1996-2003 Oral history of a French forced laborer at the I.G. Farben plant in Auschwitz during the Holocaust (visits). 1995-1997 A corner street gang in San Francisco’s Mission District. 1992 Street Children in Bolivia: La Paz, El Alto, Cochabamba, and Santa Cruz. (Summer/Spring). 1985-1991 Puerto Rican crack dealers, East Harlem. 1985-1986 Second generation immigrants in Paris (la Goûte d'Or). 1982-1983 United Brands banana plantation in Costa Rica and Panama (for doctorate). 1979-1986 Miskitu communities of northern Nicaragua: 1979-1980 for the Center for Investigation and Studies of the Agrarian Reform and the National Literacy Campaign of Nicaragua; summers 1983-1985 and winter 1986 for the Centro de Investigaciones y Documentación de la Costa Atlántica. 1979 Mopan and Kekchi Maya communities of southern Belize (for Masters). GRANT AWARDS CURRENT FROM NIH ($ amount = direct + indirect) 1996-2013 NIH R01-DA10164 “The Logics for HIV Risk among Street-Based Heroin Injectors.” $5,414,320. Role: PI 2009-2014 NIH R01-DA027204, (PI Draine) “Education and empowerment intervention for HIV prevention in and out of jail.” $400,000. Role: Co-I 2010-2012 Canadian Social Science Research Council, “Sponsorship of In-Residence Post-Doc, Comparative Substance Abuse Treatment, Canada/US” $100,000. Role: PI 2009-2011 CHRP ID08-SF-049 (PI Riley) “Impact of the Criminal Justice System on the HIV Risk of Urban Poor Women” $120,000. Role: Co-I 2007-2011 NIH R01 MH078743 (PI Comfort) “HIV Risk among Male Parolees and their Female Partners.” $208,275. $100,000. Role: Co-I BOOKS 2009 Righteous Dopefiend. Berkeley: University of California Press. (Series: Public Anthropology.) (First author with co-author Jeff Schonberg.) Simultaneous hardback/paperback, two printings.
2010 “Theorizing Abuse: An Ethnographic Perspective on Drugs in the U.S. Inner City”. Harvard University, Department of Anthropology. April 1. Also presented to Center for Poverty Studies, University of Manchester [England]. April 30. 2010 “Los Retos Éticas de la Etnografía: Hacia una Antropología Publica.” Bogotá, Universidad Nacional de Colombia. February 15. 2010 “El Sufrimiento Inútil de los Usuarios de Drogas en el Gueto Estadounidense.” Bogotá, Universidad de los Andes. Dept. of Medicine. February 16. Also presented to the Ministry of Social Welfare, Capacidad Repuesto Institucional Comunitaria Seminar. Bogotá, Colombia. February 16. 2010 “La Guerra Contra la Droga en Estados Unidos: Una perspectiva etnográfica de la calle.” Universidad Autónoma de México. Dept. Anthropology. January 29. Also presented to the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Dept. Anthropology. February 8, 2010. 2010 “Etnia, nacionalismo y violencia simbólica: Una perspectiva etnográfica sobre 30 años de trabajo de campo en las Américas.” Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Seminarios Multi-situados México-Francia. January 28. 2010 “Public Anthropology, Photo-Ethnography, and Homelessness in America: Confronting Urgent Social Challenges in the Penn Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.” University of Pennsylvania Museum of Anthropology and Archaeology, Annual Curator’s Lecture. January 21. Also presented at Universidad de Puerto Rico. August 29, 2012. 2009 “Just Another Night in Jail: The War on Drugs in the U.S. Inner City.” Annual AAA Meetings, Philadelphia, Dec. 3. 2009 “Anthropology and Globalization: An Urgent Challenge and Responsibility .” University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and Sciences 60 Second Lecture Series. September 30. 2009 “Reframing the Contradictions between Law Enforcement and Health: An Ethnographic Perspective on the War on Drugs in the U.S. Inner City.” University of Pennsylvania, Schools of Nursing and Medicine joint lecture series. September 16. Also presented to the Department of Social Medicine and Global Health, Harvard Medical School, April 2, 2010. 2008 “Lumpen Abuse under Neoliberalism: A Photo-Ethnographic Perspective on Homeless Heroin
Injectors.” Department of Anthropology, New York University, September 25. Also presented to Ethnographic Research Seminar, Dept Sociology, Univ. of Pennsylvania, September 26. Also presented in Spanish to Masters in Social Science Program, Univ. Rosario, Bogota. November 6. Also presented to Dept Sociology, University of Pennsylvania. December 3. Also presented to Humanities Research Seminar, Stanford University, January 20, 2009. Also presented to Dept of History of Consciousness, UC Santa Cruz, March 9, 2009 2008 “In Search of Respect: Ten Years Later.” Philomathean Society, Univ Penn. September 23. 2008 “Le mystère des évolutions des épidémies de drogues: Un défi pour la santé publique.” Santé Publique, Université de Sherbrooke, Montréal, June 6. 2008 “25 Years of Ethnography and Violence in the Americas.” Presented at the Conference, Violence and Citizenship in Post-Authoritarian Latin America, Princeton University, March 7. Also presented to University of Leiden [Holland] 80th anniversary of the Faculty/Student Dialogue Program. November 27. Also presented to the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Dept. Anthropology. February 11, 2010. Spanish versión published as “La lumpenización de la violencia política bajo el neoliberalismo: Una retrospectiva etnográfica sobre 25 años en las Américas.” FLACSO, Antigua, Guatemala, October 3, 2008. Also presented to the Society for Applied Anthropology, Tampa FL, March 29, 2007. 2006 “How to Think about Non-Adherence and Self-Destructive Behaviors: Medical Services for Homeless Heroin Injectors.” AIDS Research Institute, University of California, San Francisco. April 28. Also Presented at the Jefferson Medical School School of Nursing. May 16, 2008. 2006 “Gendered Violence and Hepatitis C Infection among Youth Injectors in the Haight: An Anthropological Perspective.” Grand Rounds, Pediatrics, San Francisco General Hospital. April 18. 2006 “Intimate Apartheid among African American and White Homeless Heroin and Crack Users in San
Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research Grant for “Ethnicity, Income Generating Strategies and the Inner City.” $13,000. 1985-1986 Bourse Chateaubriand (French Ministry of Foreign Affairs) for “Ethnographic Research Among Second-Generation North African Immigrants.” $12,000. 1982-1984 Inter-American Foundation Dissertation Research Fellowship for “Ethnic Relations on Costa Rica's Atlantic Coast.” $18,000. 1978-1982 Stanford Graduate Fellowship. 1975-1978 Harvard Scholarship. COMPLETED GRANTS (As Co-Investigator Only) 2006-2010 “Qualitative Exploration of Low-Frequency Heroin Injectors not in Drug Treatment.” Funded by NIH/NIDA # R01 DA021627, $100,000. PI Alex Kral 2008-2009 "HIV, Environment and Risk Among Unstably Housed Women Study (HERS)” funded by California HIV/AIDS Research Program # ID06-SF194, $120,000. PI Elise Riley 2007-2009 “Study of Substance Using Youth Populations in Northern CA.” Funded by California Department of Health Services # 06-55787, $12,000. PI Jim Quesada 2000-2003 “Community-Based HIV Prevention in Five Counties” funded by NIH/NIMH # U-10 MH61536, $1,000,000. PI Tom Coates and Carlos Caceres. 2003-2007 “A Randomized Controlled Trial of HIV Adherence Case Management and Modified Direct Observation Therapy” funded by NIH/NIMH # R01-64388, $2,347,926. PI David Bangsberg 2002-2007 “HIV Risk Reduction for Women & Incarcerated Partners” funded by NIH/NINR # R01-08324, $1,500,000. PI Olga Grinstead. 2000-2004 Training Grant for Center for AIDS Prevention, UCSF. Funded by NIH/NIMH $400,000/Yr. PI Tom Coates.