Expertise

Cultural and medical anthropology; migration and adaptation of Latino communities; indigenous migrants; health of immigrant and refugee children and families; applied research

Education

Doctoral degree, anthropology and master’s degree, medical anthropology, McGill University; master’s degree, public health, Columbia University; bachelor’s degree, sociology, Bryn Mawr College

Background

Current Position: Development and implementation of NCLR’s agenda for policy-oriented research across issue areas; oversight of research team; technical support for policy and research analysts; development of new research, particularly around Latino children’s policy issues

Previous Position(s): Assistant Professor (status), University of Toronto (Anthropology); Research Associate, Toronto General Hospital Women’s Health Program; Research Assistant Professor, Vanderbilt University (Anthropology); Researcher, Transcultural Psychiatry Division, Montreal Children’s Hospital; Grants Officer, EngenderHealth (Latin America and Caribbean)

Selected Publications

“Refugees and Forced Migration,” in Introduction à l’anthropologie de l’aide humanitaire et du développement (2009)

In Search of Providence: Transnational Mayan Identities (2007)

“Constructing and Deconstructing the Myth of the Lying Refugee: Paradoxes of Power and Justice in an Administrative Immigration Tribunal,” in Lying and Illness: Power and Performance, coauthored with C. Rousseau (2005)

“The Complexity of Determining Refugeehood: A Multidisciplinary Analysis of the Decision-Making Process of the Canadian Immigration and Refugee Board,” Journal of Refugee Studies, coauthored with C. Rousseau, F. Crépeau, and F. Houle (2002)

“A la recherche d’identités au Guatemala après la guerre civile: quelques perspectives transnationales,” Recherches Amérindiennes au Québec (2001)

“Cacophony of Voices: A K’iche’ Mayan Narrative of Remembrance and Forgetting,” Transcultural Psychiatry (2000)