College of Humanities and Social Sciences University of Northern Colorado 2263 Candelaria Hall Campus Box 90 Greeley, Colorado 80639

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1 WHITNEY L. DUNCAN Position Assistant Professor Department of Anthropology College of Humanities and Social Sciences University of Northern Colorado 2263 Candelaria Hall Campus Box 90 Greeley, Colorado Contact Information Office: (970) Fax: (970) Education 2012 PhD, University of California, San Diego, Anthropology 2009 C.Phil, University of California, San Diego, Anthropology 2008 MA, University of California, San Diego, Anthropology 2002 BA, Columbia University, English with Concentrations in Anthropology and Creative Writing Professional Academic University of Northern Colorado Assistant Professor of Anthropology 2012 University of Colorado, Colorado Springs Lecturer 2013 Colorado State University-Pueblo Adjunct Instructor

2 Non-Professional Academic Robert Wood Johnson Medical School s Critical Research Issues in Latino Mental Health program Junior Investigator o Developed manuscripts for publication in collaboration with mentors (Dr. Marvin Karno (UCLS) 2010; Dr. Peter Guarnaccia (Rutgers) 2011) Center for Comparative Immigration Studies Research Associate & Collaborator, Mexican Migration Field Research and Training Program (MMFRP) Conducted research with multidisciplinary team in Oaxaca & San Diego; trained undergraduate researchers University of California, San Diego Graduate Student Researcher NIH-funded study, Southwest Youth Experience of Psychiatric Treatment, (RO1 MH071781) o Conducted ethnographic interviews with a multiethnic sample of adolescents, their guardians, and mental health practitioners in New Mexico; qualitative data analysis; collaboration with multidisciplinary research team Center for Comparative Immigration Studies Research Associate & Collaborator, Mexican Migration Field Research and Training Program (MMFRP) Conducted research with multidisciplinary team in Oaxaca & San Diego; trained undergraduate researchers University of California, San Diego Teaching Assistant, Sixth College Writing Program Culture, Art, & Technology I & II (core curriculum in social sciences series) Sixth College Senior Practicum Area of Specialization Medical anthropology, psychological anthropology; immigration & health; anthropology of globalization

3 Research Areas/ Interests Research-Related Activity Globalizing health practices & ideologies; culture, gender, & immigration as related to mental health and well-being; healthcare delivery and global health systems; social determinants of health and health disparities; narrative, subjectivity & emotion; cultural change in the context of globalization; medical pluralism Project HealthViews. Community engaged research project (community partner: Salud Family Health Centers) investigating how various groups of Coloradans understand health and how culture, ethnicity, and socio-economic status impact patients experiences of and access to medical treatment. One of the main goals of the project is to help Salud meet the needs of its diverse patient population Culture, Globalization, and Mental Health in Oaxaca, Mexico. Ongoing mixed-methods research on the transnational dimensions of mental health and emotion in Southern Mexico. Project focuses on the culture and political economy of mental healthcare; experiences and conceptions of emotion and psychopathology; the local incorporation of globalizing psy- concepts and practices; and the interface between immigration and mental health. Publications Juried: Duncan, Whitney L. (2015). Gendered Trauma and its Effects: Domestic Violence and PTSD in Oaxaca, in Culture & PTSD, eds. Devon Hinton & Byron Good. University of Pennsylvania Press. Duncan, Whitney L. (2015). Transnational Disorders: Returned Migrants at Oaxaca s Psychiatric Hospital. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 29(1): In progress Psicoeducación in the Land of Magical Thoughts: Culture and Mental Health Practice in a Changing Oaxaca. Revise and Resubmit. Duncan, Whitney L. Transforming Therapy: Mental Health Practice and Cultural Change in Mexico. Book manuscript. Non-Juried: Calvario, Regina; Duncan, Whitney L.; Enríquez, Diana; López, Gilberto; Salgado, Hugo (2013). Migration and Mental Health in a Binational Mixteco Community, in The Wall Between Us: A Mixteco Migrant Community in Mexico and the United States, eds. David Fitzgerald, David

4 Keyes, & Jorge Hernández Díaz. La Jolla, Center for Comparative Immigration Studies. Duncan, Whitney L.; Korwin, Laurel; Pinedo, Miguel; González-Fagoaga, Eduardo; and García, Durga (2009). Hay Que Lucharle : The Impact of Migration on Health in Migration from the Mexican Mixteca: A Transnational Community in Oaxaca and California, eds. Wayne A. Cornelius, David Fitzgerald, Jorge Hernández Díaz, and Scott Borger. La Jolla, Center for Comparative Immigration Studies: Lynne Rienner Publishers. Selected Professional Presentations Juried: 2016 Co-author, Perceptions and Experiences of Salud Family Health Center Clients: A Preliminary Qualitative Evaluation. American Public Health Association Annual Meeting and Expo, Denver, CO, October Discussant, "Spaces Of Expulsion: Sociality, Belonging, And Intimate (Dis)Attachments In The Aftermaths Of Forced Migration." Anthropological Association s 114 th Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, November Roundtable Organizer and Participant, Anthropological Engagements in Global Mental Health. American Anthropological Association s 114 th Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, November Affect Across Borders: The Transnational Dimensions of Migrant Mental Health. Society for Psychological Anthropology Biennial Meetings, Boston, MA Psy-globalization in Oaxaca: Self, Sociality, and Mental Health / El ser, la sociabilidad y la salud mental: La psicoglobalización en Oaxaca. Society for Latin American and Carribean Anthropology Annual Meetings, Oaxaca, Mexico Psy-globalization in Oaxaca, Mexico. Anthropology of Mental Health Interest Group Conference, Washington, DC Experiencing Trauma Transnationally: Migration and Family Separation in Southern Mexico. Society for the Study of Psychiatry and Culture Annual Conference, San Diego, CA Transforming Therapy: Mental Health and Cultural Change in Oaxaca. Society for Applied Anthropology s 74 th Annual Meeting. Albuquerque, NM Toward an Anthropology of Mental Health: Current

5 Issues and Future Directions Roundtable, American Anthropological Association s 112 th Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois. Invited Speaker Crafting Undergraduate Anthropology Programs for Today and Tomorrow s World: The Relevance of Boas and the Four-Field Approach. American Anthropological Association s 112 th Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois. Co-author Trastornos Transnacionales: Migración y la Salud Mental en el Hospital Psiquiátrico [Transnational Disorders: Migration and Mental Health at the Psychiatric Hospital]. Tenth International Symposium of Oaxacan Studies, organized by the Welte Institute for Oaxacan Studies and the Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social (CIESAS), Oaxaca, Mexico Treatment-seeking Across Borders: Returned Migrants at Oaxaca s Psychiatric Hospital. Society for Applied Anthropology s 73 rd Annual Meeting, Denver, CO I Felt Like the Sun Was Sad : Transnationally Shaped Sentiments in Mexican Migrant Sending Communities. American Anthropological Association s 111 th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA Migración y Salud Mental en Oaxaca: Hallazgos del Hospital Psiquiátrico [Migration and Mental Health in Oaxaca: Findings from the Psychiatric Hospital]. Invited Speaker, Foro Binacional de Políticas sobre Migración y Salud / Binational Forum on Migration and Health Public Policy, Oaxaca, Mexico Mental Health Discourse and Treatment in a Binational Oaxacan Community. Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD The Provision & Experience of Psychiatric Care in Southern Mexico. Robert Wood Johnson Medical School s Critical Research Issues in Latino Mental Health conference and NIMH-funded grant-writing workshop, Miami, FL Migration and Mental Health: Attitudes, Understandings, and Treatment Preferences in a Binational Oaxacan Community. With Gilberto López. Robert Wood Johnson Medical School s Critical Research Issues in Latino Mental Health conference, Miami, FL Managing Emotions: Mental Health Practice and Cultural Change in Oaxaca. American Anthropological Association s 110 th Annual Meeting, Montreal.

6 2011 Narrating Illness and Emotion in Oaxacan Psychiatry. Society for Psychological Anthropology Biennial Meeting, Santa Monica Situations of Insecurity: The emergence of pánico, trauma and Estrés Postraumático in Oaxaca. American Anthropological Association s 109 th Annual Meeting, New Orleans Mental Health and Migration in a Changing Oaxaca. University of California s Global Health Day Conference, UC-Irvine Mental Health in a Changing Oaxaca: A View from the Psychiatric Hospital. Robert Wood Johnson Medical School s Critical Research Issues in Latino Mental Health conference, New Brunswick, NJ Emotional Health, Healthcare, and the Migration Experience. American Public Health Association Annual Meeting Mental Health, Migration, and Global Processes: The Case of Oaxaca. Research Workshop on Migration and Health, Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, San Diego, CA. Non-Juried 2015 Engaging Community through Medical Anthropology: Project HealthViews Colorado. UNC Community Engagement Symposium Medical Anthropology in Action: Project HealthViews Colorado. UNC Research Day Project HealthViews Colorado, invited talk in Colorado School of Public Health Methods in Public Health Research and Evaluation course at UNC 2015 Project HealthViews and how to Engage Effectively in Oaxaca, invited talk in Colorado School of Public Health Effective Community Health Engagement course at UNC 2015 Consultant and invited speaker for University of Southern California s Latino Mental Health and Research Training Program (MHIRT) 2015 Invited Speaker, University of Oregon Migrant & Refugee Health Class 2013 Migration and Mental Health, invited talk in Theory and Principles of Public Health Nursing: Population- Based Practice class at UNC 2012 Applied Medical Anthropology, invited talk in

7 Applied Anthropology class at UNC 2011 Invited Speaker, Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, University of California, San Diego Conference Organizing (Juried) 2015 Roundtable Organizer and Participant, Anthropological Engagements in Global Mental Health. American Anthropological Association s 114 th Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, November Anthropology of Mental Health Interest Group (AAA) conference committee and organizer 2013 Organizer and coordinator, Bienestar [Wellbeing] Panel. Tenth International Symposium of Oaxacan Studies, organized by the Welte Institute for Oaxacan Studies and the Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social (CIESAS), Oaxaca, Mexico Session Organizer, Defining Discourse, Shaping Selves: Institutional Ethos and Global Mental Health. Sponsored by the Society for Medical Anthropology. American Anthropological Association s 110 th Annual Meeting, Montreal. Funded Projects 2015 University of Northern Colorado Faculty Reassignment Award for Research, Scholarship, and Creative Works to support development of article manuscript 2015 University of Northern Colorado Provost s Award for Travel for conference travel to Oaxaca, Mexico 2014 University of Northern Colorado Faculty Reassignment Award for Research, Scholarship, and Creative Works to support development of book manuscript, Transforming Therapy 2013 University of Northern Colorado Provost Fund for Faculty Scholarship & Professional Development to support development of book manuscript ($9746) 2013 University of Northern Colorado Summer Support Initiative to support development of book manuscript ($3000) National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant for The Culture of Mental Health in a Changing Oaxaca ($18,950) Fellowships University of Northern Colorado Sponsored Research

8 Fellowship Program Professional Consultation & Service to Discipline President s Dissertation Year Diversity Fellowship, University of California, $22, Summer Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship, U.S. Dept. of Education Academic Year Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship, U.S. Dept. of Education 2007 Summer Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship Academic Year Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship Regents Fellowship, UCSD Dept. of Anthropology 2010 F.G. Bailey Fellowship Award for Dissertation Research, UCSD Department of Anthropology Melford E. Spiro Dissertation Fellowship, UCSD Department of Anthropology PRESENT Reviewer, Social Science and Medicine PRESENT Reviewer, National Science Foundation Cultural Anthropology Program PRESENT Reviewer, Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry 2015 Expert Witness, Florence Immigrant and Refugee Rights Project, contracted with the Vera Institute for Social Justice 2014 Anthropology of Mental Health Interest Group (AAA) conference committee and organizer Reviewer, American Anthropologist 2013 Expert Witness, Greeley, CO Conducted research and testified in trial; Solicited by Colorado Public Defenders 2013 Reviewer, National Council of Undergraduate Research Disability Rights Legal Center at Loyola Law Public Interest Law Center in Los Angeles Consulted as expert on asylum case Immigration Services at Catholic Charities. Volunteer & Consultant. Pueblo, CO International Community Foundation (ICF). Consultant, Oaxaca Fund Initiative. San Diego

9 Professional Association Participation Society for Medical Anthropology Culture and Mental Health Special Interest Group Committee Member Helped develop Interest Group Mission Statement & Objectives Memberships: American Anthropological Association, Society for Medical Anthropology, Society for Psychological Anthropology, Society for Applied Anthropology, Society for Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology Community Service University Service, Committees & Advising 2014 Volunteer to register Denver-area voters in the November 2014 elections 2013 Volunteer on Mobile Unit, Migrant Health Program at Salud Family Health Centers. Northern Colorado Bayside Community Center Mixtec Cultural Exchange Program, Volunteer English & Spanish Teacher, Familia Unida Indígena. San Diego Project Concern International (PCI). Intern, Project HEAL Migrant Support Group for Women. San Diego Humanities and Social Sciences Awards Committee M. Lucile Harrison Award Committee 2015 Undergraduate Abstract Reviewer and Finalist Judge for Poster Presentations at UNC s Research Excellence Awards and Research Day 2014-present UNC Faculty Grievance Committee 2015 Chair, Anthropology Department Evaluation Committee (DEC), UNC 2015 Undergraduate Abstract Reviewer and Finalist Judge for Oral Presentations at UNC s Research Excellence Awards and Research Day Humanities and Social Sciences Awards Committee 2014 Anthropology Department Assessment Plan and Mission Statement Review Committee, , 2014-present Anthropology Department Evaluation Committee (DEC) member, UNC Anthropology Honor s Advisor, UNC Honors Thesis Advisor

10 To Denise Muro University Disciplinary Committee, UNC McNair Scholar Mentor To Phu Mai, Anthropology Major To Megan Braunschweig, Human Services Major To Meron Haile, Human Services Major Honors Thesis Advisor To Alexandra Krumtum, Anthropology/Political Science Major To Caitlin Miller, Anthropology/Psychology Major Graduate Student Committees Katherine Sanchez (School Psychology), Doctoral Committee Member Lindsay Mieras, Educational Leadership and Policy Studies Teaching Courses Taught & Developed : Online Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, UNC Dept of Anthropology Anthropology of Globalization, UNC Dept of Anthropology Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, UNC Dept of Anthropology Medical Anthropology, UNC Dept of Anthropology Field Methods in Cultural Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, University of Northern Colorado Medical Anthropology, University of Colorado-Colorado Springs Dept of Anthropology, Spring 2012 Chican@: Social & Psychological Study, Chicano Studies Program, Colorado State University-Pueblo, Fall 2011 Courses Taught: 2006 Culture, Art, & Technology 1 Core Curriculum in Social Sciences, UC-San Diego s Sixth College Writing Program 2006 Culture, Art, & Technology 2 Core Curriculum in Social Sciences, UC-San Diego s Sixth College Writing Program Professional Development Activities 2015 National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program Workshop, UNC

11 2014 Digital Storytelling in Public Health Webinar, Center for Digital Storytelling 2014 Digital Storytelling Standard Workshop, Denver, Center for Digital Storytelling 2014 National Science Foundation Grants Conference, Denver, Colorado 2014 Teaching Academy for Online Learning 2013 Service Learning 101: An Engaged Faculty Institute Colorado Campus Compact and UNC s Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning, March 2013 Honors and Awards 2015 University of Northern Colorado s Engaged Scholar Award 2012 Anthropology Works Blog, dissertation selected for inclusion in list of Best Cultural Anthropology Dissertations of Society for Medical Anthropology Travel Fellowship 2011 Junior Investigator Award, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School s Critical Research Issues in Latino Mental Health Conference and NIMH-funded grantwriting workshop 2010 Junior Investigator Award, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School s Critical Research Issues in Latino Mental Health Conference 2010 In Absentia Research Award, Office of Graduate Studies, UCSD 2010 Dean of Social Sciences Travel Fund Award, UCSD 2008 Institute for International, Comparative, and Area Studies (IICAS) Student Travel Grant, UCSD Latino Studies Research Initiative (LSRI) Research Grant, UCSD 2008 George Haydu Essay Prize for the Study of Culture, Behavior, and Human Values, for paper Estás Triste? : Coauthoring empathy and emotion in interaction, UCSD.