1996 Data Analyst, Northern Cheyenne Tribal Health Services Instructor, Social Science Department, Chief Dull Knife College

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1 Erica Prussing Departments of Anthropology and Community & Behavioral Health University of Iowa 114 Macbride Hall, Iowa City, IA EDUCATIONAL AND PROFESSIONAL HISTORY Education 2000 M.P.H., Epidemiology, University of California at Berkeley 1999 Ph.D., Anthropology, University of California at San Diego 1992 M.A., Anthropology, University of California at San Diego 1988 B.A., Psychobiology, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA Phone: ; FAX: Positions 2011-present Associate Professor, University of Iowa, Department of Anthropology (with 0% secondary appointment in the Department of Community & Behavioral Health) Assistant Professor, University of Iowa, Department of Anthropology (with 0% secondary appointment in the Department of Community & Behavioral Health) Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Iowa, Department of Anthropology (with 25% secondary appointment in the Department of Community & Behavioral Health) Postdoctoral Fellow, Children s Hospital & Health Center, San Diego; Clinical Instructor, Department of Family & Preventive Medicine, School of Medicine, University of California at San Diego Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, University of California at San Diego 2000 Research Assistant, Office of AIDS, California Department of Health Services Site Manager, 9-A-Day Clinical Trial, Cancer Prevention & Control Program, University of California at San Diego 1996 Data Analyst, Northern Cheyenne Tribal Health Services Instructor, Social Science Department, Chief Dull Knife College SCHOLARSHIP Book & article publications: Refereed 2014 Contextualizing racial disparities in preterm delivery: A rhetorical analysis of U.S. epidemiological research at the turn of the 21st century. Social Science & Medicine, 115: Historical Trauma: Politics of a Conceptual Framework. Transcultural Psychiatry 51(3) and Joseph P. Gone 2011 Alcohol treatment in Native North America: Gender in cultural context. Alcoholism Treatment Quarterly 29(4): White Man s Water: The Politics of Sobriety in a Native American Community. Tucson: University of Arizona Press

2 2008 Sobriety and Its Cultural Politics: An Ethnographer s Perspective on Culturally Appropriate Addiction Services in Native North America. Ethos 36(3): Reconfiguring the empty center: Addiction, recovery, and identity in Native American women s narratives. Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry 31(4): , Elisa J. Sobo, Elizabeth Walker, and Paul S. Kurtin 2005 Between desperation and disability rights: A narrative analysis of complementary/alternative medicine use by parents for children with Down syndrome. Social Science & Medicine 60(3): , Elisa J. Sobo, Elizabeth Walker, Kimberly Dennis, and Paul S. Kurtin 2004 Communicating about complementary/alternative medicine: Perspectives from parents of children with Down syndrome. Ambulatory Pediatrics 4(6): Palinkas, Lawrence A., Erica Prussing, Vivian M. Reznik, and John A. Landsverk 2004 The San Diego East County school shootings: A qualitative study of community level posttraumatic stress. Prehospital & Disaster Medicine 19(1): Palinkas, Lawrence A., Erica Prussing, Vivian M. Reznik, and John A. Landsverk 2003 Youth violence prevention in the aftermath of the San Diego East County school shootings: A qualitative assessment of community explanatory models. Ambulatory Pediatrics 3(5): Ruiz, Juan D., Fred Molitor, Erica Prussing, Laura Peck, and Paola Grasso 2002 Prenatal HIV counseling and testing in California: Women s experiences and health care providers knowledge and practices. AIDS Education and Prevention 14(3): Book Reviews 2010 Review of Reconstructing Motherhood and Disability in the Age of Perfect Babies, by Gail H. Landsman. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 24(3): Review of Religion and Healing in America, by Linda L. Barnes and Susan S. Sered (eds.). American Anthropologist 108(3): Review of Conceiving Risk, Bearing Responsibility: Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and the Diagnosis of Moral Disorder, by E. M. Armstrong. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 18(3): Research Reports n.d. Gender and Cultural Context in the Pursuit of Sobriety: Perspectives from the Northern Cheyenne Reservation. [Prepared in 1996 for the Northern Cheyenne Recovery Center, Northern Cheyenne Tribal Health Services, and dissertation research participants] Presentations: National/Refereed (selected) 2013 Accounting for indigeneity in science studies: An example from public health. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Chicago, November

3 2011 Authorizing Science: Rights Discourse in Indigenous-Controlled Epidemiology. Paper presented at the November, 2011 American Anthropological Association meetings, Montreal, Québec (as part of a session co-organized with Laura Graham, TRACING HUMAN RIGHTS DISCOURSE IN ADVOCACY BY INDIGENOUS PEOPLES) 2011 Science and the politics of decolonizing health: An analysis of tribally-run epidemiology centers. Paper presented at the Central States Anthropological Society annual meeting, Iowa City, IA, April Decolonizing Epidemiology in Native North America. Paper presented at the Native American & Indigenous Studies Association annual meeting, Minneapolis, MN, May Race and Its Cultural Politics in U.S. Epidemiology. Paper presented at the What s the Use of Race? conference, Program in Science, Technology and Society, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, April 25. Note: 18 of 90 submissions were accepted. Wahls Terry L., Laura R. Graham, Sarah Jewell, Erica Prussing, and Marcy Rosenbaum 2008 Women Physicians Perceive a Gender Based Differential in Expectations and Responsiveness of Women Nurses to Women Physicians. Poster accepted for presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Society for General Internal Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, April 9. Note: 705 of 1154 submissions were accepted, evaluated through blinded peer review Challenging Racializing Logics in U.S. Epidemiology: Insights from Science Studies. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington D.C., November Sobriety, identity, and the cultural politics of alcohol services in a Native North American reservation community. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington D.C., December Incorporating anthropology and epidemiology: Transcending the Cartesian body in research on preterm delivery. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Chicago, November Epidemiological metaphors: (Re)framing a century of research into ethnic disparities in infant mortality. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, New Orleans, November 24. GRANTS Year Amount & role Agency Research a. External 2013 $224,315; PI National Science Ethnographic study of indigenous- Foundation controlled epidemiology in U.S. & NZ 2012 $20,000; PI Wenner Gren Ethnographic study of indigenous

4 Foundation controlled epidemiology in U.S. & NZ 1996 $1,500; Woodrow Wilson Dissertation writing PI Foundation (Dissertation Fellowship in Women s Studies) 1995 $2,000; Soroptimist Dissertation research at tribal PI International of alcohol services program La Jolla b. Internal 2010 $7,429; University of Iowa Pilot study of community- PI Arts & Humanities based epidemiology by Initiative indigenous peoples in the U.S. & New Zealand 2005 $4,000; University of Iowa Follow-up ethnographic PI Old Gold Summer interviews about addiction Fellowship services and tribal control of local health services 2001 $50,000; Child & Adolescent Rapid assessment of community Co-PI Services Research psychological responses to two Center, Children s school shootings in eastern San Hospital & Health Diego county Center, San Diego 1994 $4,000; Wellesley College Dissertation research (Horton- PI Hallowell Fellowship for Graduate Study) 1994 $4,000; UC-San Diego Dissertation research (Graduate PI Research Fellowship) TEACHING Courses taught: Health of Indigenous Peoples, Native Peoples of North America, Medical Anthropology, Anthropology of Women s Health, Culture & Healing for Future Health Professionals, Undergraduate Honors Research Seminar, Psychological Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Medical Anthropology & Social Theory [graduate seminar], Feminist Perspectives on Biology & Culture [graduate seminar], Ethnographic Field Methods [graduate seminar]. Students Supervised: 39 doctoral students in 9 different academic departments (6 as committee chair or co-chair); 17 master s students in 7 different academic departments (5 as chair or cochair), 10 undergraduate honors and senior project students in 3 different academic departments (all as primary mentor). SERVICE 1. Profession 2002-present Reviewer for articles submitted to journals including Social Science & Medicine; Medical Anthropology Quarterly; Medical Anthropology; Science, Technology and Human Values; American Ethnologist; Transcultural Psychiatry and for book manuscripts submitted to University of Arizona Press 2006 Reviewer/evaluator of sessions and papers submitted to the Society for Psychological --4--

5 Anthropology for the 2006 annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association 2005 Judge for Rivers Undergraduate Paper Prize, Society for Medical Anthropology 2001 Scientific Review Committee Member (temporary/ad-hoc), HCRT Study Section, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD 2. Department Search committee member & departmental representative, Global Health/medical anthropology search 2012 Interim Departmental Executive Officer, ½ of summer session Director of Undergraduate Studies Medical anthropology/aging studies job search committee member & Medical Anthropology job search committee member Departmental Self Study committee member Curriculum Committee member Colloquium Committee member 2004-present Feminist Anthropology Program faculty member 2005 & 2009 Graduate Admissions Committee member 3. College co-academic Coordinator (with Jacki Rand), American Indian & Native Studies Program Academic Coordinator, American Indian & Native Studies Program 2012-present Elected member-at-large, Faculty Assembly 2010 Member, ad-hoc proposal development committee (spring/summer), Aging in the Heartland cluster hire initiative, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Member, Steering Committee, American Indian & Native Studies Program 4. University Elected member, Faculty Senate Member, Steering Committee, Global Health Studies Program [for : performance review of current GHSP postdoctoral fellow & member of search committee for incoming postdoctoral fellow; for : search committee member & Anthropology departmental representative for GHSP assistant professor position] Formal meta-mentor for junior faculty member in Community & Behavioral Health 2012 Member, Fulbright Campus Review Committee, International Programs Member, Strategic Planning Committee, International Programs Reviewer, Social Science Funding Program, Office for Vice President for Research 2009 Faculty roundtable participant, Women s Resource and Action Council and American Indian Student Association intergenerational conversation event to consider the relevance of feminism, February Faculty presenter, American Indian Student Association faculty-student reception, November 13. June