People
Heide Castañeda
Professor and Associate Chair
contact
Office: SOC 123
Email: hcastaneda@usf.edu
Education
- Ph.D., Anthropology, University of Arizona
- MPH, Public Health, University of Texas
- MA, Anthropology, University of Texas at San Antonio
Teaching
Research Design & Proposal Writing, Anthropological Theory Today, Anthropology of Health Policy, Theory in Medical Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Health & Medical Systems, Global Health from an Anthropological Perspective
Research
Legal anthropology, medical anthropology, Mexico, Germany, Morocco
Current Projects
- "Migrant Communities: Effects of Demographic Characteristics on Placemaking under Uncertain Timelines" (funded by the National Science Foundation Award # 2149059)
- "Mixed-Status Families and Citizenship in the Contemporary Migration Experience" (funded by the National Science Foundation Award # 1535664 & the Wenner-Gren Foundation)
- "Legal Status and the Social and Emotional Well-Being of Young Adult Immigrants" (funded by the National Science Foundation Award # 1729396)
- "Amazigh Diaspora in the United States"
Recent Publications
Books
- Amazigh in America: Remaking North African Indigeneity in the Diaspora. New York University Press, forthcoming.
- Migration and Health: Critical Perspectives. Routledge, 2023.
- Borders of Belonging: Struggle and Solidarity in Mixed-Status Immigrant Families. Stanford University Press, 2019.
- Unequal Coverage: The Experience of Health Care Reform in the United States. Mulligan, Jessica & Castañeda, Heide, editors. NYU Press, 2018.
Select Articles & Chapters
- Castañeda, Heide and Amine Bit (2024) “Do I Really Need to Check that Box?” Ethnoracial Ambiguity among Indigenous North Africans in the United States. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies..
- Castañeda, Heide (2023) Tamazgha as Indigeneity-Informed Approach Transforming Scholarship on Borders and Migration. Tamazgha Studies Journal 1(1): 45-54.
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Castañeda, Heide (2022) Anthropological Approaches to Migration and Health. In A Companion to Medical Anthropology, Second Edition, Wiley.
- Smith, Sarah A. and Castañeda, Heide (2021) Nonimmigrant Others: Belonging and Precarity of Imperial Citizenship for Chuukese Migrants in Guam. PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review.
- Logan, Ryan, Melo, Milena A, and Castañeda, Heide (2021) Familial Vulnerability: Legal Status and Mental Health Within Mixed-Status Families. Medical Anthropology 40(7): 639-652.
- Castañeda, Heide, Holmes, Seth M., Madrigal, Daniel S., Young, Maria-Elena DeTrinidad, Beyerle, Naomi, and Quesada, James (2015) Immigration as a Social Determinant of Health. Annual Review of Public Health 36:375-392.
Graduate Students
Rachel Kingsley, Amanda Leppert Gomes, Laura Parada Perla, Mahir Rahman, and Augusta Herman