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JACOB R. HICKMAN |
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Education ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Currently a third year PhD student in Comparative Human Development at the University of Chicago 2007 M.A., Comparative Human Development, University of Chicago; Thesis: The Moral Dimension of the Hmong Refugee Experience in America: A Three Ethics Approach 2005 B.S./B.A., Psychology, Sociocultural Anthropology (additional major), Brigham Young University Research Interests ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Psychological anthropology and Cultural psychology; Hmong diaspora; Folk health beliefs; Moral beliefs and reasoning; Cultural-psychological adaptations in refugee and immigrant communities; Ethnic identity; Guatemala Publications and Manuscripts ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ 2007 “Is it the Spirit or the Body?”: Syncretism of Health Beliefs among Hmong Immigrants to Alaska. National Association for the Practice of Anthropology Bulletin, 27:176-195. 2006 Forced Migration and Health Syncretism: The Changing Nature of Health Beliefs among Hmong Immigrants to Alaska. Inquiry: The Journal of Student Cross-Cultural Field Research 1,1:35-49. 2003 Inverse Typology and Ethnic Identity: An Analysis of Inverse Image Theory in Two Guatemalan Communities. The Journal of the Utah Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters 80:153-172. (In preparation) Epilepsy from a Hmong Spiritual Perspective. The Chicago Companion to the Child. Richard Shweder, ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (In preparation) Psychology and Anthropology. 21st Century Anthropology: A Reference Handbook. H. James Birx, ed. Sage Publications. Selected Honors, Awards, and Fellowships ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ 2007 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship 2006 Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Summer fellowship to study Hmong at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Southeast Asian Studies Summer Institute (SEASSI) 2005 First Place, NAPA Student Achievement Award, National Association for the Practice of Anthropology (American Anthropological Association) 2004 Shallit Memorial Research Grant Recipient, Anthropology Department, Brigham Young University Fieldwork Experience ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Thailand: 1 month pre-dissertation research (2007); planned site for dissertation fieldwork on Hmong cultural-psychological adaptations Alaska: 2 months of fieldwork (2004); I researched the integration of biomedical concepts and reasoning into the folk heath system in the Hmong community in Anchorage Guatemala: 6 months of fieldwork (summers of 2002 and 2003); I investigated interethnic relations in two Western highland communities (one Ladino town and one Indigenous town), including the socioeconomic shifts that are leading to changing ethnic identities |
