Claudia Santelices
Assistant Teaching Professor
Dr. Claudia Santelices is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Department of Health Sciences and the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Northeastern University. She is presently affiliated to the Northeastern University’s Institute for Health Equity and Social Justice Research.
Dr. Santelices is a medical anthropologist whose research focuses on understanding the interconnectedness of substance use disorders, social and behavioral risk factors, and HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases among high-risk underserved populations.
Dr. Santelices has been a leading ethnographer, co-investigator and program evaluator in several federally funded multidisciplinary studies, and she has also served as research consultant on international studies assessing health risk behaviors among rural and urban hidden populations.
Dr. Santelices earned her doctoral degree in Anthropology and master’s degree in philosophy at the University of Connecticut. Prior to joining Northeastern University, she was leading ethnographer and project coordinator at the Hispanic Health Council in Hartford Connecticut, and the Center for Health Intervention and Prevention at the University of Connecticut.
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Education
PhD, Anthropology
University of Connecticut, 2006 -
Contact
617-373-5566 c.santelices@northeastern.edu -
Address
INV 333
Peoples and Cultures
ANTH 1101
Surveys basic concepts in cultural anthropology by looking at a range of societies and the issues they face in a globalizing world. Examines the manner in which cultures adapt to, reject, or modify all of the changes they face. These changes impact everything from traditional family structure, to religion, gender, all the way to patterns of joking and concepts of beauty the world over.
