CURRICULUM VITAE
Sarah Bronwen Horton
Department of Anthropology
Campus Box 103
University of Colorado, Denver
PO Box 173664
Denver, CO 80217-3364
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FIELDS OF SPECIALIZATION
TOPICAL & THEORETICAL: Critical Medical Anthropology; Ethnography of U.S. Public Health Care System; Governance & Health Citizenship; Nationalism; Globalization, Migration, & Transnationalism; Latino Studies; Families & Childhood
REGIONAL: US; Southwest(New Mexico and California); Mexico
EDUCATION
2003-5 National Institute of Mental Health Postdoctoral Fellowship, Department of Social Medicine, Harvard University
2003 Ph.D., University of New Mexico, Department of Anthropology, Albuquerque, with Distinction.
1996 M.A., Anthropology, Columbia University, New York City, NY.
1992 B.A., Literature & Society, Brown University, Providence, RI.
Magna cum laude, Honors, Phi Beta Kappa 1991-2.
POSITIONS HELD
2014- Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Colorado, Denver
2008-14 Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Colorado, Denver
2006-8 Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Montana; affiliated faculty in the School of Public and Community Health Sciences
2005-7 Research Faculty (Associate Specialist III), Department of Anthropology, History, & Social Medicine and Department of Preventive & Restorative Dentistry, University of California-San Francisco.
FELLOWSHIPS & AWARDS
2011 Steven J. Polgar Prize for Best Article in Medical Anthropology Quarterly in 2010, Society for Medical Anthropology, American Anthropological Association
2010 Richard Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship, Wenner Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research. $20,000 for write-up of Medical Entrepreneurs: Middle Class Americans in the Medical Borderlands.
2009 Second Runner-Up, University of California Press Competition in Public Anthropology. Manuscript proposal: Rx Tourism: Middle Class Americans in the Medical Borderlands. (Out of 89 submissions)
2009 Guest Scholar, Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, University of California, San Diego. November 2009-January 2010.
2008 First Runner-Up, University of California Press Competition in Public Anthropology. Manuscript proposal: Black Market Medicine: Health Care in the Shadows of Globalization. (Out of 189 submissions)
2008 Hedgebrook Writer-in-Residence Fellowship, Hedgebrook Writer’s Retreat, Whidbey Island, WA. (A funded writer-in-residency retreat for women writers).
2006 Fourth Annual Summer Institute on International Migration, Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, University of California-San Diego (a collaborative project with the Social Science Research Council)
2003 Ph.D. with Distinction, Department of Anthropology, University of New Mexico
2002 Rudolf Virchow Graduate Student Prize, Critical Anthropology of Health, Society for Medical Anthropology, American Anthropological Association
2001 Dean’s Dissertation Fellowship, Office of Graduate Studies, UNM
2000 New Mexico Folklore Scholars’ Award, UNM
1999 Social Science Research Council Sexuality Research Fellowship alternate
1999 Arizona Archaeological and Historical Society Scholarship for Graduate Study
1998 Karl Schwerin Dissertation Fellowship, Department of Anthropology, UNM
1997-9 Graduate Study Fellowship, American Association of University Women
1995-6 President's Fellow, Department of Anthropology, Columbia University
1995 Columbia University’s Scheps Award to fund preliminary research on immigration narratives among Mexican immigrants in New Mexico.
1991-2 Phi Beta Kappa, Brown University
FIELD RESEARCH
2012-14 Ethnographer, Department of Anthropology, University of Colorado, Denver. “Identity Loan and the Suppression of Farmworkers’ Workers’ Compensation Claims.”
Supervised two MA students conducting phone interviews with workers’ compensation attorneys in California’s Central Valley about the way “identity loan” affects farmworkers’ eligibility for workers’ compensation insurance.
2011-12 Ethnographer, Department of Anthropology, University of Colorado, Denver. “Fraudulent Work Authorization Documents and the Suppression of Farmworkers’ Workers’ Compensation Claims.”
Conducted two months of ethnographic research and interviews with 16 migrant farmworkers on the obstacles to their use of workers’ compensation insurance.
2010-11Ethnographer, Department of Anthropology, University of Colorado, Denver. “The Cross-Border Insurance Industry.”
Conducted one month of ethnographic fieldwork and interviews with 15 Mexican immigrants on their pursuit of cross-border health care.
2009-10Ethnographer, Department of Anthropology, University of Colorado, Denver. “Medical Travel and the Health Care ‘Gray Market’ on the US-Mexico Border.”
Conducted two month of ethnographic fieldwork and interviews with 10 Anglo-Americans and 24 Mexican immigrants on their pursuit of cross-border health care.
2009 Ethnographer, Department of Anthropology, University of Colorado, Denver. “Medical Travel and the Health Care ‘Gray Market’ on the US-Mexico Border.”
Conducted nine months of ethnographic fieldwork and interviews with over 50 US medical travelers on their pursuit of cross-border health care.
2008 Ethnographer, Department of Anthropology, University of Montana. “Transnational Health Care Seeking among Mexican Immigrant Families in California’s Central Valley.” Conducted four months of ethnographic fieldwork and interviews with 25 Mexican immigrant families on how they meet their health care needs.
2006-7 Co-Investigator & Ethnographer, Department of Anthropology, History, & Social Medicine, University of California-San Francisco. “California’s Dental Public Health Care System: Contributing to Oral Health Disparities among Latino Children,” Judith Barker, PI.
Funded through the University of California Institute for US-Mexico Studies. CA.
Supervised research team on the effect of public dental health policy on dental practices in rural and urban California.
2005-6 Ethnographer, Department of Anthropology, History, & Social Medicine and Department of Preventive & Restorative Dentistry, University of California-San Francisco. “Hispanic Oral Health: A Rural and Urban Ethnography,” Judith Barker, PI.
Funded through the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research. Mendota, CA.
Conducted nine months of ethnography on health care safety net and Mexican American beliefs and practices regarding children’s oral health.
2005 Ethnographer, Department of Social Medicine, Harvard University. “The Mental Health
Correlates of Family Separation for Salvadoran Immigrants.” Cambridge, MA.
Conducted interviews with Salvadoran immigrant adults about their experiences coping
with their immobility and separation from their children while living in the US.
2004 Ethnographer, Department of Social Medicine, Harvard University. “The Culture of
Medicine and Health Disparities,” Mary-Jo Good, PI. Funded by the Russell Sage Foundation. Cambridge, MA.
Conducted interviews with Latino mental health clinicians on how the “culture of medicine” translates into disparities in health care at a Latino mental health clinic.
2003 Ethnographer, The Religion in Immigration Project, funded through the Pew Charitable Trust, University of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA.
Conducted research on the appeal of Catholic Charismatic belief among Salvadoran and Mexican immigrants, and on the transnationalization of faith.
2001-2 Research Fellow, Program for the Analysis of Religion Among Latinos, City University of New York—Brooklyn. “Religion Among the New Immigrants.” Santa Fe, NM.
Conducted ethnographic study of the integration of Mexican immigrants in a traditionally
Hispano New Mexican parish in Santa Fe.
2000-1 Dissertation Fieldwork on the Santa Fe Fiesta. Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Conducted intensive fieldwork with groups organizing the Santa Fe Fiesta on the origin and elaboration of the event as an expression of cultural nationalism among Hispanos.
1997-9 Researcher, Ethnological Team, Medicaid/Managed Care Project, Department of
Anthropology, UNM. Louise Lamphere and Howard Waitzkin, PIs.
Conducted intensive fieldwork on effects of Medicaid Managed Care on community health clinics and on Hispanos’ access to care in rural and urban New Mexico.
RESEARCH GRANTS
2014 Research Program on Migration and Health. University of California, Health Initiative of the Americas. To conduct research for the proposal,. “Health and Migration on Mexico’s Southern Border.” $4,517 (Academic Participant).
2012 Center for Faculty Development. University of Colorado, Denver. To conduct research for proposal, “Fraudulent Work Authorization Documents and the Suppression of Farmworkers’ Workers’ Compensation Claims.” $2000
2010 CLAS Research Innovation Seed Program grants, Center for Faculty Development, University of Colorado, Denver. To conduct research for proposal, “The Cross-Border Health Insurance Industry.” $5000.
2010 YUMPS Travel Award, Center for Faculty Development, University of Colorado, Denver.
For travel to present a paper at the annual meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology, $750.
2009 Dean’s Award for Excellence, University of Colorado, Denver.
Funds to hire student to create employment and internship database for students in MA concentration in medical anthropology.
2009 YUMPS Travel Award, Center for Faculty Development, University of Colorado, Denver.
For travel to present a paper at the annual meeting of the American Anthropology
Association, $500.
2009 Faculty Development Grant, Center for Faculty Development, University of Colorado,
Denver. To conduct research for proposal, “Medical Tourism on the U.S.-Mexico Border
and the Health Care Grey Market,” $5000.
2009 Faculty Research & Scholarship Contingency Fund, Center for Faculty Development,
University of Colorado, Denver. To offset expense of printing photographs in book, The
Santa Fe Fiesta, Reinvented. $500.
2009 Faculty Dissemination Grant, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, University of Colorado
Denver. To offset expense of subvention for book, The Santa Fe Fiesta, Reinvented. $2000
2008 YUMPS Travel Award, Center for Faculty Development, University of Colorado, Denver.
For travel to present a paper at the Society for Applied Anthropology Conference, $475.
2007 Consultant, “Latinos’ Water Consumption Beliefs and Behaviors.” Funded through the
National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, National Institutes of Health.
Co-wrote and will carry out research on extension grant on Latinos’ tap water avoidance and acceptability of fluoride delivery mechanisms in urban and rural California.
2006 Co-Investigator, “California’s Public Dental Health Insurance Program: Creating
Disparities in Oral Health Care for Disadvantaged Latino Children,” with Judith Barker, PI. Funded through the University of California Institute for Mexico and the United States, Riverside, CA. $15,000.
Co-wrote, directed, and supervised small research grant on the role of California state oral health policy in exacerbating oral health disparities among low-income Latino children.
2005 Collaborator, “Cultural Citizenship and Health Disparities,” Mary-Jo Good, PI. Funded through the Russell Sage Foundation, Cambridge, MA.
Helped design grant on mental health professionals’ role in educating new Latino immigrants in a Latino mental health clinic about their place in the U.S.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS
Under Contract “They Leave Their Kidneys in the Fields:” Injury, Illness, and “Illegality” in California’s Central Valley. Book manuscript under contract with the University of California Press’ Series in Public Anthropology.
2010 The Santa Fe Fiesta, Re-Invented: Staking Ethno-Nationalist Claims to a
Disappearing Homeland. School for Advanced Research Press (formerly “School for American Research Press”).
REFEREED JOURNALS
2014 “Critical Anthropology of Global Health ‘Takes a Stand’ Statement: A Critical Medical Anthropological Approach to the US’ Affordable Care Act.” Medical Anthropology Quarterly 28(1):1-22. First author, with Cesar Abadia, Jessica Mulligan, and Jennifer Jo Thompson.
2013 “Medical Returns as Class Transformation: Situating Mexican Migrants’ Medical Returns within a Framework of Transnationalism.” Medical Anthropology.
2012 “Reasons for Self-Medication and Perceptions of Risk among Mexican American Farmworkers.” First author, with Analisia Stewart. Journal of Immigrant Health. 14(4):664-72.
2011 “Everything I Thought They Were, They Weren’t: Family Systems as Support and Impediment to Recovery.” Second author, with Elizabeth England Kennedy, first author. Social Science & Medicine 73(8):1222-1229.
2011 “Medical Returns: Seeking Health Care in Mexico.” First author, with Stephanie Cole. Social Science & Medicine 72(11): 1846-1852.
2010 “A Latino Oral Health Paradox? Using Ethnography to Specify the Factors that Contribute to Immigrant Children’s Poorer Oral Health.” First author, with Judith C. Barker. National Association of Practicing Anthropologists Bulletin 34(1):68-83. Special issue on Anthropological Perspectives on Migration and Health.
2010 “Stigmatized Biologies: Examining the Cumulative Effects of Oral Health Disparities for Mexican American Children.” First author, with Judith C. Barker. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 24(2): 199-219.
2009 “Stains on Their Self-Discipline: Public Health, Hygiene, and the Disciplining of Undocumented Immigrant Parents in the Nation’s Internal Borderlands.” American Ethnologist 36(4): 784-98. First author, with Judith C. Barker.
2009 “Mexican Immigrant Parents’ Interpretation of Children’s Dental Symptoms in California’s Central Valley.” First author, with Judith C. Barker. Community Dental Health 26 (4): 216-221.
2009 “Embodied Inequalities: Oral Health and Social Stigma among Farrmworker Young Adults.” Revista Palimpsestus 6 (In Spanish).Special issue on Ethics, Capitalism, Health. First author, with Judith C. Barker.
2009 “A Mother’s Heart is Weighed Down with Stones: A Phenomenological Approach to the Experience of Transnational Motherhood.” Culture, Medicine & Psychiatry. 33(1): 21-40.
2008 “Consuming Childhood: ‘Lost’ and ‘Ideal’ Childhoods as a Motivation for Migration.” Anthropological Quarterly 81(4): 893-912.
2008 “An Ethnographic Study of Latino Preschool Children’s Oral Health in Rural California: Intersections among Family, Community, Provider and Regulatory Sectors.” BMC Oral Health 8(8). Judith C. Barker, first author.
2008 “Rural Latino Immigrant Parents’ Conceptions of Oral Disease.” First author, with Judith C. Barker. Journal of Public Health Dentistry 68(1): 22-29.
2007 “Towards an Ethnography of the Uninsured: Gay Becker’s Work in Progress.” Medical Anthropology 26 (4): 293-298.
2006 “The Double Burden on Safety Net Providers: Placing Health Disparities in the Context of the Privatization of U.S. Health Care.” Social Science & Medicine 63(10): 2702-2714.
2005 “Los Inmigrantes Cubanos y Mexicanos en el Sistema de Salud Pública de los Estados Unidos.” Revista Colombiana de Antropología 40: 61-84. Special Issue: Anthropological Perspectives on Public Health.
2004 “Different Subjects: The Health Care System’s Participation in the Differential Construction of the Cultural Citizenship of Cuban Refugees and Mexican Immigrants.” Medical Anthropology Quarterly 18(4): 472-489.
2002 “New Mexico’s Cuarto Centenario and Spanish American Nationalism: Collapsing
Past Glory and Present Dispossession.” Journal of the Southwest 44(1): 49-60.
2001 “Transforming the Safety Net: Responses to Medicaid managed care in Rural and Urban New Mexico. “ American Anthropologist 101(3): 733-746. First author, with Joanne McCloskey, Caroline Todd, and Marta Henriksen.
2001 “Where is the ‘Mexican’ in ‘New Mexican’?: Enacting History, Enacting
Dominance in the Santa Fe Fiestas.” The Public Historian: Special Issue on Latino Public History 23(4): 41-54
EDITED COLLECTIONS
2014 “Debating ‘Medical Citizenship:’ Policies Shaping Undocumented Immigrants’ Learned Avoidance of the Health Care System,” pp. 297-320 in Hidden Lives and Human Rights in the United States: Understanding the Controversies and Tragedies in Undocumented Immigration, Lois A. Lorentzen, ed. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO/Praeger.
2009 “The Latino ‘Spring Time’ of the Catholic Church: Lay Religious Networks and
Transnationalism from Below at St. Anne’s Parish,” chapter in Religion at the Corner of Bliss and Nirvana: Politics, Identity, and Faith in New Migrant Communities. Duke University Press. Lois Lorentzen and Joaquin Gonzalez,
editors.
2007 “Ritual and Return: Diasporic Hispanos and the Santa Fe Fiesta,” pp. 187-206 in Expressing New Mexico: Nuevomexicano Creativity, Ritual, and Memory. Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press. Phillip B. Gonzales, editor.