PDF of Dr. Smith-Oka’s CV<\/a><\/p>\nAcademic Positions<\/h3>\n
Faculty Fellow, Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies, University of Notre Dame<\/p>\n
Faculty Fellow, Eck Institute for Global Health, University of Notre Dame<\/p>\n
Higher Education<\/h3>\n
2006 Ph. D. Anthropology. Joint program of University of Illinois at Chicago and Field Museum of Natural History.<\/p>\n
2001 M.A. Anthropology (with emphasis on Ecology). University of Florida.<\/p>\n
1998. B.A. (cum laude). Biology, Anthropology, and Environmental Studies. Lawrence University, Appleton, Wisconsin.<\/p>\n
1994-1995 Biology. Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico.<\/p>\n
Previous Positions<\/h3>\n
2006-2014 Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Notre Dame<\/p>\n
2008-2011 Nancy O’Neill Assitant Professor of Anthropology, University of Notre Dame<\/p>\n
Publications<\/h3>\n
(* Indicates graduate student co-author)<\/p>\n
(** Indicates undergraduate student co-author)<\/p>\n
Books and Monographs<\/h4>\n
2013 Shaping the Motherhood of Indigenous Mexico.<\/em> Nashville: Vanderbilt Press.<\/p>\nUnder review Becoming Gods: Transformation of Doctors in Mexican Obstetrics Wards.\u00a0<\/em>Under Contract at Rutgers University Press.<\/p>\nPeer-Reviewed Articles<\/h4>\n
In<\/em> prep<\/em> V. Smith-Oka. Cutting Women: Exploring the Iatrogenic Effect of Obstetric Incisions in Mexico. Part of special issue, Medicine’s Shadowside: Revisiting Clinical Iatrogenesis<\/em>, Emma Varley & Saiba Varma, issue editors.<\/p>\nUnder review\u00a0<\/em>V. Smith-Oka, S.E. Rubin, and L.Z. Dixon. Obstetric Violence in Their Own Words: Comparative Ethnographic Examinations of Gender Violence in Health Care Settings in Mexico and South Africa. Submitted to Violence against Women<\/em> October 23, 2019.<\/p>\n2019 A. Kristensen-Cabrera (**), E. Perez-Then, M.Miric, and V. Smith-Oka. Factors Associated with the Practice of Breastfeeding for Mothers in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Public Health Review<\/em> 2(2):1-10.<\/p>\n2019 V. Smith-Oka and M. Marshalla (**). Crossing Bodily, Social, and Intimate Boundaries: How Class, Ethnic, and Gender Differences in Mexico are Perpetuated in Medical Training. American Anthropologist<\/em>. DOI: 10.2222\/aman 13174<\/p>\n2018 J. Oluoch-Aridi, V. Smith-Oka, E. Milan (*), and R. Dowd. Exploring Mistreatment of Women during Childbirth in Dandora, Kenya: Experiences and Perceptions of Women and Healthcare Providers. Reproductive Health<\/em> 15:209 (14 pages), https:\/\/doi.org\/ 10.1186\/s12978-018-0643-z.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n2015 V. Smith-Oka. Microaggressions and the Reproduction of Social Inequalities in Medical Encounters in Mexico. Social Science & Medicine<\/em> 143: 9-16. (Impact Factor: 2.814).<\/p>\n2014 V. Smith-Oka. Fallen Uterus: Social Suffering, Bodily Vigor and Social Support Among Women in Rural Mexico. Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 28(1):105-121<\/em>. (Impact Factor 1.298).<\/p>\n2013 V. Smith-Oka. Managing Labor and Delivery among Impoverished Populations in Mexico: Cervical Exams as Bureaucratic Practice. American Anthropologist<\/em> 115 (4): 595-607. (Impact Factor: 1.539).<\/p>\n2012 Bodies of Risk: Constructing Motherhood in a Mexican Public Hospital. Social Science and Medicine 75(12):2275-2282<\/em>. (Impact Factor 2.699).<\/p>\n2012 An Analysis of Two Indigenous Reproductive Health Illnesses In a Nahua Community in Veracruz, Mexico. Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 8:33<\/em>. DOI: 10.1186\/1746-4269-8-33. (Impact Factor: 2.39).<\/p>\n2009 V. Smith-Oka. Unintended Consequences: Exploring the Tensions between Development Programs and Indigenous Women in Mexico in the Contextor Reproductive Health. Social Science and Medicine 68:2069-2077.<\/em> (Impact Factor: 2.604).<\/p>\n2008 V. Smith-Oka. Plants used for Reproductive Health by Nahua Women in Northern Veracruz, Mexico. Journal of Economic Botany<\/em> 62(4): 604-614. (Impact Factor 1.018).<\/p>\nBook Chapters<\/h4>\n
In prep<\/em> J. Oluoch-Aridi, V. Smith-Oka, & J. Dailey (*). Making Dignified Care the Norm: Examining Obstetric Violence and Reproductive Justice in Kenya. In<\/em> The Routledge Handbook of Anthropology and Reproduction, Sallie Han & Cecilia Tomori, eds. Routledge. Due March 2020.<\/p>\nUnder review<\/em> V. Smith-Oka & Kayla Hurd (*). \u201cWe Work with What We Have, Not with What We Would Like <\/em>to Have<\/em>\u201d: A Hospital Ethnography of Structure and Care in Mexico. In<\/em> The Work of Medicine: Anthropology in Hospitals, William Olsen and Carolyn Sargent, eds. Rutgers University Press. Submitted October 4, 2018.<\/p>\n2020 V. Smith-Oka, N. Nissen (**), R. Wornhoff (**), & S.G. Sheridan. \u201cI Thought I was Going to <\/em>Die<\/em>\u201d: Examining Experiences of Childbirth Pain in Latin America<\/em>. In<\/em> Purposeful Pain: The Embodiment of Intentional Suffering, Susan G. Sheridan and Lesley Gregoricka, eds. Springer Press.<\/p>\n2019 L.Z. Dixon, V. Smith-Oka, & M. El Kotni. Teaching about Birth in Mexico: Working Across Birth <\/em>Models.<\/em> In<\/em> Birth in Eight Cultures (Pp. 17-47). Edited by R. Davis-Floyd & M. Cheney. Long Grove, IL: Waveland Press.<\/p>\n2018 V. Smith-Oka and M. Rokhideh (*). Social Support and Social Suffering: Uterine Health among <\/em>Indigenous Women in Mexico<\/em>. In<\/em> Maternal Health, Pregnancy-Related Morbidity and Death Among Indigenous Women of Mexico & Central America: An Anthropological, Epidemiological and Biomedical Approach (Pp. 225-247). Edited by David Schwartz. Springer Press.<\/p>\n2015 Being a Doula when Birth Choice Is Limited: Supporting Birthing Mothers in a Mexican Hospital<\/em>. In <\/em>Intimate Care: Doulas and the Birthing Body. Edited by Angela Casta\u00f1eda and Julie Searcy. Toronto: Demeter Press.<\/p>\n2013 \u201cEs Mejor Tener Pocos\u201d: Las Decisiones de las Mujeres Nahua Respecto a la Planificaci\u00f3n Familiar <\/em>(\u201cIt is Better to Have Few:\u201d Nahua Women\u2019s Decisions Regarding Family Planning). In<\/em> La Tercera Realidad: La Huasteca Como Espejo Cultural (Pp. 67-86). Edited by J. Ruvalcaba Mercado. M\u00e9xico: Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropolog\u00eda Social.<\/p>\n2012 “They Don’t Know Anything”: How Medical Authority Constructs Perceptions of Reproductive Risk <\/em>among Low-Income Mothers in Mexico<\/em>. In<\/em> Risk, Reproduction, and Narratives of Experience (Pp. 103-121). Edited by L. Fordyce and A. Maraesa. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press.<\/p>\nInvited Lectures and Addresses<\/h3>\n
2019 Knowing When to Cut: Obstetric Violence as a Reproduction of Social Inequality in Mexico<\/em>. Invited Lecture at the Kent Family Foundation Speaker Series, University of Central Florida, Anthropology Department, October 9, 2019.<\/p>\n2018 Women Can\u2019t Be Trauma Doctors, and Other Gendered Stories of Medicine.<\/em> Invited Lecture at the Christina Research Seminar \u2013 SKY Advanced Research Seminar series, University of Finland, Helsinki, April 24, 2018.<\/p>\n2018 Authoritative Knowledge, Inequality, and Obstetric Violence in Hospital Birth in Mexico: Strange or <\/em>Comfortable Bedfellows?<\/em> Invited Keynote at the Finnish Reproductive Studies Network (FiResNet) spring seminar, University of Finland, Helsinki, April 20, 2018.<\/p>\n2015 Invited Discussant for \u201cThe Ontological Politics of Motherhood: Ordinary Exceptions\u201d at the American Anthropological Association meeting. Denver, CO, November 18-22, 2015.<\/p>\n
2015 Invited Discussant for \u201cThe International Labor Organization\u2019s Andean Indigenous Program in Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Chile, 1950-1975,\u201d presented by Dr. Mercedes Prieto, Kellogg Institute Visiting Fellow. Notre Dame, IN, November 12, 2015.<\/p>\n
2015 Invited Panelist for \u201cUnderstanding Human Dignity\u201d at the University of Notre Dame. Notre Dame, IN, January 28, 2015.<\/p>\n
2014 Invited Discussant for \u201cAnthropological Approaches to Conditional Cash Transfer Programs\u201d at the American Anthropological Association meeting. Washington, DC, December 4, 2014.<\/p>\n
2014 Invited Discussant for 5th Annual Medical Anthropology Young Scholars (MAYS) Meeting, Freie Universit\u00e4t, Berlin, July 4-5, 2014.<\/p>\n
2014 Medical Anthropology, Medicine, and Empathy<\/em>. Invited Lecture at Bharati Vidyapeeth Deemed University, Medical College, Pune, India. June 19, 2014.<\/p>\n2014 Shaping the Motherhood of Indigenous Mexico<\/em>. Invited Online Lecture at Lehman College, NY. February 26, 2014.<\/p>\n2013 Invited Discussant for \u201cChallenging Communities: Power, Boundaries, and Resistance\u201d at the University of Illinois\u2019s Second City Anthropology Graduate Conference. Chicago, IL. March 9, 2013.<\/p>\n
2011 Invited Discussant for \u201cReproductive Choice and Romantic Desire: Explorations of Intimacy, Sexuality, and Evolving Gender Norms\u201d at the Society for Psychological Anthropology meeting, Santa Monica, CA. March 31-April 3, 2011.<\/p>\n
2010 The Power of Plants: Medicinal Plants and Traditional Healing in an Indigenous Mexican Village. <\/em>Invited Lecture at North Central College, Naperville, IL. November 11, 2010.<\/p>\n2010 Invited Discussant for \u201cComparative Perspectives on Fertility Regulation\u201d at the Latin American Studies Association meeting, Toronto, Canada. Oct. 6-10, 2010.<\/p>\n
2008 Analyzing the Unforeseen Complexities of National Development Policies in Mexico.<\/em> Invited Lecture at the Kellogg Institute for International Studies, University of Notre Dame. February 5, 2008.<\/p>\n2007 Teor\u00eda de Decisi\u00f3n Aplicada a la Salud Reproductiva de la Mujer Nahua (Decision-Making Theory as <\/em>Applied to Nahua Women\u2019s Reproductive Health<\/em>). Invited Lecture at the Universidad Veracruzana Intercultural, Ixhuatl\u00e1n de Madero, Mexico. June 14, 2007.<\/p>\nProfessional Membership:<\/h3>\n
American Anthropological Association<\/p>\n
Society for Medical Anthropology<\/p>\n
Society for Applied Anthropology<\/p>\n
Society for Latin American Anthropology<\/p>\n
Society for Economic Botany<\/p>\n
Council on Anthropology and Reproduction<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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