Dr. Fletcher Linder

Associate Professor of Anthropology

Phone: (540) 568-5270
Fax: (540) 568-6112
E-mail: lindergf (at) jmu (dot) edu
Website: IDLS Homepage

Education:

Ph.D., M.A. University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

Teaching:

Cultural Anthropology, Cultural Studies, Modern American Culture, Anthropology of Education, IDLS capstone, History of Theory in Anthropology, Ethnographic Genres and Methods

Research:

Applying anthropological theory in cultural studies and public health; subjectivity in late capitalist social formations; critical medical anthropology.

Recent Publications:

Pumping Iron Post-Foucault: Discerning Discipline in the Society of the Spectacle.  Book manuscript under review by University of Minnesota Press, 225pp.

"Slave Ethics and Anthropological Memory in Public Health Research."  Medical Anthropology (forthcoming).

"Assessing the Long-term Effects of Safe Dates and a Booster in Preventing and Reducing Dating Violence Victimization and Perpetration." w. Vangie Foshee, Karl Bauman, Susan Ennett, T. Benefield, and C. Suchindran. American Journal of Public Health 94(4), 2004 (In press).

"Review of "Rethinking Science: Knowledge and the Public in an Age of Uncertainty," by Nowotny, Scott and Gibbons, Contemporary Sociology. (w. Joe Spear) 32 (2):255-257, 2003

"Marginal People". In Encyclopedia of Public Health. Lester Breslow, L. W. Green, W. Keck, J. Last, L. Lave, and M.     McGinnis (eds). Macmillan Reference USA, New York. pp. 712-714, 2002 w. Mark Daniel

"Indigenous Populations". In Encyclopedia of Public Health. Lester Breslow, L. W. Green, W. Keck, J. Last, L. Lave, and M. McGinnis (eds). Macmillan Reference USA, New York. pp 610-611, 2002.