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Jerome : Curriculum Vitae

EDUCATION

 

1/1999 – 8/2000          National Cancer Institute Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of Texas Health Science Center – Houston, School of Public Health.

9/1991 – 12/1998        Ph.D., Anthropology, (Medical Anthropology), University of Pittsburgh.

5/1994                         Graduate Certificate in Latin American Studies, Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS), University of Pittsburgh.

8/1985 – 12/1989        B.A., Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin.

PUBLISHED

 

Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals

 

  1. Ventres and J. Crowder. When I say… anthropological gaze. Medical Education Vol. 52, No. 6, Pp. 590-591. 2018. DOI:10.1111/medu.13502

 

  1. Crowder. Commentary on “The Affective Lens” Anthropology and Humanism Vol. 42, No. 2, Pp. 180-188. 2017. DOI:10.1111/anhu.12188

 

  1. Cartwright and J. Crowder. Dissecting Images: Multimodal Medical Anthropology. Medical Anthropology. Special Issue. Vol. 36, No. 6. Pp. 515-518. 2017. DOI:10.1080/01459740.2017.1334058

 

  1. Crowder. Visualizing Tensions in an Ethnographic Moment: A Systematic Analysis of Images and Intersubjectivity. Medical Anthropology. Vol. 36, No. 6, Pp. 584-601. 2017. DOI:10.108/01459740.2017.1315572.

 

  1. Crowder, Marion, J. S., Reilly, M. File Naming in Digital Media Research: Examples from the

Humanities and Social Sciences. Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication. Vol. 3, No. 3. eP1260. December 2015. DOI:10.7710/2162-3309.1260.

 

  1. Brody, H., Croisant, S., Crowder, Banda, J. Ethical issues in Patient-Centered outcomes Research and Comparative Effectiveness Research: A Pilot Study of Community Dialogue. Journal for Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics, Vol. 10, No. 1, Pp. 22-30. 2015.

(IF=1.250) DOI:10.1177/1556264614568426. (corresponding author)

 

  1. Fortun, K., Fortun, M., Bigras, E., Saheb, T., Costelloe-Kuehn, B., Crowder, Price, D., Kenner, A.

Experimental Ethnography Online: The asthma files. Cultural Studies Vol. 28, No. 4, Pp. 632-642. July 2014. DOI: 10.1080/09502386.2014.888923

 

  1. Crowder. Becoming Luis: A Photo Essay on growing up in Bolivia. Visual Anthropology Review, Vol. 29, No. 2, Pp. 107-120. 2013. (IF=0.7) DOI: 10.1111/var.12008

REPRINTED in Open Anthropology 2(3), October 2014.

 

  1. Crowder, J. Wilson & E. Vredenburg. Wireless Networking in an underserved neighborhood: Evolving Ethnographic Methods for Understanding technology and culture. Practicing Anthropology, Vol. 31, No. 1, Pp. 11-15. 2009. ISSN:0888-4552 (Print)

 

  1. Crowder. Living on the Edge: A Photographic Essay on Urban Aymara Migrants in El Alto, Bolivia. Visual Anthropology, Vol. 16, No. 2, Pp. 263-287. 2003. (IF=0.65) DOI:10.1080/08949460310024

 

  1. Wayland and J. Crowder. Disparate Views of Community in Primary Health Care: How Perceptions Influence Success. Medical Anthropology Quarterly Vol. 16, No. 2, Pp. 230-247. 2002. (IF= 1.938) DOI: 10.1525/maq.2002.16.2.230

Books

 

  1. Crowder, M. Fortun, R. Besara, L. Poirier, editors. Anthropological Data in the Digital Age: New Possibilities- New Challenges. Palgrave MacMillan Publishers. (Under contract for publication in spring 2019).

 

  1. S. Marion & J. Crowder. The Visual Research Handbook: A comprehensive Guide to Issues, Approaches and Methods. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. (under contract for publication in fall 2019).

 

  1. S. Marion & J. Crowder. Visual Research: A Concise Introduction for Thinking Visually. Bloomsbury Academic Press: London. 2013. ISBN-10: 085785206X

 

Dissertation

 

  1. Crowder. We Just Live Here: Health Decision Making and the Myth of Community in El Alto, Bolivia. Ph.D. Dissertation. Department of Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh, December 1998.

 

Book Chapters

 

  1. Crowder, M. Fortun, R. Besara, and L. Poirier. Digital Data and the Future of Anthropological Research. IN Anthropological Data in the Digital Age: New Possibilities- New Challenges. J. Crowder, M. Fortun, R. Besara, L. Poirier, eds. Palgrave MacMillan Publishers. Forthcoming in spring 2019.

 

  1. Crowder and A.L. Macdonald. Wearing a Cloak and Many Hats: Expectation of Anthropologists in an Academic Health Science Center. IN Sustaining Anthropological Engagement in Medical Education: Making Anthropology Matter in the Training of Physicians. I.L. Martinez and D. Wiedman, eds. Springer Press. Forthcoming summer 2019.

 

  1. Determeyer and J. Crowder. Community Dialogues. IN Research Methods in Health Humanities. C. Klugman & E. Lamb, eds. Oxford University Press. Forthcoming fall 2018.

 

  1. Crowder and E. Cartwright. Photo editors. J. Crowder, and E. Cartwright, About the Images. IN The Routledge Handbook of Medical Anthropology. L. Manderson, E. Cartwright and A. Hardon, eds. 2016. Pp: xii-xiii. ISBN: 978-1-13-801563-0.

 

  1. Crowder. Photo elicitation as social science research. IN The Photography Handbook. Media Practice series. T. Wright. Routledge, 3rd edition. 2016. Pp 164-172. ISBN: 978-0415533034.

 

  1. Fortun, K. Fortun, B. Costelloe-Kuehn, T. Saheb, D. Price, A. Kenner, & J. Crowder. Asthma, Culture and Cultural Analysis: Continuing Challenges. 2013. IN Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology: Heterogeneity in Asthma. A. Braiser, ed. Ch. 20. pp 321-332. New York: Springer. ISBN-10: 1461486025

 

  1. Crowder. Aymara Migrants in El Alto, Bolivia: A Photographic Essay. 2007. IN Ethnic Landscapes in an Urban World. R. Hutchinson & J. Krase, eds. Research in Urban Sociology Series. Elsevier Press. Vol. 8, pp. 181-195. ISBN-13: 978-0762313211

 

 

Essays, Editorials and White Papers

 

  1. Crowder and P. Determeyer—Let’s have a dialogue on health care issues. Galveston Daily News. April 8, 2017.

 

  1. Crowder. How to Design a Great Poster. Anthropology News. http://www.anthropology-news.org/index.php/2016/04/15/how-to-design-a-great-poster/

 

  1. Crowder, T. Wright, D. Price (eds.). The Visual Image and the Future of the Medical Humanities. Catalog. May 2014. 74 pgs. Blurb. ISBN: 978-0-692-20722-2.

 

  1. Price, J. Crowder, R. Koontz & I. Konstantinidis. Vwire: Digital Content Management Through Spatial Arrangement – a Tool for Visual Argumentation in the Humanities. National Endowment for the Humanities, White Paper. March, 2014.

 

  1. S. Marion & J. Crowder. Organizing Your Digital World. Anthropology News. Vol. 54, No. 3-4, pp. 20-22. March 2013. (Print & Digital) DOI: 10.1111/j.1556-3502.2013.54202.x

 

  1. Crowder. Unleashing the Power of the Digital Pen. Anthropology News. Vol. 54, No. 2, February 2013. DOI:10.1111/j 1556-3502.2013.54202.x (Digital version only)

 

  1. Crowder, J. Wilson, E. Vredenburg & S. Laroia. Untangling Misunderstandings. Anthropology News. Vol. 49, No. 5, p. 70. May 2008. DOI:10.1525/an.2008.49.5.69.2

 

  1. Crowder. Visual Anthropology. 2006. IN Encyclopedia of Anthropology. H. J. Birx, ed. Sage. Pp. 187-196. ISBN-10: 0761930299

 

  1. Crowder. Revealing Images: Migrant Peruvians Photograph Their Lives. SPOT Vol. 23, No. 1, pp.21-22. 2005.

 

  1. Crowder. Ethnography from the Field: Student/Researcher Interaction in the Peruvian Andes. Anthropology News. Vol. 46, No. 1, p.31. January 2005. DOI:10.1525/an.2005.46.1.31

 

  1. Crowder. Travels with Diana: A Visual Ethnographer Goes Global. SPOT Vol. 22, No. 1, pp.14-16. 2004.

 

Book and Film Reviews

 

  1. Crowder. Film Review in Anthropology News, Society for Urban, National and Transnational/Global Anthropology. August 2015. Plastic Paradise: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch (57 mins, Color) 2014; Angela Sun. Bull Frog Films. DOI:10.1111/j.1556-3502.2015.560802.x

 

  1. Crowder. Book review in Visual Anthropology Review. Arnold, D. The Metamorphosis of Heads. 2006. University of Pittsburgh Press. May 2009, Vol. 25, No. 1, pp.72-74. DOI:10.1111/j.1548-7458.2009.01014.x

 

  1. Crowder. Book Review in American Ethnologist. Blankenship, J. Cañar: A Year in the Highlands of Ecuador. 2005. University of Texas Press. August 2006, 33(3):3007-3008. 7 JAN 2008 | DOI: 10.1525/ae.2006.33.3.3007

 

Book Reviews of my Publications

Visual Research: A Concise Introduction to Thinking Visually. Bloomsbury Academic: London. 2013.

 

  1. Panakova, J. Visual Anthropology 28(2):186-88. 2015. DOI: 10.1080/08949468.2015.996582
  2. Pennington, H. Qualitative Research 15(4):544-45. 2015. DOI:10.1177/1468794114560554
  3. De Rapper, G. Compte rendu d’ouvrage. 2014, pp. 137-38. Halshs-01116635

Munro, E. Visual Anthropology Review 29(2):156-57. 2013. DOI: 10.1111/var.12013

PROFESSIONAL AND TEACHING EXPERIENCE

 

University of Texas Medical Branch

8/2018 – present          Associate Professor, Institute for the Medical Humanities, Galveston, Texas.

9/2010 – 8/2018          Assistant Professor, Institute for the Medical Humanities, Galveston, Texas.

10/2013 – present                    Translational Faculty Member, Institute for Translational Sciences.

 

University of Houston

8/2009 – 8/2010          Assistant Dean for Technology & Communication, College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, University of Houston, Houston, TX.

8/2006 – 1/2009          Associate Director, Visual Studies Program, U. Houston, Houston, TX.

5/2006 – 8/2009          Principal Investigator, Abramson Center for the Future of Health, The Methodist Hospital Research Institute and the University of Houston. Houston, TX.

5/2006 – 8/2010          Assistant Research Professor, U. Houston, Department of Anthropology. Houston, TX.

8-12/2003                    Fulbright Scholar, Center for the International Exchange of Scholars. Universidad Nacional del Altiplano, Puno, Perú.

8/2002 – 8/2010          Research Faculty, Texas Learning and Computation Center (TLC2), University of Houston, Houston, TX.

1/2001 – 4/2006          Lecturer, University of Houston, Department of Anthropology. Houston, TX.

 

Visiting Professorships

1/2010 – 8/2010          Visiting Scholar, Institute for the Medical Humanities, UTMB. Galveston, TX.

 

7/2008, 7/2009,

7/2012, 7/2013            Instructor for NSF sponsored class in Visual Methods & Analysis, Department of Anthropology, U. Florida.

6/2009                         Visiting Professor to teach Medical Anthropology in the Andes. University of Colorado at Colorado Springs (UCCS)

8/2003 – 12/2003        Universidad Nacional del Altiplano—Puno, Perú

8/2001 – 12/2001        Semester at Sea, Institute for Shipboard Education

 

RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

 

Areas of Research

  • Community Dialogue and Engagement surrounding chronic health issues and aging
  • Health Decision making in underserved communities (US & Latin America), health disparities
  • Role of Technology for health applications in underserved populations
  • Visual Ethnography (still photography and video applications)
  • Urbanization and Migration in Latin America (Andes) and the US (Houston & Galveston, Texas)

 

Grant Support

Current

3/18                         Institute of Museum and Library Services and American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works. Collections Assessment for Preservation (CAP). Project . Co-Director with P.A. Summerly. Old Red Medical Museum, Office of the President. $7,800.

 

Pending

 

5/18                         National Endowment for the Humanities. Promotion of the Humanities of Preservation and Access. Preservation Assistance Grants. “UTMB’s Old Red Medical Museum Project: Implementing an Environmental Monitoring Regimen, Upgrading Shelving and Disaster Planning”. Project. Co-Director with P.A. Summerly. Old Red Medical Museum, Office of the President. $5,203.

 

Unfunded

5/17                         National Institutes of Health. Center for Equity in Value-based Healthcare. Project #2: “Community Dialogues to Identify Ethical Issues in Value-based healthcare”. Co-Project Director , 25% effort. $7.3M combined / $1.03M over 5 years for Project #2. K. Ottenbacher, PI. Division of Rehabilitation Science, School of Health Professions. UTMB.

 

11/16                       National Endowment for the Humanities, Promotion of the Humanities, Division of Preservation and Access, Sustaining Cultural Heritage Collections. “Developing a Specimen Collection’s Preservation Plan for the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston.” Principal Investigator, 1% effort. $40K.

Past

 

5/2013 – 5/2016      Agency for Health Care Research and Quality (AHRQ): Patient Centered Outcomes Research in the Elderly (PCOR), National Institutes of Health. James S. Goodwin, PI. Sealy Center on Aging, UTMB. Jerome Crowder, Program director for Project 3, “Community Dialogue to Identify Issues in Patient-Centered Outcomes Research”. Principal Investigator, 30% effort. $4.97M combined, $570K for Project 3.

 

6/2012 – 5/2014      Humanities Texas: “Please Let Me Die:” “Dax’s Case” and the Human Dimensions of Bioethics. Funding to produce film and webpage on Dax Cowart. Project Director. $10,000 total.

 

8/2011 – 8/ 2012     National Endowment for the Humanities Digital Start-up Grant: VWire: Digital Content Management through Spatial Arrangement- a tool for visual argumentation in the Humanities. (U. Houston collaborators: Price, Koontz & Konstantinidis). Co-PI. 5% effort. $50,000 total.

 

9/2011 – 9/2014      Dept. of Commerce, Broadband Technology Opportunities Program (BTOP): SBA: Sustainable Broadband Adoption through Training for Hispanic Adults. In collaboration with the Mexican Institute of Greater Houston (Carlos Jose Lopez, director) and U. Houston. Co-PI. 2% effort. $596,000 at UH. $2.6M combined.

 

8/ 2008 – 8/ 2011    HCC-Medium: Collaborative Research: Understanding and Optimizing Wireless Mobile Computing for Underserved Urban Communities. National Science Foundation. IIS. $136,000. PI, 12.5% effort. (Rice U. collaborators: Knightly, Zhong, Kortum). $648,000 combined.

 

6/2007 – 6/2009      NeTS-WN: Collaborative Research: Mesh Networks for Under-Served Urban Communities: Engaging Users and Integrating Mobile Access and Health Sensing. National Science Foundation. CNS. $162,000. PI, 12.5% effort. (Rice U. collaborators: Knightly, Zhong). $525,000 combined.

 

5/2008– 4/2009       Curriculum Development Award, Division of Educational Technology and Outreach, University of Houston, for video podcast: Anthropodium. $5,000. PI.

 

5/2008 – 4/2009      Curriculum Development Award, Division of Educational Technology and Outreach, University of Houston, for Visual Studies program. $8,000. PI.

 

5/2007 – 4/2008      Curriculum Development Award, Division of Educational Technology and Outreach, University of Houston, for video podcast: Anthropodium. $5,000. PI.

 

8/2003 – 12/2003       Fulbright Research / Teaching Award, Center for the International Exchange of Scholars, Universidad Nacional del Altiplano, Puno, Perú. $15,000. PI.

 

6/2003 – 12/2003       Curriculum Development Award, Division of Educational Technology and Outreach, University of Houston, for the fall of 2003 to conduct distance teaching from Perú in applied anthropology. $4,000.

 

International Research Experience

5/2011 – 6/2011      El Alto, Bolivia. Complete longitudinal study on OTC meds in corner stores, visual ethnography with Aymara families.

5/2007 – 6/2011      El Alto, Bolivia. Complete longitudinal study on OTC meds in corner stores, visual ethnography with Aymara families.

6/2005 – 7/2005      Puno, Perú & El Alto, Bolivia. Follow-up research with Aymara migrants.

8/2003 – 12/2003       Puno, Perú. Visual ethnography with migrant Aymara in the department of Puno.

5/2000 – 8/2000      El Alto, Bolivia. Repatriated data to residents and continued research on Aymara migration, health, and the use of over-the-counter medications.

4/1997 – 7/1997      El Alto, Bolivia. Conducted archival and follow-up research on community and health.

5/1995 – 7/1996      El Alto, Bolivia. Conducted doctoral research on health care decision making of urban Aymara migrants.

5/1993 – 8/1993      El Alto, Bolivia. Researched indigenous medical practices of Aymara migrants.

9/1990 – 5/1991      Bolivia, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, Brazil, Perú, and Ecuador. Traveled through South America exploring potential dissertation research sites.

6/1990 – 8/1990      La Paz, Bolivia. Collaborated with Geographical Society of La Paz studying indigenous health practices of Aymara residents in the city.

6/1989 – 8/1989      Bolivia and northern Chile. Studied Kallawaya medical beliefs and practices.

6/1985 – 8/1985      Kenya. Lived with Maasai observing use of rural biomedical facilities.

 

 

Domestic Research Experience

5/2011 – present     Health Disparities, community suffering, Dialogs and Patient Centered Outcomes

5/2006 – 8/2010      Technology, health and culture in an underserved Houston neighborhood. Working with RICE (ECE) / Technology for All Wireless mesh network and residents. Funded by National Science Foundation Award $150K (Crowder, PI).

1/1999 – 4/2000      Management of Asthma Study. CHPRD. UTSPH. Qualitative Methods Research and Analysis. Supported by NCI Postdoctoral Fellowship.