G. Derrick Hodge Visiting Assistant Professor Manheim 106D 816.235.6164 (fax) 816.235.1117 e-mail

 

Education:
Ph.D., Anthropology, City University of New York
M.Phil., Anthropology, City University of New York

M.Div., Theology and World Religions, Union Theological Seminary, New York

B.A., History, Suffolk University, Boston

 

Research Interests:

Political-Economy

Capitalism, socialism, and post-socialism

Nationalism and Masculinity

Police and crime

Youth and consumer culture

Medical Anthropology and Public Health

 

Research Areas:

Cuba

Latin America

Caribbean

Urban United States

 

 

Dr. Hodge has worked since 1999 with street youth in Havana, studying the underground economy and nationalism. As a political-economist of post-socialism and capitalism, he has been most interested in the ways in which the logic of capitalism works to erode the moral economy of the Cuban Revolution through market mechanisms.

 

He has also worked as a research scientist on two studies funded by the National Institutes of Health, one at Harvard Medical School and another at the Hispanic Health Council. He is also the course director of Medical Anthropology at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, and is currently co-editing, with the eminent medical anthropologist Merrill Singer, a book on the health effects of the global war machine.

 

Teaching Interests:

Gender and Globalization

Post-Socialism and Youth

Global Health