Contact:

Parker Hall Room 209
(718) 420-4373
alexa.dietrich@wagner.edu

Office Hours:

Mondays:  12:00 – 2:30 p.m.
Thursdays: 10:00 – 11:30 a.m.
& By Appt.

Degrees:

A.B., Barnard College; MPH, PhD., Emory University

Research Interests:

Corporations and communities; community environmental health; political ecology of Puerto Rico; the global pharmaceutical industry; social responsibility in business.

Teaching Interests:

Medical Anthropology; Culture, Community, and Environment; Gender and Sexuality; Cultural Anthropology: Theory and Methods; Political Anthropology; Anthropology and Public Health; Cultures of the Caribbean and Latin America; Applying Anthropology in Everyday Life.

Representative Publications:

Dietrich, Alexa S.
In press, The Drug Company Next Door: Pollution, Jobs, and Community Health in Puerto Rico.New York: New York University Press. (Spring 2013)

Dietrich, Alexa S.
2011   “Coercive Harmony, Deep Capture, and Environmental Justice in Puerto Rico.”  Development & Change. 42 (6): 1441-1463.

Dietrich, Alexa S.
2008    “Corrosion in the System: The Community Health By-Products of Pharmaceutical Production in Northern Puerto  Rico.” In Killer Commodities: Public Health and the Corporate Production of Harm, M. Singer and H. Baer, eds.  New York: AltaMira Press.

Spring 2013 Class Schedule:

AN101-Introduction to Anthropology
11:20 – 12:50, W – F, CAMH 232

AN201 Comparative Cultures (I)
4:20-5:50, M – W, CAMH 232

AN325 Culture, Power, and Place (I)
2:40-4:10, M-W, MH 22

AN491 Anthropological Theory
1:00-4:00, T, MH 41