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RESEARCH INTERESTS: Medical Anthropology, History of Medicine, Maternal and Child Health, HIV/AIDS, History of Public Health, Health Services Research, Program Evaluation Studies
AREAS OF FIELDWORK: United States, Ireland, Ecuador and Costa Rica
Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York
Ph.D. Cultural Anthropology 2006
Dissertation Title: “WIC and its Metaphors: Urban Risk, Motherhood, and the Strategic Use of a
Public Health Program.”
M.A. Cultural Anthropology
1998
Graduate Certificate in Women’s Studies, Women’s Studies Program
Master’s Thesis: “A Room Without A View: Breastfeeding Discourses and Irish Women’s Changing World.”
State University of New York at Oswego, Oswego, New York
B.A. Anthropology (Magna cum laude) 1990
Minor Study: French
Certificate in University Teaching. Future Professoriate Program, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York. (2006)
Intensive Spanish Language Training. Centro de Estudios Interamericanos (CEDEI), Cuenca, Ecuador. (August 1999-October 1999)
Epidemiology Training Course. Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia. (1997)
Certificate in French. Université de Neuchatel, Neuchatel, Switzerland. (1988)
Research Associate and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Gender Studies. Whitman College. Walla Walla, Washington.
Instructor of Anthropology. Walla Walla Community College. Walla Walla, Washington.
Executive Director and HIV/AIDS Prevention Services Coordinator July 2003 – July 2007
Blue Mountain Heart to Heart. Walla Walla, Washington
Programs Manager and Executive Director of non-profit HIV/AIDS/Hep C services agency in southeastern Washington State funded through State Omnibus and Federal Ryan White Program dollars. Responsible for grant writing, program evaluation and reporting, fiscal management, newsletter publishing, supervision of 5 staff members and 3-5 volunteers, working with a 12-member Board of Directors, participating in and assuming leadership positions on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention State and Regional HIV/AIDS Planning Groups and Ryan White Program Consortium, coordinating and conducting HIV prevention education, Latino outreach, client advocacy (i.e., direct client services to persons living with HIV or AIDS), and HIV and Hepatitis C counseling and testing. Collaborated with state and national epidemiologists and public health administrators to link clients to medical, housing, legal, nutritional, and psychosocial services.
Visiting Research Scholar/Project Manager May 2002 – June 2003
Institute for Health Services Research and Policy, School of Public Health. University of Illinois at Chicago
Project manager of a HRSA-funded smoking cessation intervention project in Chicago and throughout the state of Illinois. Responsible for data collection, analysis, and reporting. Supervised the work of four MPH research assistants and traveled across the state to coordinate project activities with directors of maternal and child health clinics.
Research Associate March 1998 – October 2000
University of Rochester Department of Community and Preventive Medicine, Division of Public Health Practice
Evaluator of the Syracuse Healthy Start Project (an infant mortality prevention program). Ethnographer for the LINCOS Project, a coordinated effort with MIT, the Technical Institute of Costa Rica, and the Organization for Sustainable Development of Costa Rica to introduce computer technologies and telemedicine sites throughout Costa Rica. Project assistant to a CDC/ATPM-funded Maternal and Child Health Analytic Training Program (8-month-long Internet-based distance learning program) for New York State public health and community agency staff. Project assistant to a NIH-funded, Costa Rica–U.S. Training Program in Community Health Informatics (“InfoComm”). Focus group analyst on two projects sponsored by the Monroe County Department of Social Services: 1) Child Abuse/Child Neglect Formative Research Initiative; and, 2) WIC Program Assessment. Participated in focus group protocol development, focus group administration, and focus group analysis.
Graduate Fellow October 1997 – February 1999
Onondaga County Health Department, Syracuse, New York
Assistant to the Project Director for the Syracuse Healthy Start Program. Coordinated in-service education to area providers on breastfeeding, smoking cessation, and low literacy. Organized a community education and counselor training program on breastfeeding, taught breastfeeding awareness seminars for healthcare providers, and created a Syracuse University-community forum on breastfeeding. Collaborated with local United Way’s Success By Six Program to prepare SIDS prevention campaign. Prepared infant death reports for the County Child Death Review Board, and co-wrote a social risk screening tool to be used by public health nurses during home visits with pregnant and post partum women.
Graduate Assistant 1999 and 2001
Global Affairs Institute, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University
Worked with a multidisciplinary team to develop a program of study in gender and globalization. Conducted a 3-month study of a migrant sending community in southern Ecuador. Assisted in the development and writing of a grant proposal to the Rockefeller Foundation Humanities Fellowship Program
Vice President February 1994 – June 1996
Prolac, Inc., Skaneateles, New York
Co-inventor of product for breastfeeding women. Completed two years of research and development to acquire FDA product certification prior to establishing business in February 1994. Lead public relations, marketing, sales and distribution, local television health cast presentations, medical conference presentations, and trade show presentations. Contributed to development of research design for clinical testing at Beth Israel Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Gender Studies Fall 2004 – present
Research Associate, Department of Anthropology
Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA
Instructor of Anthropology Fall 2006
Walla Walla College, College Place, WA
Instructor of Anthropology and Women’s Studies Fall 2003 & present
Walla Walla Community College, Walla Walla, WA
Instructor of Epidemiology Fall 1998
State University of New York Health Science Center, College of Health Professions, Syracuse, New York
Part-time Instructor of Anthropology and Teaching Associate Spring 1995 – Spring 2002
Syracuse University, University College, Syracuse, New York
Awards: Outstanding Teaching Associate, Spring 1997. Graduate School, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY.
| Teaching Competencies: | cultural anthropology | gender studies | |
| medical anthropology | applied anthropology | ||
| global encounters | epidemiology | ||
| gender & health | healthcare policy | ||
| human evolution | qualitative method |
Community Co-Chair, HIV/AIDS Regional Planning Group (January 2006-September 2007). Spokane, WA.
Regional Representative, HIV/AIDS State Planning Group (January 2006-July 2007). Seattle, WA.
Board President, Palouse Community School (2005-present). Walla Walla, WA.
Steering Committee, Walla Walla County Mobilization for Action through Planning and Process.
Meth Coalition, Walla Walla County Health Department (2003-2007). Walla Walla, WA.
Volunteer Committee, Syracuse Mobile Health Van (1999). Neighborhood canvassing/education on mobile health van services and the Syracuse WIC Program.
Health Consortium, Syracuse Health Start Project (1998-1999). Member of community consortium for infant mortality prevention.
Child Fatality Review Committee, Syracuse Healthy Start Project (1997-1998). Review and summarize child death files for Death Review Committee.
Breastfeeding Working Group, Syracuse Healthy Start Project (1997-1998). Participant in group and coordinated community education activities.
Child Care Worker, Vera House Domestic Violence Shelter (1991). Part-time provider for the children of women who were in residence at a Syracuse domestic violence shelter.
R.A. Rubinstein, S. Scrimshaw, S. Morrissey. 1999. “Classification and Process in Sociomedical Understanding: Toward a Multilevel View of Sociomedical Methodology,” Handbook of Social Studies in Health and Medicine, G. Albrecht, R. Fitzpatrick, and S. Scrimshaw, (eds.). London: Sage.
T. Dye, S. Morrissey, M. Wojtowycz, J. Quade, R. Aubry. 1999. “Women’s willingness to share information and participate in prenatal care systems.” Society for Epidemiologic Research Annual Conference, Baltimore, MD. American Journal of Epidemiology 149: S40.
S. Morrissey. “Choosing WIC: A Study of When and How Women Use the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC) in Syracuse, New York.” Submitted to the Onondaga County Health Department and the Syracuse WIC Program. (In preparation.)
T. Dye, S. Morrissey. 1998, 1999, 2000. “Syracuse Healthy Start Annual Evaluation Report.” Submitted to Project Directors and the Health Resources and Services Administration.
T. Dye, A. Dozier, N. Chin, S. Morrissey, K. Hood, B. Suter, J. Duckett. 2000. “Monroe County Child Abuse/Child Neglect Formative Research Initiative Report.” Submitted to the Monroe County Department of Social Services.
A. Dozier, N. Chin, S. Morrissey. 2000. “Monroe County Health Department WIC Focus Group Report.” Submitted to the Monroe County Health Department.
T.Dye and S. Morrissey. May 2000. “Final Report: Proposal to Develop the Rochester-Belfast Maternal and Child Health Research Collaborative (RB-MCHC).” Submitted to the Burroughs Wellcome Fund Travel Grant Program.
T. Dye, J. Goepp, D. Fernandez, S. Morrissey, et al. 1999. “Report on the Rapid Ethnographic Assessment of rural Costa Rica.” Submitted to the LINCOS Project and the Costa Rican Foundation for Sustainable Development.
Works Submitted and in Preparation
C. Manfredi, S. Morrissey, C. LeHew. “Whose Responsibility Is It?: Using Process Evaluation to Explore Implementation of a Smoking Cessation Project.” Evaluation and the Health Professions. (In preparation.)
S. Morrissey. “A Matter of ‘Peace of Mind’: DNA Paternity Testing and Shifting Images of Fatherhood on the United States.” City & Society. (Solicited and in preparation.)
S. Morrissey. “Food versus Healthcare: Culture and Disparate Metaphors of the WIC Program in Syracuse, New York.” Medical Anthropology Quarterly. (In preparation.)
C. Chapman and S. Morrissey. 2007 “The Face of AIDS: Using Life Histories in Prevention Education.” Paper presentation at the Society of Applied Anthropology Meetings, Tampa, FL, March 28 – 31.
S. Morrissey. 2006 “HIV in Corrections: America’s dirty little secret.” Presentation at the annual Washington State Agriculture and Forestry Leadership Program, Crime and Punishment Seminar, Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA, November 9 – 10.
S. Morrissey. 2006 Panel participation in recognition of the 3rd anniversary of Roe v. Wade at Whitman ollege, “The Politicalization of Reproductive Health Care” sponsored by Voices for Planned Parenthood and Blue Mountain NOW.
S. Morrissey. 2003 “If They Aren’t a Problem Then How Do We Study Them?: The Resiliency of Single Mothers in Urban America and What Public Health Providers Should Know.” Paper presentation at the Society of Applied Anthropology Meetings, Portland, OR, March 19 – 23.
S. Morrissey and C. Manfredi. 2003 “Using Process Evaluation to Explore the Implementation of a Smoking Cessation Project.” Paper presentation at the Society of Applied Anthropology Meetings, Portland, OR, March 19 – 23.
S. Morrissey. 2003 “The Right to Eat vs. The Right to Heal: Culture and Disparate Metaphors of the WIC Program in Syracuse, New York.” Invited talk for the Maternal and Child Health Program Lecture Series at the University of Illinois Chicago School of Public Health, January 29.
S. Morrissey, T. Dye and D. Fernandez. 2002 “The Marketing of Medicine: An Ethnographic Assessment for the Placement of New Technologies in Rural Costa Rica.” Paper presentation at the American Anthropological Association Annual Meetings, New Orleans, LA, November 20 – 24.
S. Morrissey 2002 Panel Organizer and Chair. “Selling Culture: A Dialogue Between Critical and Applied Approaches to Marketing in Health.” Panel session at the American Anthropological Association Annual Meetings, New Orleans, LA, November 20 – 24.
S. Morrissey 2002 “Is it Food Assistance or is it Healthcare?: What Women Expect From a Public Health Service, the Strategies They Use to Avoid Dependency, and the Providers Who Feel Used.” Paper presentation at the Society for the Anthropology of North America Conference, jointly held with the Canadian Anthropology Society, Windsor, Ontario, May 3.
S. Morrissey and J. Pribilsky 2001 “‘Bringing Peace of Mind’: DNA Paternity Testing and Shifting Images of Fatherhood in the United States.” Paper delivered at the 100th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, D.C., November 28 - December 2.
S. Lane, K. Dygert, D. Milton, S. Morrissey, et al. 2000 “Action Anthropology and Infant Mortality Prevention.” Paper delivered at the 99th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association. San Francisco, CA, November 16-19.
S. Morrissey 2000 “Doing Ethnography.” Guest speaker in the Medical Anthropology Summer Research Training Program for University of Rochester Medical Students, Rochester, New York.
S. Morrissey. 2000 “‘Poor Women, Poor Outcomes’: The Use of Qualitative Methods to Discover Folk Categories.” Paper delivered at the Qualitative Health Research Conference, Banff, Alberta, April 6-8.
N. Chin, T. Dye, S. Morrissey, K. Hood, et al. 2000 Child Abuse Prevention: Using Key Informant Interviews to Identify Critical Knowledge, Attitudes, and Beliefs. Paper delivered at the Qualitative Health Research Conference, Banff, Alberta, April 6-8.
T. Dye, N. Chin, S. Morrissey, K. Hood, et al. 2000 Use of Focus Groups In Patterning Context of Child Abuse and Child Neglect Ascertainment. Paper delivered at the Qualitative Health Research Conference, Banff, Alberta, April 6-8.
S. Morrissey 2000 “State, Church and Public Health Policy: Images of The ‘Good’ Mother in the Republic of Ireland.” Paper delivered at the Annual Meeting of the American Ethnological Society, Tampa, FL, March 23-25.
T. Dye and S. Morrissey 2000 “Integrating Qualitative Methods into Quantitative Approaches: The Results of the Rochester Child Abuse Study.” Research seminar hosted by the Royal Maternity Hospital of Belfast, Health and Social Care Research Unit, Belfast, Northern Ireland, March 15.
T. Dye and S. Morrissey 2000 “Breastfeeding: Comparing N.I. and U.S. Experiences.” Research seminar hosted by the Royal Maternity Hospital of Belfast, Midwifery Research Group, Belfast, Northern Ireland, March 9.
S. Morrissey and J. Pribilsky 2000 “Accounting for Consumption: Survey Development and Methodological Shifts in an Ethnographic Study of an Ecuadorian Migrant-sending Community.” Paper and informal workshop presented to the Global Affairs Institute, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, September 8.
T. Dye, M. Wojtowycz, J. Quade, S. Morrissey, R. Aubry 1999 “Adequacy of Prenatal Care Among Immigrants from the Former Soviet Union.” Paper delivered at the CDC Maternal and Child Health Epidemiology Conference, December, Atlanta, GA.
T. Dye, M. Wojtowcyz, J. Quade, S. Morrissey, R. Aubry 1999 “Asking About Conception: Correlates of Response to an Intendedness of Pregnancy Question.” Paper delivered at the CDC Maternal and Child Health Epidemiology Conference, December, Atlanta, GA.
S. Morrissey 1999 “‘WIC is For You’: Exploration of Prenatal Intervention Strategies in Syracuse, New York.” Paper delivered at the 98th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, November, Chicago.
S. Morrissey 1999 “Rapid Ethnographic Assessment in Rural Costa Rica: Anthropology and Computer Assisted Public Health.” Paper delivered at the Department of Anthropology Syracuse University Lecture Series, November, Syracuse, New York.
S. Morrissey 1998 “Mapping Disparity: The Geography of Infant Mortality in Inner City Neighborhoods.” Poster presentation at the 97th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Philadelphia, December 2-6.
S. Lane, S. Morrissey, D. Cibula, A. Nestor 1998 “The Demographics of Racism: Hidden Violence and Preventable Mortality.” Paper delivered at the 97th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Philadelphia, December 2-6.
S. Morrissey, A. Nestor, L. Novick 1998 “Infant Mortality in Inner City Neighborhoods: The Geographic Analysis of Health Disparities.” Poster presentation at the CDC Annual Maternal, Infant, and Child Health Epidemiology Workshop, Atlanta, GA, December 1-2.
S. Morrissey 1998 Conference Organizer, “Comparative Approaches to Breastfeeding: Barriers and Health Implications.” Discussant: Ann McElroy, Ph.D., University of Buffalo Department of Anthropology. Syracuse, New York, September 23.
S. Morrissey 1995 “Breastfeeding and World Health: The Implications of Urbanization and Public Health Policy.” Paper delivered at the Annual Meeting of the North Eastern Anthropological Association, April, Lake Placid, NY.
Burroughs Wellcome Fund Travel Grant 2000. “The Rochester-Belfast Maternal and Child Health Research Collaborative (RB-MCHC).” Belfast, N. Ireland.
University Fellow 1999-2000. Dissertation write-up grant, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, (declined).
Global Political Economy Research Consortium Grant 1999. Global Affairs Institute, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY. “Transnational Parenting, Remittances, and Household Consumption: A Survey of High School Students in an Ecuadorian Migrant Sending Community.” Bayendel, Central Andes, Ecuador.
Graduate Assistantship Spring and Summer 1999. Global Affairs Institute, Gender and Globalization Project, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY.
Roscoe Martin Fund for Dissertation Research Spring 1998 and Spring 1999. Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY.
Creative Research Grant for Dissertation Research 1998. Graduate School, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York.
Graduate Fellow 1997-1998. Dissertation research funding, Health Resources and Services Administration and the Onondaga County Health Department (Syracuse Healthy Start Project), Syracuse, New York.
Claudia de Lys Fund for Dissertation Research 1997. Anthropology Department, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York.
Dean’s Summer Research Grant 1996. Grant for Master’s research in Ireland, Maxwell School, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York.
Graduate Assistant Summer Fellowship 1996. Grant for Master’s research in Ireland, Program on the Analysis and Resolution of Conflict (PARC), Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York.
Language skills: Intermediate Spanish
Computer design and database skills: Power Point, Excel, Epi-Info 6, SPSS, SAS, ACCESS, NVivo (NUD*IST for qualitative research).
American Anthropological Association
Society for Applied Anthropology
National Exchange Club
Society for Medical Anthropology
Paul Apostolidis, Associate Professor of Politics and Paul Chair Political Science, Whitman College, Maxey Hall 116, Walla Walla, WA 99362; apostopc@whitman.edu or 509-522-4426.
Charles “Chas” McKhann, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Whitman College, Maxey Hall 328, Walla Walla, WA 99362; mckhann@whitman.edu or 509-527-5138.
Susan Wadley, Ford Maxwell Professor of South Asian Studies and Associate Dean of Arts and Sciences, 441 Hall of Languages, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 13244; sswadley@syr.edu or 315-443-1011.