Jo Scheder

Senior Lecturer

PhD.,  Biocultural Anthropology, UW-Madison

Research, Teaching and Applied Interests

• Social Inequality, Stress, and Health Disparities
• Pacific Islander, Asian American, and Latino Studies
• Medical Anthropology
• Complementary and Alternative Medicine
• Ethnography and Documentary Film

• Race/Ethnicity, Colonialism and Health, and Native Hawaiians
• HIV/AIDS and Injection Drug Use (NIDA)
• Vietnamese and Laotian Refugees in Hawai'i
• "Westernization" and Health, Ta'u Island, American Samoa (NIMH)
• Latino Migrant Farm Workers, South Texas and Wisconsin (NIOSH)

Courses Taught

• HDFS 474: Racial/Ethnic Families in the U.S.
• HDFS 516: Family Stress and Coping
• HDFS 766: Special Topics: International Issues in Human Development
• MHB (Medical History & Bioethics) 530: Cultural Perspectives on Aging, Grief, Death & Dying
• CHICLA 201: Introduction to Chican@ and Latin@ Studies
• CHICLA 210: Introduction to Chican@ and Latin@ Cultural Studies

Selected Publications

Jo Scheder (2006) Emotion, Grief, and Power: Reconsideration of Hawaiian Health.  In Indigenous    Peoples and Diabetes: Community Empowerment and Wellness.  Mariana Leal Ferreira and Gretchen Chesley Lang (Eds).   Durham: Carolina Academic Press.  Pp.  33-51.

Jo Scheder (2006) Sickly-Sweet Harvest: Farmworker Diabetes and Social (In)Equality.  Reprinted and Annotated in Indigenous Peoples and Diabetes: Community Empowerment and Wellness.  Mariana Leal Ferreira and Gretchen Chesley Lang (Eds).  Durham: Carolina Academic Press.  Pp.  279-312.

Jo Scheder (2006)  The Spirit's Cell: Reflections on Diabetes and Political Meaning.  In Indigenous Peoples and Diabetes: Community Empowerment and Wellness.  Mariana Leal Ferreira and Gretchen Chesley Lang (Eds).  Durham: Carolina Academic Press.  Pp.  335-355.

Barrett, B., L. Marchand, J. Scheder, et al. (2004)  What Complementary and Alternative Medicine Practitioners Say About Health and Health Care.  Annals of Family Medicine  (2): 253-259.