Dr. Deirdre Guthrie recent prublications

Book Chapters

 “The ALIVE! Project: Understanding the Intersection Between Faith and Soul Food Using Participatory Research” in Ethnographic Approaches to Health and Wellbeing Research, Paul M. W. Hackett and Chris Hayre, editors, Routledge Press. (November 2020). 

 “Using Ethnography to Understand how Pasantes ‘walk with’ their Patients” in Ethnographic Approaches to Health and Wellbeing Research, Paul M. W. Hackett and Chris Hayre, editors, Routledge Press. (November 2020). 

 “The Lived Experience of Dignity" in The Practice of Human Development and Dignity. Paolo G. Carozza and Clemens Sedmak, editors. The University of Notre Dame Press. (November 2019).

 “Birthing the Mother as Social Scientist,” in Mothering from the Field: the Impact of Motherhood on Site-based Research, Bahiyyah Muhammad and Melanie Angela Neuilly, editors, Rutgers Press (June 2019).

Journal Articles 

 “Haitian Migrant Borderwork in a Dominican Coastal Town” in Migration Studies. Oxford Press. June 2017. 

White Papers

 Deirdre Guthrie, David Addiss and Leslie Leonard. "Staff wellbeing and Sustainable Engagement in Humanitarian organizations”, The Global Health Task Force and Heifer International, Atlanta, GA. 2019 

 “Wellbeing and Aspiration in the Developing World” January 2016.

"Organizational Culture at a Catholic NGO: examining the polarity of Mission and Metrics", December 2016.

"Gender Dynamics at a Catholic NGO", preliminary internal report, December 2016.

“The Crisis in Care Work: The Call for Compassionate Medicine” September 1, 2015.

Teaching Areas

Caregiving and Globalization
Medical Anthropology (theory and method)
Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
Intimate Economies/Affective Labor (across culture)
Women, Globalization and Social Change (Honors)
Gender Studies Theory and Methods (Capstone)
Organizational Change Leadership and Design Thinking
Participatory Ethnographic Methods in Action Research

Conference Presentations  

2019 March 28 -30
“The Mother as Social Scientist”
Engaging Millennials: Researching and Teaching about Power, Diversity, and Change
Pacific Sociological Association
Oakland, Ca.

May 30 - June 1
“Navigating the Moral Distress of Clinical Practice”
Social Medicine Conference
Chiapas, Mexico

2018 “Navigating the Moral Distress of the Field” at Global Health Fieldwork Ethics Workshop,
Agnes Scott College, Atlanta, Ga.

2017 “Learning to Practice Social Medicine and Sustainable Accompaniment in Chiapas”
Compassion in Action Conference
Schwartz Center for Compassionate Healthcare
Boston, Ma.

2016 “La Enormidad: Becoming a Physician of the People in the Sierra Madre Mountain
Communities”
Incoherence: Disorder, Normativity,
Anthropology American Ethnological Society Spring Meeting
Washington D.C.

“Well-being at Work and the Accompagnateur in Chiapas, Mexico”
Panel: Informing Accompaniment through Research in Practice
Discussant for “Accompaniment as Relational Process”
Arlene Katz, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard
Medical School
From Aid to Accompaniment: a New Way of Thinking about Delivering Foreign Aid
Kellogg Institute University of Notre Dame