About Me:
I teach in the Department of Anthropology and the Center for Public Policy and Administration at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. My current research on environment and health issues employs participatory action research methods, including PhotoVoice, in collaboration with members of a grassroots Roma (Gypsy) community organization in northeastern Hungary. In my previous research, I studied the cultural politics of environmental activism in Hungary.
Area(s) of Training
cultural anthropology, ethnography, public health
Area(s) of Expertise
environment, health, political ecology, social movements, Central and Eastern Europe, Hungary, Roma ethnic minority
Current Area of Employment
University teaching and research
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If you are around on Wednesday of the 2008 SfAA meetings, please consider coming to this session, an open forum organized on behalf of the Public Policy committee, to participate and help support the cause of education in public policy engagement.
(W-41) WEDNESDAY 12:00-1:30
Heritage II
Open Forum on Uses of Language in Public Policy
CHAIR: HEYMAN, Josiah (U Texas-El Paso)
The focus will be the ways that formal, policy oriented language articulates with communities, scholars, and other language communities in the policy process (that is, it is not a forum on the policy of language, but the language of policy).
See you in Memphis,
Joe Heyman