Carolyn Smith-Morris, Ph.D. Professor School School of Public Health Department Public Health Biography Download Curriculum Vitae Dr. Smith-Morris is a medical anthropologist with expertise in chronic and complex illness (particularly diabetes), mixed methodologies including community- and home-based participatory research, program evaluation, and health services research among minority and Indigenous communities. Her CBPR research has engaged Amazonian Kichwa in Ecuador, Gila River (Akimel O’odham) Indian Community of Southern Arizona, Australian Peak Hill Wiradjuri, Mexicans and Mexican immigrants to the U.S., and a number of groups in the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex. She has contributed critical insights to strategies in neighborhood (place) based stigma (NSF funded study of COVID experience in 2 Dallas neighborhoods), values of family- and community-centeredness (NSF funded studies in Ecuador), and health equity (GoogleHealth funded study of diabetes retinopathy screening experience). Dr. Smith-Morris has trained and led collaborative teams in urban, rural, and remote settings and specializes in training and collaboration with community health workers and community research assistants. Dr. Smith-Morris received her B.A. in Anthropology from Emory University, an M.S. in Rehabilitation Services from Florida State University, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Anthropology from The University of Arizona. She is a settler, cisgender female professor and researcher with a strong interest in training graduate, mixed-methods researchers. She publishes to a broad, interdisciplinary audience through journals such as: Social Science & Medicine, Nutrients, Medical Anthropology Quarterly, BMC Health Services Research, Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, and PLOS-One. She has published 5 books including two single-author ethnographies (Indigenous Communalism by Rutgers U. Press and Diabetes Among the Pima by U. Arizona Press), and three edited volumes (Countering Modernity with César Abadía-Barrero by Routledge Press; Diagnostic Controversy by Routledge Press, and Chronic Conditions, Fluid States with Lenore Manderson, Rutgers U. Press). Publications Featured Publications A community health worker led diabetes self-management education program: Reducing patient and system burden. Porterfield L, Yu X, Warren V, Bowen ME, Smith-Morris C, Vaughan EM, J Diabetes Complications 2024 Jun 38 8 108794 Moral Distress Under Structural Violence: Clinician Experience in Brazil Caring for Low-Income Families of Children with Severe Disabilities. Sale ACG, Smith-Morris C, Camb Q Healthc Ethics 2023 Jan 1-13 Indigenous sovereignty, data sourcing, and knowledge sharing for health. Smith-Morris C, Juaréz-López BM, Tapia A, Shahim B, Glob Public Health 2022 Nov 17 11 2665-2675 Professional competition amidst intractable maternal mortality: Midwifery in rural Pakistan during the COVID-19 pandemic. Siddiqui S, Smith-Morris C, Soc Sci Med 2022 Nov 313 115426 Decolonizing Care at Diagnosis: Culture, History, and Family at an Urban Inter-tribal Clinic. Smith-Morris C, Rodriguez S, Soto R, Spencer M, Meneghini L, Med Anthropol Q 2021 Sep 35 3 364-385 Diabetic Retinopathy and the Cascade into Vision Loss. Smith-Morris C, Bresnick GH, Cuadros J, Bouskill KE, Pedersen ER, Med Anthropol 2020 39 2 109-122 Blind spots in telemedicine: a qualitative study of staff workarounds to resolve gaps in diabetes management. Bouskill K, Smith-Morris C, Bresnick G, Cuadros J, Pedersen ER, BMC Health Serv Res 2018 Aug 18 1 617 An ethnography on perceptions of pain in Dutch "Natural" childbirth. Logsdon K, Smith-Morris C, Midwifery 2017 Dec 55 67-74 Epidemiological placism in public health emergencies: Ebola in two Dallas neighborhoods. Smith-Morris C, Soc Sci Med 2017 Apr 179 106-114 The traditional food of migrants: Meat, water, and other challenges for dietary advice. An ethnography in Guanajuato, Mexico. Smith-Morris C, Appetite 2016 Oct 105 430-8 Results 1-10 of 17 1 2 Next Last Books Featured Books Diabetes Among the Pima: Stories of Survival Carolyn Smith-Morris (2006). Tucson, AZ, The University of Arizona Press Indigenous Communalism: Belonging, Healthy Communities, and Decolonizing the Collective Carolyn Smith-Morris (2020). New Brunswick, NJ, Rutgers University Press Chronic Conditions, Fluid States: Chronicity and the Anthropology of Illness Lenore Manderson and Carolyn Smith-Morris (Ed.) (2010). New Brunswick, NJ, Rutgers University Press Diagnostic Controversy: Cultural Perspectives on Competing Knowledge in Healthcare Carolyn Smith-Morris (Ed.) (2015). New York, NY, Routledge Publishing Countering Modernity: Communal and Cooperative Models from Indigenous Peoples Carolyn Smith-Morris and Cesar Abadia-Barrero (Ed.) (2024). Routledge Professional Associations/Affiliations American Anthropological Association (1995) American Public Health Association (2022) Society for Applied Anthropology (2000) Society for Medical Anthropology (1995)
