"Social and cultural context of racial inequalities in health" (Clarence C. Gravlee, PI; Christopher McCarty, Co-PI), National Science Foundation, Cultural Anthropology Program, $355,550, 2007-10.
"Center for Health Disparities Research: Epidemiologic and Cultural Dimensions"
(R. Jay Turner, PI; Clarence C. Gravlee, Isaac W. Eberstein, Co-Investigators), Cornerstone Social Science Program Enhancement Grant, Florida State University, " $100,000, 2005-07
First Year Assistant Professor Award, Florida State University, $13,000, 2004
Emerging Scholar, Understanding Race and Human Variation,
Society for Medical Anthropology and American Anthropological
Association, 2005
University Women's Club Award for Outstanding Ph.D. Writing
and Research, 2002
National Institutes of Health (NIH), Office of Behavioral
and Social Sciences Research, Travel Stipend to Toward
Higher Levels of Analysis: Progress and Promise in Research
on Social and Cultural Dimensions of Health, June 27-28,
2000
Gravlee, Clarence C., David P. Kennedy, Ricardo Godoy, and William R. Leonard. (2009). Methods for collecting panel data: What does cultural anthropology have to learn from other disciplines? Journal of Anthropological Research 65:in press.
Gravlee, Clarence C. and Elizabeth Sweet. (2008). Race, ethnicity, and racism in medical anthropology, 1977-2002. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 22(1):27-51.
Gravlee, C. C. (2008). Life expectancy. In J. H. Moore (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Race and Racism. (Vol. 2, pp. 265-269). Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA.
Godoy, R., Goodman, E., Gravlee, C. C., Levins, R., Seyfried, C., Caram, M., et al. (2007). Blood pressure and hypertension in an American colony (Puerto Rico) and on the USA mainland compared, 1886-1930.Economics & Human Biology, 5(2), 255-279.
Zenk, S. N., A. J. Schulz, G. Mentz, J. S. House, C. C. Gravlee, P. Y. Miranda, P. Miller, and S. Kannan. (2007). Inter-rater and test-retest reliability: Methods and results for the neighborhood observational checklist. Health & Place 13:452-465.
Gravlee, Clarence C., Shannon N. Zenk, Sachiko Woods, Zachary Rowe, and Amy J. Schulz. Handheld computers for systematic observation of the social and physical environment. Field Methods 18(4):382-397.
Schulz, Amy J., Clarence C. Gravlee, David R. Williams, Barbara A. Israel, Zachary Rowe. (2006). Discrimination, symptoms of depression, and self-rated health among African American women in Detroit: Results from a longitudinal analysis. American Journal of Public Health 96(6):1265-1270.
Gravlee, Clarence C., William W. Dressler,
and H. Russell Bernard. (2005). Skin color, social classification,
and blood pressure in Puerto Rico. American
Journal of Public Health 95(12):2191-2197.
Dressler, William W., Kathryn S. Oths, and Clarence C. Gravlee. Race and ethnicity in public health research: Models to explain health disparities. Annual Review of Anthropology 34:231-252.
Gravlee, Clarence C. (2005)
Ethnic classification in southeastern Puerto Rico: The cultural model of "color." Social Forces 83(3):949-970.
Gravlee, Clarence C. and William W. Dressler. (2005). Skin pigmentation, self-perceived color, and arterial blood pressure in Puerto Rico. American Journal of Human Biology 17(2):195-206.
Gravlee, Clarence C., H. Russell Bernard, and William
R. Leonard (2003). Boas's Changes in Bodily Form:
The immigrant study, cranial plasticity, and Boas's physical
anthropology. American
Anthropologist 105(2):326-332.
Gravlee, Clarence C., H. Russell Bernard, and William
R. Leonard (2003). Heredity, environment, and cranial form:
A re-analysis of Boas's immigrant data. American
Anthropologist 105(1):125-138.
Gravlee, Clarence C. (2002). Mobile computer-assisted
personal interviewing (MCAPI) with handheld computers: The Entryware™ system 3.0. Field
Methods 14(3):322-336.
Abstracts and Papers Presented
Mode effects in the collection of pile sorts: face-to-face versus Internet-mediated data collection (first author, with Chad R. Maxwell, Aryeh Jacobsohn, Veronica McClain, and H. Russell Bernard. Society for Anthropological Sciences, San Antonio, TX, Feb. 21-23, 2006.
Meaning, social structure, and individual well-being in Puerto Rico. American Anthropological Association, San Jose, CA, Nov. 14-19, 2006.
Psychophysiologic correlates of cultural consonance in urban Puerto Rico. Society for Applied Anthropology and Society for Medical Anthropology, Vancouver, BC, March 28-April 2, 2006.
Operationalizing race as a cultural construct: Linking ethnography and measurement in health research (second author, with Linda Gordon). Society for Applied Anthropology and Society for Medical Anthropology, Vancouver, BC, March 28-April 2, 2006.
Testing the effects of eliciting free lists orally and over the Internet (first author, with H. Russell Bernard). Society for Cross-Cultural Research and Society for Anthropological Sciences, Savannah, GA, Feb. 23-25, 2006.
Race, ethnicity, and racism in medical anthropology and public health: Patterns, promises, and pitfalls. Invited session, Exploring the intersection of race, human variation and health, American Anthropological Association, Washington, DC, Nov. 30-Dec. 4, 2005.
An empirical evaluation of oral versus written free list elicitation. (first author, with H. Russell Bernard). Society for Applied Anthropology, Santa Fe, NM, April 5-10, 2005.
Handheld computers for systematic observation of the social and physical environment: The Neighborhood Observational Checklist (first author, with S.N. Zenk, S. Woods, Z. Rowe, and A.J. Schulz). American Public Health Association Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, Nov. 6-10, 2004.
Perceived discrimination, depression, and self-rated general health among African American women in Detroit: Longitudinal findings from the Eastside Village Health Workers Partnership (first author, with A.J. Schulz, D.R. Williams, B.A. Israel, and Z. Rowe). American Public Health Association Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, Nov. 6-10, 2004.
Race, ethnicity, and racism in medical anthropology, 1977-2002. Society for Applied Anthropology and Society for Medical Anthropology, Dallas, TX, March 30-April 4, 2004.
Race, biology, and culture. Symposium talk, Reconciling views of human biological variation. Heather Edgar and Keith Hunley, organizers. University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, May 24-25, 2007.
How race becomes biology: social and cultural context of racial inequalities in health. Plenary address, Race, human variation, and disease: consensus and frontiers. American Anthropological Association, Airlie Center, Warrenton, VA, March 14-17.
Biology and blackness: Skin color and blood pressure in the African Diaspora. Cells to Society: The Center on Social Disparities and Health, Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University. Feb. 6, 2006.
Cultural construction of ethnicity in Puerto Rico and the conceptual status of “race.” Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Florida State University. Feb. 18, 2005.
Skin color and blood pressure in the African Diaspora: culture and biology. Center for Demography and Population Health, Florida State University, Sept. 10, 2004.
What's race got to do with it? Skin color and blood pressure
in the context of culture. Dept. of Anthropology, Northwestern
University. May 23, 2003.
The role of race and ethnicity in medical social science:
the view from anthropology. Dept. of Behavioral Science, University
of Kentucky College of Medicine. Dec. 11, 2002.
Skin color, blood pressure, and the contextual effect of
culture in Puerto Rico. Dept. of Anthropology and Latin American
Studies Program, University of Kentucky. Dec. 10, 2002.
Color de Piel, Estatus Social, y Presión Arterial
en el Sureste de Puerto Rico: Una Propuesta para una Investigación
Doctoral. Prof. Marta Bustillo Hernández, Depto. de
Ciencias Sociales, Escuela de Salud Pública, Universidad
de Puerto Rico. Sept. 4, 2000.
,Deutschsein' und ,Ausländersein': Zwischenbericht
einer Feldforschung über Ethnizität in Köln.
Prof. Thomas Schweizer, Institut für Völkerkunde,
Universität zu Köln, July 11, 1997.
Der Ethnizitätsbegriff in Deutschland und den Vereiningten
Staaten. Prof. Thomas Schweizer, Institut für Völkerkunde,
Universität zu Köln, November 17, 1996.
Invited Conferences
Reconciling views of human biological variation. Heather Edgar and Keith Hunley, organizers. University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, May 24-25, 2007.
Advancing biocultural perspectives in physical anthropology (funded by NSF Physical Anthropology Program). Agustín Fuentes and Thomas McDade, organizers. University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN, Feb. 18-20, 2007.
Planning Conference for NSF Summer Workshops in Cultural
Anthropology Research Methodologies. Stuart Plattner, organizer.
Belmont Conference Center, Elkridge, MD, May 9-11, 2003.
Workshop on stability of methods for collecting, analyzing,
and managing panel data. Ricardo Godoy and Robert Hunt, organizers.
American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Cambridge, MA, March
26-28, 2003.
Fieldwork Experience
Social and Cultural Context of Racial Inequalities in Health, Tallahassee, FL. Currently launching 26-month community-based project on how the experience of racism and other social stressors influences high blood pressure and other aspects of health among African Americans, 2007-09.
Social and Physical Environments and Health Disparities, Detroit, MI. Joined community-based participatory research project designed to identify the causal pathways of ethnic and socioeconomic disparities in cardiovascular disease. Amy J. Schulz, Ph.D., Dept. of Health Behavior and Health Education, University of Michigan School of Public Health, 2002-03.
Skin Color, Culture, and Blood Pressure, Guayama, Puerto Rico. Integrated qualitative and quantitative ethnographic methods with epidemiologic and biological techniques over a year’s independent fieldwork. Developed a novel strategy for isolating cultural and biological dimensions of skin color and testing relationships with blood pressure in Puerto Ricans of mixed African ancestry, 2000-02.
East Gainesville Community Health Assessment, Gainesville, FL. Participated in interdisciplinary health assessment of underserved population targeted for new community health center. Assisted in survey sampling procedure and designed and conducted structured ethnographic interviews, focus groups, and semistructured key informant interviews. Leslie L. Clark, Ph.D., Dept. of Health Policy and Epidemiology, and Leslie Sue Lieberman, Ph.D., Dept. of Anthropology, University of Florida, 1997-98.
Ethnicity and National Identity in Germany, Köln, Germany. Conducted eight months of fieldwork using participant observation, unstructured and semistructured ethnographic interviews, and systematic methods of cultural domain analysis, 1996-97.
Academic Service
Member, African American Studies Task Force, Florida State University, 2005
Co-chair, Faculty Search Committee, Department of Anthropology, Florida State University, 2004-05
Member, Graduate Affairs Committee, Department of Anthropology, Florida State University, 2003-06
Member, Curriculum Planning Committee, Department of Anthropology, Florida State University, 2004
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