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Anahi Viladrich
Degrees/Diplomas: PhD, Sociomedical Sciences (Medical Anthropology), Columbia University (with Distinction and Dissertation Award), 2003
Campus Affiliation: Queens College
Research Interests: Immigration and health, transnationalism, gender and health, qualitative/ethnographic research methods.
Phone: 347-523-1534
Email: anahi.viladrich@qc.cuny.edu

Primary Teaching Areas
Sociology of medicine, immigration and health, global health, qualitative research methods and ethnography.

Selected Publications

  • Viladrich, A. Beyond Welfare Reform: Reframing Undocumented Immigrants’ Entitlement to Health Care in the United States. A Critical Review, Social Science & Medicine, Fall 2011, Printed version to be appeared on February 2012, Online version available at: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277953611003510
  • Viladrich, A. Deconstructing the Immigrant Self: The Day I Discovered I am a Latina. In AL. Keating & G. González-López, eds. Bridging: How Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa’s Life and Work Transformed Our Own. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2011, 33-38.
  • Viladrich, A. El Estado de Bienestar en Jaque: Políticas Públicas, Inmigración y el Derecho a la Salud en los EE.UU (The Welfare State in Checkmate: Public Policy, Immigration and the Right to Health Care in the US). C. A. Pizarro, ed. Migraciones Internacionales Contemporáneas: Estudios Para el Debate. Buenos Aires, Ciccus Publishing Company, 2011, 21-38.
  • Viladrich, A. Practical Magic in the Urban Milieu: Latino Practitioners and the Informal Economy of Healing. In Patsy Sutherland, ed. Caribbean Healing Traditions: Implications for Health and Mental Health. New York: Routledge, in press.
  • Viladrich, Anahí (Core Editor and Member of the Editorial Board). Encyclopedia of Immigrant Health, Springer publishers, in press.
  • Viladrich, Anahí. "From Shrinks to Urban Shamans: Argentine Immigrants' Therapeutic Eclecticism in New York City." Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, 2007; 31:307-328.
  • Viladrich, Anahí. "Botánicas in America's Backyard: Uncovering the World of Latino Immigrants' Herb-healing Practices." Human Organization. 2006;65(4):407-19.
  • Viladrich, Anahí. "Tango Immigrants in New York City: The Value of Social Reciprocities." Journal of Contemporary Ethnography. 2005;34(5):533-559.


Education

  • BA/MA, Sociology, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina (1989)
  • MA, Sociology (with Honors) New School University
  • MPH, Sociomedical Sciences, Columbia University, 2000
  • PhD, Sociomedical Sciences (Medical Anthropology), Columbia University (with Distinction and Dissertation Award), 2003