EDUCATION INFO:
2007 - BA Honors College, University of South Carolina-Columbia

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION:
Medical Anthropology
Visual Anthropology
Biological Anthropology

AREAS OF INTEREST:
Healthcare and illness in marginalized populations
Organ transplantation and the global commodity trade
Evidence of structural violence in skeletal records

CURRENT RESEARCH:
Barriers to healthcare access on Dominican bateys: principal fieldwork conducted June August 2008
Ethics of ethnographic filmmaking for advocacy

THESIS COMMITTEE:
Dr. David Simmons - Chair
Dr. Ann Kingsolver
Dr. Thomas Leatherman

FELLOWSHIP:
2008 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship

PAPERS/POSTERS PRESENTED:
April 2006, SC Student Anthropology Conference

CONFERENCES ATTENDED:
April 2008, SC Student Anthropology Conference - Moderator

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS:
American Anthropological Association
Society for Medical Anthropology
Organizacíon Confraternidad Dominico Haitiano


EMAIL:
jeremy.vanderknyff@gmail.com