Teaching

Undergraduate/Graduate University Students:

  • Introduction to Anthropology (Anthropology, /The University of Alabama)
  • Research Methods in Anthropology (Anthropology, The University of Alabama)
  • Medical Anthropology (Anthropology, The University of Alabama)
  • Contemporary Issues in Medicine (Community Health Sciences, The University of Alabama)
  • Basic Epidemiology (Community Health Sciences, The University of Alabama)
  • Latin American Studies Seminar: Brazil (Latin American Studies, The University of Alabama)
  • Special Topics in Medical Behavioral Science (Community Health Sciences, The University of Alabama)
  • Evaluative Research (School of Social Work, The University of Alabama)
  • Doctoral Research Practicum (School of Social Work, The University of Alabama)
  • Africans in the Americas (Anthropology, The University of Alabama)
  • Culture, Health and Healing (Anthropology, The University of Alabama)
  • Cognitive Anthropology (Anthropology, The University of Alabama)
  • Measurement and Data Analysis in Social Work (Social Work, The University of Alabama)
  • The Concept of Culture (School of Social Work, The University of Alabama)
  • Multivariate Data Analysis (Anthropology, The University of Alabama)
  • Writing Successful Proposals (School of Social Work, The University of Alabama)
  • Anthropology and Epidemiology (Anthropology, The University of Alabama)
  • Antropologia Cognitiva (Psicologia, Universidade de São Paulo)

Continuing Education:

  • Short Courses in Research Methods: Social Survey Research in Anthropology (2006)
  • Demystifying SPSS (Workshop, Society for Applied Anthropology, 2007)
  • Short Courses in Research Methods:
  • Social Survey Research in Anthropology (2007)
  • Demystifying SPSS (Workshop, American Anthropological Association, 2007)

​Medical Students:

  • Longitudinal Primary Care Clerkship (Course master, 1980-1982): responsible for coordinating curriculum; planning and operation; teaching responsibilities: behavioral factors in disease, culture and health, social support systems, clinical social science)
  • Internal Medicine Clerkship (participate in conferences and teaching rounds)
  • Psychiatry Clerkship (participate in conferences)
  • Pediatrics Clerkship (participate in conferences and teaching rounds)
  • Family/Community Medicine Clerkship (supervise students in the community)
  • Rural/Community Medicine (supervise students in the community) 

​Family Practice Residency:

  • First Year Resident Conferences (participant in teaching various topics on the family and health)
  • Continuing Medical Education (Noon Conferences):
  • The Genetics of Hypertension
  • Behavioral Factors in the Management and Treatment of Hypertension
  • Adaptation to Coronary Artery Disease
  • Social Support and Health Stress and Heart Disease
  • Sociocultural Factors in Obesity
  • Current Research at CCHS 

​​​ Areas of Teaching Interest:

  • Medical Anthropology, Research Methods, Culture Theory, Latin American Societies, Social Stratification, Ethnicity and Disease, Social Stress.