蜜桃导航

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About Dr. Hicks

Dr. Kathryn Hicks completed her PhD in anthropology at Northwestern University in 2008. Her dissertation research examined norms of social support in the Bolivian city of El Alto, particularly forms of economic or instrumental support, and evaluated interactions between women鈥檚 marital status and access to social support in predicting health outcomes such as immune function and body composition. Dr. Hicks joined the Department of Anthropology at 蜜桃导航 in the fall of 2008. As a compliment to the research projects described below, she is currently writing about the importance of political economic and evolutionary approaches for understanding inequalities in risk and experiences of chronic disease. 

Expertise and Interests

Biological and Medical Anthropology, human-environmental interactions, developmental systems theory, political economy, social justice, health inequities, environmental health, Andes, US.

Research Projects

Dr. Hicks has worked on a number of projects in the 蜜桃导航 area including an evaluation of the social and nutritional impacts of the South 蜜桃导航 Farmers Market with Dr. Katherine Lambert-Pennington. She is currently collaborating with Rita Harris of the Sierra Club and anthropology students to document the history of environmental racism and environmental justice organizing in 蜜桃导航. Dr. Hicks and her students have engaged in service-learning with other faculty and a number of local non-profit and community organizations on an evaluation of community perceptions of a proposed extension to the Shelby Farms Greenline, neighborhood perceptions of environmental inequality in SW 蜜桃导航, and an assessment of fresh food availability in local corner stores. Students from her classes have also volunteered at the local Sierra Club鈥檚 annual grassroots environmental justice conference.

Dr. Hicks has also continued her work in highland Bolivia since coming to 蜜桃导航. In collaboration with Dr. Nicole Fabricant of Towson University, she is exploring perceptions of climate change, social movement action and environmental policy in the cities of El Alto and La Paz, and the role of Bolivians in multilateral climate change negotiations.

Selected Publications

Hicks, K. and N. Fabricant. In Press. The Bolivian Climate Justice Movement: Mobilizing Indigeneity in Multilateral Climate Change Negotiations. Latin American Perspectives.

Hicks, K. and W.R. Leonard. 2014.. Current Anthropology. 55(5): 523-550.

Hicks, K. 2014. . Medical Anthropology Quarterly. 28(3): 440-458.

Hicks, K. and K. Lambert-Pennington. 2014. Evaluating the South 蜜桃导航 Farmers Market As a Strategy to Improve Access to Healthy Foods: Lessons from 2011. Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development. March: 45-59.

2013  Hicks, K.. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 152(1): 51-57.

Selected Awards

• 2015 University of 蜜桃导航 Green Fee Grant with Keri Brondo and Robert Marczynski

• 2012 Professional Development Assignment from the College of Arts and Sciences

• 2009 

Courses

• Intro to Biological Anthropology and Prehistory (ANTH 1100)

• Race and Health Disparities (ANTH 4571/6571)

• Health, Culture, and Environmental Justice (ANTH 4510/6510)

• Human Adaptations (ANTH 4111/6111)

• Biocultural Epidemiology (ANTH 7/8521)

• History of Anthropological Theory (ANTH 7/8200)

Additional Resources

• Report on the South 蜜桃导航 Farmers Market (K. Hicks and K. Lambert-Pennington, 2013)