Faculty Member, Anthropology
About
Heide Castañeda is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of South Florida. She received a PhD in Anthropology from the University of Arizona (2007) and a MPH from the University of Texas School of Public Health (2002).
Her primary research areas include migrant and refugee health, unauthorized/undocumented/”illegal” labor migration, health inequalities, and health policy, and are geographically focused on Germany and the United States. Recent projects have examined topics ranging from access to health care, women’s health, communicable disease, mental health, and oral health. Castañeda is also an instructor at the Globalization and Community Health Summer Field School at the Monteverde Institute in Costa Rica.
Her work has appeared in the journals Social Science & Medicine, Medical Anthropology Quarterly, Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, Medical Anthropology, Health Promotion Practice, American Journal of Health Behavior, Patient Education and Counseling, Depression Research and Treatment, Social Work in Health Care, Human Organization, Anthropological Journal of European Cultures and Annals of Anthropological Practice. She has contributed to The Deportation Regime: Sovereignty, Space, and the Freedom of Movement (Duke University Press, 2010), Gender and Illegal Migration in Global and Historical Perspective (IMSCOE/Amsterdam University Press, 2008) and Transnational Migration to Israel in Global Comparative Context (Lexington Press, 2007).
2011-2012 Fulbright Recipient
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