Graduate Students
Fields of Study
Medical/Psychological Anthropology and Linguistic Anthropology
Research
African Americans; African American literature; Black English; autism; disability; autism diagnosis;healthcare disparities; narrative; everyday family life; phenomenology; morality; United States
Conference Presentations
American Anthropological Association, Panel Presentation, Dec. 2017 African-American Parent Language in White Clinical Spaces as Competing Forms of “Local Knowledge”: Whuppins not Spankings Create Disparities
Advisors
Norma Mendoza-Denton
Linda Garro
Jason Throop
Samy H. Alim
Cheryl Mattingly
Degrees
MA Medical Anthropology, Creighton University (2017). Thesis: "Parenting Autism: An Exploratory Study of the Culture and Experience of African-American Parents of Children Diagnosed with Autism"