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Melanie Medeiros

Professor/Dir of Ctr Integrative Learning

Bailey 149

(585)245-6269

medeiros@geneseo.edu

Melanie A. Medeiros has been a member of the faculty since 2014.

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Office Hours

Tuesdays and Thursdays, 10:45-12:15pm

Curriculum Vitae

Education

MA, Ph.D, University of Arizona

BA, American University

Selected Publications

BOOKS:

Medeiros, M.A. and Keisha-Khan Y. Perry, eds. 2023. Black Women in Latin America and the Caribbean: Critical Research and Perspectives. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.

Medeiros, M.A. and Jennifer Guzm谩n, eds. 2023. Ethnographic Insights on Latin America and the Caribbean. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

Medeiros, M.A. 2018. Marriage, Divorce and Distress in Northeast Brazil: Black Women檚 Perspectives on Love, Respect and Kinship. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.

ARTICLES & BOOK CHAPTERS:

Perry, Keisha-Khan Y., and M.A. Medeiros. 2023. 淚ntroduction. In Black Women in Latin America and the Caribbean: Critical Research and Perspectives, edited by Melanie A. Medeiros and Keisha-Khan Y. Perry, 1-17. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.

Medeiros, M.A. 2023. 淎 Marriage without Fidelity is a House without a Foundation: Black Brazilian Women檚 Demands for Respect in Marriage. The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology 28(2): 121-130.

Medeiros, M.A., and Jennifer Guzm谩n. 2023. 淎n Ethnographic Approach to Studying Latin America and the Caribbean. In Insights on Latin America and the Caribbean: An Ethnographic Collection, edited by Melanie A. Medeiros and Jennifer Guzm谩n, 15-26. Toronto, CA: University of Toronto Press.

Medeiros, M.A. 2023. 淓motional Intimacy and the Black Matrifocal Family in Northeast Brazil. Feminist Anthropology 4(1): 78-90.

Medeiros, M.A. 2022. 淩ejecting Remarriage: Respectability & Black Brazilian Women檚 Decisions to 極pt Out of Marriage. In Opting Out: Women Messing with Marriage around the World, edited by Dinah Hannaford and Joanna Davidson, 104-120. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, Series: Politics of Marriage and Gender: Global Issues in Local Contexts.

Medeiros, M.A. 2022. 淚ntersectionality and Normative Masculinity in Northeast Brazil. Gendered Lives, Global Issues, edited by Nadine Fernandez and Katie Nelson, 170-189. Albany, NY: SUNY Press.

Medeiros, M.A., Patrick McCormick, Erika Schmitt, James Kale. 2021. 淏arbie e Ken Cidad茫os de Bem: Memes and Political Participation among College Students in Brazil. Precarious Democracy: Ethnographies of Hope, Despair, and Resistance in Brazil after the Pink Tide, edited by Benjamin Junge, Alvaro Jarrin, Lucia Cantero, and Sean T. Mitchell, 218-231. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.
敂In Portuguese: Medeiros, M.A., Patrick McCormick, Erika Schmitt, James Kale. 2022. 淏arbie e Ken Cidad茫os de Bem: Memes e Participa莽茫o Pol铆tica entre Estudantes Universit谩rios no Brasil. Em Democracia Prec谩ria: Etnografias de Esperan莽a, Desespero e Resist锚ncia no Brasil, editado por Alvaro Jarr铆n, Karina Biondi, Benjamin Junge, Sean T. Mitchell, e Lucia Cantero, 397-420. S茫o Paulo, BR: Zouk Editora.

Medeiros, M.A., J. Guzm谩n. 2020. Im/migrant Farmworker Deportability Fears and Mental Health in the Trump Era: A Study of Polimigra and Contramigra in New York State. Culture, Agriculture, Food & Environment 42(2): 1-11.

Guzm谩n, J., M.A. Medeiros. 2020. 淒amned if You Drive, Damned if You Don檛: Meso-level Policy and Im/migrant Farmworker Tactics under a Regime of Immobility. Human Organization 79(2): 14-149.

Guzm谩n, J.R., M.A. Medeiros, G. Falkner. 2020. 淭eaching Im/migration Through an Ethnographic Portrait Project. Teaching and Learning Anthropology Journal 3(1): 37-45.

Medeiros, M.A., T. Henriksen. 2019. 淔orms of Capital, Employment and Whiteness in Northeast Brazil檚 Ecotourism Industry. Latin American Research Review 54(2): 366-380.
敂Abridged and revised as 淪tructural Racism and Occupational Segregation in Northeast Brazil檚 Ecotourism Industry for Insights on Latin America and the Caribbean: An Ethnographic Collection, edited by M.A. Medeiros and J. Guzm谩n, 429-440. Toronto, CA: University of Toronto Press.

Jennifer R. Guzm谩n, J.R., M.A. Medeiros. 2019. 淎n Unlikely Cause: The Struggle for Driver檚 Licenses to Prevent Family Separation. Practicing Anthropology 41(1): 3-7.

Medeiros, M.A., J. Guzm谩n. 2016. 淓thnographic Service Learning: An Approach for Transformational Learning.漈eaching Anthropology 6(1): 66-72.

Nichter, M., M.A. Medeiros. 2015. 淐ritical Anthropology for Global Health: What Can It Contribute to Critical Health Psychology? In Critical Health Psychology, edited by M. Murray. Pp. 291-307. London: Palgrave Macmillan Press.

Medeiros, M.A. 2014. 淭he Other End of the Bargain: the Socioeconomics of Gender Relations and Marital Dissolution in Rural Northeast Brazil. Transforming Anthropology 22(1): 105-120.

M. Hingle, M. Nichter, M.A. Medeiros, S. Grace. 2013. 淭exting for Health: The Use of Participatory Methods to Develop Healthy Lifestyle Messages for Teens. Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior 45(1): 12-19.

Previously Taught Courses

  • ANTH 100: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
  • ANTH 141: Department of Anthropology First Year Experience
  • ANTH 216: Race, Racism and the Black Experience in Bahia, Brazil (Study Abroad)
  • ANTH 216: Race, Racism and the Black Experience in Cuba (Study Abroad)
  • ANTH 216: Race, Racism and the Black Experience in the Americas
  • ANTH 226: Anthropology of Latin America and the Caribbean
  • ANTH 238: Ethnomedicine in Latin America and the Caribbean
  • ANTH 241: Department of Anthropology Peer Mentor Program
  • ANTH 302: Medical Anthropology
  • ANTH 313: Global Health Issues
  • ANTH 343: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Women檚 Health
  • ANTH 382: Ethnographic Field Methods
  • ANTH 402: Sociomedical Sciences Capstone
  • ANTH 421: Contemporary Theory in Anthropology
  • BLKS 188: Race, Racism and Health
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