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Recent Visiting Scholars in the Global Health Studies Program

Dr. Harish Naraindas(visitor 2004-present)
Dr. Naraindas has been associated with Global Health Studies for the last two years and has both a field methods course and a seminar on bioterrorism at Iowa. He is regularly an Assistant Professor at the Centre for the Study of Social Systems of Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi.
E-Mail: harish-naraindas@uiowa.edu

Dr. Maria Tapias (2004-present)
Dr. Tapias, an assistant professor of anthropology at Grinnell College, has been associated with Global Health Studies since the fall of 2004 when she taught the Global Health Seminar. Dr. Tapias’ earned her PhD in cultural anthropology at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign (2001) and her B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College in New York (1988).

Her main interests are in medical anthropology, gender and health, personhood and the anthropology of emotions. Her fieldwork was conducted in Punata, Bolivia from 1996 to 1998 during which time she worked with bi-lingual Quechua and Spanish speakers on local conceptions of health. Her research examines how illnesses of different severity are understood in Punata and how people link their maladies to particular emotions.
E-mail: tapias@grinnel.edu

Dr. Meredith Gooding (visitor 2001-03)
Dr. Gooding (Gooding-Lassiter since 2004)) is currently an assistant professor of biology at Winona State University in Wisconsin. Her research is focused on the effects of contaminants on aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems, and she has extensive research experience in Chile and Latin America. Dr. Gooding taught the Global Health Seminar for one semesters in 2003.
E-Mail: mgooding@winona.edu

Dr. Roger Sullivan (visitor 2000-2002)
Dr. Sullivan’s main academic interest is neo-Darwinian theory of human behavior and, specifically, the evolution of behavioral disorders. His research is focused on two manifestations of behavioral disorder: schizophrenia and drug use. Dr. Sullivan’s current research project is a two-year longitudinal study of factors affecting the expression of schizophrenia in the western Pacific and is funded by the Stanley Medical Research Institute.Dr. Sullivan received his PhD from the University of Auckland, New Zealand, in 2001. He subsequently completed a post-doc at the University of Iowa’s Global Health Studies Program before commencing as an assistant professor at CSUS in 2003. Please proceed to Dr. Sullivan’s institutional and personal webpage at the Department of Anthropology, California State University Sacramento for further details about his research.
E-mail: sullivar@csus.edu
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