 Dr. Jennifer Hirsch's
research focuses on gender, sexuality, and reproductive
health, U.S.-Mexico migration and migrant health, the
applications of anthropological theory and methods to
public health research and programs, and faith-based
approaches to public health. Her published work has
appeared in journals such as American Journal of Public
Health and Culture Health and Sexuality, and in 2002,
the University of California Press published her
landmark study, "A Courtship After Marriage: Sexuality
and Love in Mexican Transnational Families", exploring
changing ideas and practices of love, sexuality and
marriage among Mexicans in the U.S. and in Mexico. Her
major current project is an NIH-funded comparative
ethnographic study that explores the factors that put
married women at risk for HIV infection in five
countries; Mexico, Nigeria, Uganda, Vietnam, and
Papua-New Guinea.
EDUCATION
|
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ |
B.A. |
1988 |
History |
|
Johns
Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
|
Ph.D. |
1998
|
Population Dynamics and Anthropology |
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
| 1990-1991 |
Program
Assistant, Advocates for Youth (Center
for Population Options), Washington, DC |
| 1992 |
Program
Assistant, Casa de Passagem, Recife,
Brazil |
| 1992 |
Summer
Intern, Behavioral Epidemiology and
Demographic Research Branch, Division
of Reproductive Health, National Center
for Disease Prevention and Health
Promotion, Centers for Disease Control,
Atlanta, GA |
| 1992-1993 |
Research
Assistant, Department of Population
Dynamics, Johns Hopkins School of
Hygiene and Public Health, Baltimore,
MD |
| 1993-1994 |
Research
Assistant, Department of International
Health, Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene
and Public Health, Baltimore, MD |
| 1994-1995 |
Teaching
Assistant, Department of Population
Dynamics, Johns Hopkins School of
Hygiene and Public Health, Baltimore,
MD |
| 1994-1995 |
Teaching
Assistant, Department of International
Health, Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene
and Public Health, Baltimore, MD |
| 1994-1995 |
Research
Assistant, Department of Population
Dynamics, Johns Hopkins School of
Hygiene and Public Health, Baltimore,
MD |
| 1998-1999 |
Visiting
Assistant Professor, Department of
International Health, Rollins School of
Public Health, Atlanta, GA |
| 1999-2004 |
Assistant
Professor, Department of International
Health; Associate Director, Emory AIDS
International Training and Research
Program; Associate Faculty, Institute
for Women's Studies, Joint Appointment,
Department of Anthropology, Rollins
School of Public Health, Emory
University, Atlanta, GA |
| 2004-present |
Associate
Professor, Department of Sociomedical
Sciences, Columbia University Mailman
School of Public Health, New York, NY |
| 2004-present |
Co-Director, Interdisciplinary Research Methods
Core, HIV Center for Clinical and
Behavioral Studies, New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, NY |
HONORS AND AWARDS
| 1988 |
Summa Cum
Laude & Phi Beta Kappa, Princeton
University |
| 1992 |
Pre-doctoral Trainee, National
Institutes of Health Multidisciplinary
Training Grant in Population Dynamics |
| 1995-1997 |
Support
for Dissertation Data Collection in
Mexico, The Mellon Funding Committee,
Department of Population Dynamics |
| 1996-1996 |
Doctoral
Disesertation Research imporvement
Grant, Cultural Anthropology Program,
National Science Foundation |
| 1997 |
Dissertation Research Fellowship,
Committee on International Migration,
Social Science Research Council |
| 1997 |
Carl S.
Schultz Award, Department of Population
Dynamics, Johns Hopkins University |
| 1999 |
Center
for AIDS Research Developmental Core
Grant for "Mexican Migrant Men in the
Urban South: Social Ties and HIV Risk" |
| 1999 |
Paul and
Esther Harper Endowment Award,
Department of Population Dynamics and
Family Health Sciences, Johns Hopkins
University |
PUBLICATIONS
Hirsch, J. (1990). Between
the missionaries' position and the missionary
position: Mexican dirty jokes and the public
(sub) version of sexuality. Critical Matrix:
Princeton Working Papers in Women's Studies, 5,
1-27.
Barker, G., Hirsch, J., & Neidell, S.
(1991). Serving the future: An update on
adolescent pregnancy prevention programs in
developing countries. Washington, DC: CPO.
Yinger, N., de Sherbinim, A., Ochoa, L.H.,
Morris, L., & Hirsch, J. (1992). La actividad
sexual y la maternidad entre las adolescentes
en America Latina y el caribe: Riesgos y
consecuencias. Washington, DC: Population
Reference Bureau, Macro International and the
Centers for Disease Control.
Hirsch, J.S., Nathanson, C.A. (1998).
Demografia informal: Como utilizar las redes
sociales para construir una muestra etnografica
sistematica de mujeres mexicanas en ambos ladod
de la frontera. Estudios Demograficos y de
Desarollo Urbano, Mexico, D.F; El Colegio de
Mexico 12, 177-99.
Hirsch, J.S. (1999). En el norte la mujer
manda: Gender, generation and geography in a
Mexican transnational community. American
Behavioral Scientist, 42, 1332-1349.
Hirsch, J.S. (2000). Because he misses his
normal life back home: Masculinity, sexuality
and AIDS risk behavior in a Mexican migrant
community. Migration World Magazine, 28, 30-32.
Hirsch, J.S. (2000). En el norte la mujer
manda: Gender, generation and geography in a
Mexican transnational community. In N. Foner,
R. Rumbaut, & S. Gold (Eds.), Immigration
research for a new century (pp. 369-389). New
York: Russell Sage.
Hirsch, J.S., & Nathanson, C.A. (2001). Some
traditional methods are more modern than
others: Rhythm, withdrawal and the changing
meanings of gender and sexual intimacy in the
Mexican companionate marriage. Culture, Health
and Sexuality, 3, 413-28.
Hirsch, J.S. (2002). Que, pues, con el
pinche NAFTA?: Gender, power and migration
between Western Mexico and Atlanta. Urban
Anthropology, 31, 351-87, 2002.
Hirsch, J.S., Higgins J., Bentley M., &
Nathanson C. (2002). The cultural constructions
of sexuality: Marital infidelity and STD/HIV
risk in a Mexican migrant community. American
Journal of Public Health, 92,1227-1237.
Hirsch, J.S. (2003). A courtship after
marriage: Sexuality and love in Mexican
transnational families. Berkeley, CA:
University of California Press
Hirsch, J.S. (2003). Anthropologists,
migrants, and health research: Confronting
cultural appropriateness in anthropology and
contemporary immigration. In N. Foner (Ed.),
American arrivals: Anthropology engages the new
immigration (pp. 229-257). Sante Fe: School of
American Research Press.
Santelli, J., Rochat, R., Hatfield-Timajchy,
K., Colley Gilbert, B., Curtis, K., Cabral, R.,
Hirsch, J.S., Schieve, L., & Other Members of
the Unintended Pregnancy Working Group (2003).
The measurement and meaning of unintended
pregnancy: A review and critique. Perspectives
on Sexual and Reproductive Health, 35, 94-101.
Hirsch, J.S. ( 2004). ‘Un Noviazgo Despues
de Ser Casados': Companionate marriage, sexual
intimacy and fertility regulation in modern
Mexico. In S. Szreter, A. Dharmalingam, & H.
Sholkamy (Eds.), Qualitative demography:
Categories and contexts in population studies
(pp. 249-275). Oxford, UK: Oxford University
Press.
Hirsch, J.S., & Wardlow, H. (Eds.), (in
press). Modern loves: The new anthropology of
romantic love and companionate marriage. Ann
Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press.
Hirsch, J.S., Meneses, S., Thompson, B.,
Negroni, M., Pelcastre, B., & del Rio, C. (in
press). The inevitability of infidelity: Sexual
reputation, social geographies, and marital HIV
risk in rural Mexico. American Journal of
Public Health. |
