Anthropology

Carolyn Smith-Morris

Associate Professor

Ph.D. 2001 University of Arizona
Heroy Hall 415
214-768-2878

Faculty site: http://people.smu.edu/smithmor/

Research Interests: 

• Medical anthropology
• Chronic disease, especially diabetes and diseases of development
• Diagnosis
• Native Americans
• Mexican Migrants
• U.S.
• Mexico

Recent story: https://www.sapiens.org/body/diabetes-medical-anthropology/

Courses Taught:

ANTH 2301 - Introductory Cultural Anthropology
ANTH 3301 - Health, Healing and Ethics: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Sickness and Society(co-listed with CFB 3301 and SOCI 3301)
ANTH 3306 - Introduction to Medical Anthropology
ANTH 3348 - Health as a Human Right (co-listed with CFB 3348 and HRTS 3348)
ANTH 3350 - Good Eats and Forbidden Flesh: Culture, Food and the Global Grocery Market (co-listed with CFA 3350)
ANTH 4303/6303 - Political Economy of Health
ANTH 4307/6307 - Global and Public Health
ANTH 4343/6343 - Biomedicine, Culture, and Power
ANTH 5335 - History of Anthropology, Part 2
ANTH 5336 - Health in Cross-Cultural Perspective
ANTH 6312 - Contemporary Theory in Anthropology
ANTH 6316 - Advanced Seminar in Ethnology I: Chronicity and the Anthropology of Illness
ANTH 6316 - Advanced Seminar in Ethnology I: Globalization and Health