Kristin Elizabeth Yarris

Kristin Elizabeth Yarris

University of Oregon

Department of International Studiestel: 541.346.1363

175 Prince Lucíen Campbell Hallskype: kyarris

Eugene, Oregon

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

2012- Assistant Professor, Department of International Studies, University of Oregon.

2012- Faculty Mentor, National Institute of Minority Health and Health Disparities Mental Health Research and Training Program. University of Southern California.

2011-12Lecturer, Department of Anthropology and Global Health Program; University of California, SanDiego.

Education

Ph.D. Anthropology. University of California, Los Angeles. 2011.

Dissertation:Living with Mother Migration: Grandmothers, Caregiving, and Children in Nicaraguan Transnational Families. Committee: Linda Garro (Chair), Nancy Levine, Carole Browner, Doug Hollan

M.A. Anthropology. University of California, Los Angeles. 2007.

M.P.H. Community Health Sciences. University of California, Los Angeles. 2004.

M.A. Latin American Studies. University of California, Los Angeles. 2004.

B.A. Sociology/Anthropology. Lewis & Clark College. 1994.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Medical and Psychological Anthropology, Transnational Migration and Transnational Family Life; Global Health and Global Mental Health; Cross-Cultural Psychology; Social and Cultural Determinants of Health; Schizophrenia and Family Caregiving; Care & Caregiving; Nicaragua, México, Latin America.

SCHOLARSHIP

Peer-Reviewed Articles and Book Chapters:

In Press. Ramírez-Stege, Alyssa and Kristin E. Yarris. Culture in La Clínica: Evaluating the Utility of the Cultural Formulation Interview in a Mexican Outpatient Setting. Transcultural Psychiatry.

2017. Yarris, Kristin E. Sacrifice or Abandonment? Nicaraguan Grandmothers’ Narratives of Migration as Kin-Work. In, Transnational Aging and Reconfigurations of Kin-Work. Parin Dossa and Cati Coe (Eds.). New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press.

2016. Mendenhall, Emily, Kristin Yarris and Brandon Kohrt. Utilization of Standardized Mental Health Assessments in Anthropological Research: Possibilities and Pitfalls. Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry. DOI 10.1007/s11013-016-9502-y.

2016. Yarris, Kristin E. and Nicolette J. Dent. Gender, Inequality and Depo-Provera: Constraints on Reproductive Choice in Nicaragua. Global Public Health. doi: 10.1080/17441692.2016.1168468.

2015. Yarris, Kristin E. Grandmothers, Children and Intergenerational Distress in Nicaraguan Transnational Families. pp. 117-134. In: Brandon Kohrt and Emily Mendenhall (Eds.) Global Mental Health: Anthropological Perspectives.Walnut Creek: Left Coast Press.

2014. Yarris, Kristin E.“Quiero ir y no quiero ir” (I want to go and I don’t want to go): Nicaraguan Children’s Ambivalent Experiences of Transnational Family Life. TheJournal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology 19(2):284-309.

2014. Yarris, Kristin E. “Pensando Mucho” (“Thinking too Much”): Embodied Distress among Grandmothers in Nicaraguan Transnational Families. Culture, Medicine & Psychiatry38(3):473-498. (Awarded the 2015 Stirling Prize by the Society for Psychological Anthropology)

2014. Yarris, Kristin, Stasiun, Jillian, Musigdilok, Visanee, & Win, Cho. Generation, Displacement and Deservedness among Karen Refugees in California. International Migration53(3):64-68.

2011. Yarris, Kristin E. The Pain of “Thinking too Much”: Dolor de Cerebro and the Embodiment ofSocial Hardship among Nicaraguan Women. Ethos 39(2): 226-248.

2009. Garro, Linda C. and Yarris, Kristin E.‘A Massive Long Way’: Interconnecting Histories, A ‘Special Child’, ADHD, and Everyday Family Life. Culture, Medicine, & Psychiatry 33:559-607.

Edited Journal Issue:

2015.Kristin E. Yarris & Heide Castañeda. Introduction, Special Issue: “Discourses of Displacement and Deservingness: Interrogating Distinctions between “Forced” and “Economic” Migration.”International Migration53(3).DOI: 10.1111/imig.12170

Book Manuscript:

In Press.Care across Generations: Solidarity and Sacrifice in Transnational Families. Stanford University Press.

Book Reviews:

2015. Blind Spot: How Neoliberalism Infiltrated Global Health. (by Salmaan Keshavjee). American Journal of Human Biology27(4).

2013. Life Within Limits: Well-Being in a World of Want (by Michael Jackson). NAFSA Review of Global Studies Literature No. 4, “Cultural Sensitivity and the Global Health Dilemma”.

Non Peer-Reviewed BlogPublications:

El impacto de la migración en tránsito por Sinaloa: Estado, organizaciones de la sociedad civil y comunidades.(With Fernando Villegas Rivera and Alma Lizárraga Ramos). Ser Migrante: the journal of Mexico’s office of the International Organization for Migration (OIM-Mexico). March-April, 2017.

Protecting Undocumented Students Post Election. (Dec. 7, 2016). (With Lauren Heidbrink and Whitney Duncan). At:

“The Stress along the Way”: Medicalization and Transit Migration. (With Heide Castañeda). Youth Circulations. (Feb. 9, 2016). At:

Encounters of Violence and Care: Central American Transit Migration through Mexico (With Heide Castañeda). Somatosphere. (Sept. 3, 2014). At:

From Alienation to Protection: Central American Child Migration. (With Heide Castañeda and Lauren Heidbrink). Access Denied: A Conversation on Unauthorized Im/migration and Health. (Sept. 4, 2014). At: accessdeniedblog.wordpress.com

Money, Love, and the Shifting Substance of Kinship in Nicaraguan Transnational Families. Published in the

April, 2012 edition of Anthropology News.

FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS & AWARDS

Extramural Grants

Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research. Principal Investigator. “Transit Migration Through Mexico’s Ruta Pacifica”. (Co-PIs: Heide Castañeda and Juan Manuel Mendoza). (2015-2016)

National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant (2009-10)

Fulbright Institute for International Education Grant (2009-10)

Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Award (2009, Declined)

Foreign Language & Area Studies Fellowships for Brazilian Portuguese (2004-05)

Intramural Grants (post-PhD)

Oregon Humanities Center Wulf Teaching Fellowship (2017)

Oregon Humanities Center Research Fellowship (2014)

UO Junior Professorship Development Award (2013)

UO Center for the Study of Women & Society; Conference Travel Grant (2013)

UCSD Non-Senate Faculty Professional Development Award (2012)

Awards

Stirling Prize, Best Published Article in Psychological Anthropology, Society for Psychological Anthropology (2015)

Richard G. Condon Prize, Best Student Paper in Psychological Anthropology, Society for Psychological Anthropology (2009)

Bixby Award for Summer Research in Population & Demography (2005)

UCLA Public Health Students Association TA of the Year Award (2002)

Lewis & Clark College Rena Ratte Award for Outstanding Woman Undergraduate (1994)

CONFERENCES (Previous Five Years)

Papers Presented

2017. Qué es lo que tengo yo? Idioms of Distress, Explanatory Models, and Cultural Formulation Interview: Insights from Nicaragua and Mexico. Society for Psychological Anthropology. New Orleans, LA.

2016. NAFTA and Schizophrenia: Mental Illness, Masculinity and the Edges of Modernity in Mexico. American Anthropological Association. Minneapolis, MN.

2015. Transnational Encounters and Relational Ontologies: Transit Migration through Sinaloa, Mexico. (With H. Castañeda). American Anthropological Association; Denver, CO.

2015. Care as Moral Practice: Feminist Ethics and Anthropologies of Care(giving). Society for Psychological Anthropology biannual meetings. Boston, MA.

2014. Culture in the Clínica: Research on the Cultural Formulation Interview in a Mexican Psychiatric Hospital. (With A. Ramirez and E. Joyner). Anthropology of Mental Health Interest Group. Washington, D.C.

2014. Between Love and Money:Grandmothers and Remittances in Nicaraguan Transnational Families. American Anthropological Association; Washington, D.C.

2014. Gender, Power, and Depo-Provera: Constraints on Reproductive Choice in Nicaragua. (With N. Dent).Society for Applied Anthropology, Albuquerque, NM.

2013. Absences, Remittances, and Grandmother Caregiving in Nicaraguan Transnational Families. American Anthropological Association; Chicago, IL.

2013. Gender, Distance & Depo-Provera: Understanding the Social Determinants of Women’s Reproductive Health in Rural Nicaragua.(With Nicolette Dent).Oregon State University International Health Conference. Corvallis, OR.

2013. Pensando Mucho (Thinking too much): Uncertainty and Distress among Grandmothers in Nicaraguan Transnational Families. Cascadia Seminar in Medical Anthropology, University of British Colombia.

2013. Quiero ir y no quiero ir (I want to go and I don’t want to go): Ambivalence in Nicaraguan Children’s Experiences of Transnational Family Life. Society for Psychological Anthropology; San Diego, CA.

2013. Where Narratives and Psychometrics (May) Meet: Challenges in Global Mental Health Research. Society for Applied Anthropology; Denver, CO.

2013. Flipping Biomedicine on its Head: Borrowed Words and Strategic Suffering. (Second author, with Emily Mendenhall). Society for Applied Anthropology; Denver, CO.

2012. Economic Desperation and Universal Protection: Nicaraguan Migration and Human Rights Advocacy. American

Anthropological Association; San Francisco, CA.

2012. “Quiero Ir y No Quiero Ir” (“I want to go and I don’t want to go”): Children’s Experiences of Uncertainty in

Nicaraguan Transnational Families. Southwest Social Sciences Association; San Diego, CA.

Panels Organized or Chaired

2015. De-Familiarizing Migration: Studies from Zones of Transit. American Anthropological Association; Denver, CO.

2015. Anthropological Engagements in Global Mental Health (with Whitney Duncan). American Anthropological Association; Denver, CO.

2015. Politics and Health of Migrants in Central America, Mexico, and the U.S. Western Regional International Health Conference. Eugene, Oregon.

2014. The Cultural Economies of Migration: Money, Debt, and Transnational Networks. American Anthropological Association; Washington, D.C.

2013. Living with Parent Migration: Consequences for and Interventions with Children. Society for Psychological Anthropology & Anthropology of Youth and Children Interest Group; San Diego, CA.

2013. Talking Across Disciplines: Anthropological and Psychological Research with Latino/a Families and Children. Society for Psychological Anthropology; San Diego, CA.

2012. Economic Migration and the Undeserving Subject: Interrogating the distinction between ‘voluntary’ and ‘forced’

migration. American Anthropological Association; San Francisco, CA.

2011. Moral Economies of Care: Legacies of Difference, inequality, and transformation in 21st century caregiving

configurations. American Anthropological Association; Montréal, Quebec.

Panel Discussant

2017. Why Should we Care? Subjectivities, Structures, and Moralities of Care. Society for Psychological Anthropology. New Orleans, LA.

2016. Migration and Care: Evidence or Accident? American Anthropological Association, Minneapolis, MN.

2014. Witchcraft and PTSD: Where the Sacred Meets the Psychiatric in Nepal. Society for Applied Anthropology, Albuquerque, NM.

2013. Strategic Engagements with Academic Histories: Ethical Methodological Choices to Shift Negative Representations. American Anthropological Association; Chicago, IL.

INVITED LECTURES

2016. “Nicaraguan Migration and Intergenerational Impacts on Families”. Pacific University School of Social Work. Eugene, Oregon.

2015. “Pensando Mucho”: Migración y sus impactos en las abuelas cuidadoras en Nicaragua. Congreso Internacional de Psicología. University of the Americas Puebla, México.

2015. Grandmothers and Caregiving in Nicaraguan Transnational Families. University of Oregon – Institute for Lifelong Learning. Eugene, Oregon.

2015. Nicaraguan Migration, Transnational Families, and Grandmothers. Oregon State University – Academy for Lifelong Learning. Corvallis, Oregon.

2013. Quiero ir y no quiero ir: Vida transnacional y experiencias ambivalentes entre niños Nicaragüenses. Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa, Mazatlán, México.

2013. Nicaraguan Children’s Experiences of Mother Migration and Transnational Family Life. Colloquium Talk. UO Department of Anthropology.

2012. Anthropological Research Methods: Theory and Practice. Instituto Nacional de Psiquiatría; México, D.F.

2012. “Pensando Mucho” (“Thinking too much”): Uncertain Futures and Grandmothers’ Emotional Distress in Nicaraguan Transnational Families. Psychodynamic Seminar; UCSD Department of Anthropology.

Professional ACTIVITIES

Manuscript Reviewer: American Ethnologist; Anthropological Quarterly;BMC Public Health; Culture, Medicine & Psychiatry; Ethos: The Journal of the Society for Psychological Anthropology;Global Public Health; Medical Anthropology, Medical Anthropology Quarterly; Social Science & Medicine;The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology; The Journal of Migration, Health, and Social Care; Routledge Perspectives on Development Series; University of California Press; Vanderbilt University Press.

Proposal Reviewer:National Science Foundation, Cultural Anthropology Program.

Invited Judge: Society for Psychological Anthropology Condon Prize (2013-2016); Society for Medical Anthropology; Critical Anthropology for Global Health Interest Group, Rudolf Virchow Award (2012).

Member: American Anthropological Association, Society for Latin American & Caribbean Anthropology, Society for Medical Anthropology, Society for Psychological Anthropology.

DEPARTMENT UNIVERSITY SERVICE

UO Center for Global Health, Co-Director (2015-present)

UO Dreamers Working Group, Member. (2015-present)

Center for the Study of Women & Society, Narrative, Health & Social Justice Research Interest Group, Co-Organizer (2013-present)

UO Center for Latino/a and Latin American Studies, Executive Board Member (2012-present)

UO Latin American Studies Program, Advisory Committee Member (2013-14)

COURSES Taught & Prepared to Teach

Global Health & Development; Migrant & Refugee Health; Global Reproductive Health; Gender, Family, and Transnational Migration; Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Health & Illness; Introduction to Psychological Anthropology; Global Mental Health; Population Displacement & Global Health; Latin American Communities; Mixed-Methods Research; Medical Spanish.

Languages: Spanish (fluent); Portuguese (intermediate fluency); French (coursework)

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