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Department of Anthropology
Brandeis University
P.O. Box 549110, MS 006
Waltham, MA 02454-9110

(781) 736-2210
(781) 736-2232 (FAX)

Office location: Brown 228
lcarpent@brandeis.edu

Justeen Hyde

Institute for Community Health & Harvard Medical School
163 Gore Street
Cambridge, MA 02141
(617) 499-6684
JHyde@challiance.org

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION

Cultural constructions of risk, medicalization of social problems, adolescence, child welfare institutions, community-based participatory research and evaluation, politics of public health.

Background and Description

Justeen Hyde is a cultural and medical anthropologist with a broad range of interests in research and evaluation topics and methodologies.  Most of her anthropological work has focused on youth populations in the United States and the cultural politics of risk that shape their pathways into and out of social institutions; including research with homeless young people in Los Angeles, work in substance use and abuse, HIV/AIDS, hepatitis, and the legal and social service interventions developed to curb these social issues.  With support from NICHD, she is currently the PI on a formative qualitative study with adolescents and child welfare professionals involved with the Massachusetts Department of Social Services.  In addition to these qualitative research projects, Dr. Hyde is also involved in a number of community-based research and evaluation studies.  Dr. Hyde received her doctoral degree in Anthropology from the University of California at Irvine.  She is a Senior Scientist at the Institute for Community Health in Cambridge, MA and a lecturer at the Harvard Medical School.