CV – Meredith G. Marten, PhD, MPH

Meredith Gretz Marten, MPH, PhD

Curriculum Vitae

Full CV: June 2023

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

University of West Florida, Pensacola, Florida

Associate Professor, 2022 – present.

Adjunct Faculty, UWF Department of Public Health, 2020 – present.

Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, 2015 – 2022.

Miami University, Oxford, Ohio

Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, 2014 – 2015.

EDUCATION

University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida

PhD, Anthropology (Medical Anthropology), August 2014.

Aid Withdrawal & Health Care Sustainability: Shifting Mandates in Health Institutions and HIV/AIDS Programs in Rural Tanzania. Alyson G. Young, Adviser.

Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana

MPH, International Health and Development, August 2008.

The Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida

MA, Anthropology (Maritime Archaeology), December 2005.

Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan

BA, Anthropology, Honors College, August 2002.

BA, Communication, Honors College, August 2002.

PUBLICATIONS

2023

Marten, Meredith G., Allysha P. Winburn, Benjamin R. Burgen, Spencer K. Seymour, Taylor Walkup. What Makes a ‘Good’ Anthropologist? American Anthropologist 125 (3): 582-96.

2022

Winburn, Allysha P., Katherine Miller Wolf, Meredith G. Marten. Operationalizing a Structural Vulnerability Profile for Forensic Anthropology: Skeletal and Dental Biomarkers of Embodied Inequity. Forensic Sciences International: Synergy 5: 100289.

Winburn, Allysha P., Meredith G. Marten, Taylor Walkup, Enrique Plasencia, Allison Hutson. Theorizing Social Marginalization for Forensic Anthropology: Insights from Medical Anthropology and Social Epidemiology. In The Marginalized in Death: A Forensic Anthropology of Intersectional Identity in the Modern Era, Jennifer Byrnes and Iván Sandoval-Cervantes, editors. Lexington Books.

Marten, Meredith G. The ‘Sustainability Doctrine’ in Donor-Driven Maternal Health Programs in Tanzania. In Anthropologies of Global Maternal and Reproductive Health: From Policy Spaces to Sites of Practice, Lauren Wallace, Katerini Storeng, Margaret MacDonald, eds. Springer Press, New York.

Marten, Meredith G. The Countersyndemic Potential of Medical Pluralism among People Living with HIV in Tanzania. Global Public Health 17 (6): 957-970.

2020

Marten, Meredith G. Living with HIV as Donor Aid Declines in Tanzania. Medical Anthropology 39 (3): 197-210.

Marten, Meredith G. and Noelle Sullivan. Hospital Side Hustles: Funding Conundrums and Perverse Incentives in the Publicly-Funded Tanzanian Health Sector. Social Science & Medicine 244: 112662.

2017

Marten, Meredith G. From Emergency to Sustainability: Shifting Objectives in the US Government’s HIV/AIDS Response in Tanzania. Global Public Health 12 (8): 988-1003.

Young, Alyson G., and Meredith Marten. Identifying and Using Indicators to Assess Program Effectiveness: Food Intake, Biomarkers, and Nutritional Evaluation. In Food Health: Nutrition, Technology, and Public Health, Janet Chrzan and John A. Brett, editors. Berghahn Press, New York.

2016

Collings, Peter, Meredith G. Marten, Tristan Pearce and Alyson G. Young. Country Food Sharing Networks, Household Structure, and Implications for Understanding Food Insecurity in Arctic Canada. Ecology of Food and Nutrition 55 (1): 30-49.

2015

Abramowitz, Sharon, Meredith Marten, and Catherine Panter-Brick. 2015. Anthropologists on Medical Humanitarianism: A Poll Survey on Anthropology, Health, and Humanitarian Practice. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 29 (1): 1-23.

Under Review

Marten, Meredith G. and Spencer Seymour. Medical Pluralism: Opportunities and Barriers to Good Health. In final revisions for the book Handbook of Anthropology and Global Health, Tsitsi Masvawure and Ellen Foley, editors. Routledge Books.

Burgen, Benjamin R. and Meredith G. Marten. Translocal Health Care Provisioning and the Common Good in Smalltown Senegal. For June 2023 submission to Economic Anthropology.

FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS (*External)

2022* Visualizing Social Inequity: Using CT Imagery to Investigate Skeletal Evidence of Structural Vulnerability & Embodied Marginalization (A. Winburn, PI; Co-PIs: K. Miller Wolf, M. Marten). Wenner Gren, Post-PhD Research Grant, September 2022 – May 2023.

2017 – 2018 “Stress, Coping, and Maternal Health in Pensacola, Florida. (M. Marten, PI). New Faculty Research Grant, University of West Florida, Research and Sponsored Programs, January 2017 – December 2018.

2016 “Maternal Mortality and the Expansion of Reproductive Health Care in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.” (M. Marten, PI). Faculty Small Grant, University of West Florida, Scholarly and Creative Activities Committee (SCAC), for Summer 2016.

2015 “Research Equipment Funding Proposal for Transdisciplinary Informatics Research with Faculty, Students, and Citizen Scientists. (M. Sutton, PI; Collaborators: Bennett, W., Stone, L., Okafor, A., Marten, M., Memiah, P., & Mbizo, J). University of West Florida, Center for Research and Economic Opportunity, 2015.

2013 “Aid Withdrawal and Health Care Sustainability: Shifting Mandates in Health Institutions and HIV/AIDS Programs in Tanzania” (M. Marten, PI). Elizabeth M. Eddy Dissertation Writing Fellowship, University of Florida Department of Anthropology, for Summer 2014.

2012 “Public Health Interventions and Disenrollment: Coping Strategies Among HIV+ Women in Tanzania” (M. Marten, PI). John M. Goggin Memorial Scholarship, University of Florida Department of Anthropology.

2011* “Public Health Interventions and Disenrollment: Coping Strategies Among HIV+ Women in Tanzania” (M. Marten, PI). Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Grant, February 2011 – February 2012.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Graduate Seminars

Contemporary Cultural Anthropological Theory, University of West Florida

Disease & Culture, University of West Florida

Ethnographic Research Methods, University of West Florida

Sex, Gender & Sexuality in Anthropological Perspective, University of West Florida

Race, Ethnicity & Culture, University of West Florida

Global Health, University of West Florida (Department of Public Health)

Undergraduate Courses

African Cultures, University of West Florida

Applied Anthropology, University of West Florida

Disease & Culture, University of West Florida, Miami University, University of Florida

Ethnographic Research Methods, Miami University, University of West Florida

Global Health Seminar, Miami University

History of Anthropology, University of West Florida

Human Sexuality & Culture, University of Florida

Introduction to Anthropology, University of West Florida

Introduction to Anthropology, Online course, University of West Florida

Peoples & Cultures of the World, University of West Florida, University of Florida

Peoples & Cultures of the World, Online course, University of West Florida

Sex Roles in Anthropological Perspective, University of West Florida

The African Experience, University of Florida

HIV/AIDS in Africa, University of Florida