Mara Helene Buchbinder
UCLA, PhD Candidate, 2008
Case Western Reserve University, MA, 2005
Dartmouth College, AB, 2002
Fax: 310-206-7833
E-mail:
mbuch@ucla.edu
Subfield
Psychocultural/Medical and Linguistic Anthropology
Research Interests
Psychological and medical anthropology, linguistic anthropology; family health and wellbeing; children, families, and medical institutions; doctor-patient interaction; pain and communication; newborn genetic screening and genetic subjectivity; illness narratives, language and emotion, and language socialization.
Publications
Buchbinder, M. (2009). The Management of Autonomy in Adolescent Diabetes: A Case Study of Triadic Medical Interaction. Health 13(2):175-196.
Buchbinder, M. (2008). “You’re Still Sick!” Framing, Footing, and Participation in Children’s Medical Play. Discourse Studies, 10(2):139-59.
Buchbinder, M., Longhofer, J., Barrett, T., Lawson, P., and Floersch, J. (2006). Ethnographic Approaches to Child Care Research: A Review of the Literature. Journal of Early Childhood Research, 4(1): 45-63.
Mosavel, M., Simon, C., van Stade, D., and Buchbinder, M. (2005). Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR) in South Africa: Engaging Multiple Constituents to Shape the Research Question. Social Science & Medicine, 61(12): 2577-87.
Buchbinder, M.H., Detzer, M.J., Welsch, R.L., Christiano, A.S., Patashnick, J.L., and Rich, M. (2005). Assessing Adolescents with Insulin-Dependent Diabetes Mellitus: A Multiple Perspective Pilot Study Using Visual Illness Narratives and Interviews. Journal of Adolescent Health 36(1): e9-e13.
Grants and Awards
UCLA Center for Society and Genetics Pre-doctoral Fellowship, 2009-2010.
UCLA Affiliates Scholarship, 2009-2010.
Ursula Mandel Scholarship, 2008-2009.
Wenner-Gren Foundation Dissertation Fieldwork Grant, 2008.
NSF Dissertation Improvement Grant, 2008.
Society for Humanistic Anthropology, Graduate Student Essay Contest, 2007
NSF Interdisciplinary Relationship Science Program Predoctoral Fellowship, 2006-08
NSF Summer Institute for Research Design in Cultural Anthropology, 2006
UCLA Graduate Student Summer Research Mentorship Grant, 2006
UCLA Department of Anthropology Graduate Fellowship, 2005-06
Advisors
Elinor Ochs (Co-Chair)
Linda Garro (Co-Chair)
Jason Throop
John Heritage
Conference Presentations
“Thousands of Reasons it Could Be”: The Attribution of Developmental Problems in Parent-Geneticist Interactions. (2009.) Paper presented at the joint meeting of the American Ethnological Association and the Canadian Anthropological Society-Société Canadienne d’Anthropologie. Vancouver, B.C. (First author with S. Timmermans.)
“It’s That Our Whole Lifestyle is in the Way”: The Limits of Priority and Choice in Family Health and Wellbeing. (2009). Paper presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Psychological Anthropology. Asilomar, CA. (First author with L. Garro.)
Children in Trouble: Framing Problem Behaviors in Everyday Life. (2009). Paper presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Psychological Anthropology. Asilomar, CA. (Second author with V. Villapando.)
Discourses of Mind and Body in Anti-Depressant Prescription for Chronic Pain. (2007). Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association. Washington, DC.
Winner of the Society for Humanistic Anthropology Graduate Student Paper Prize: “It’s Either One Pain or Another Pain”: Social Distress and Somatic Disruption in Family Chronic Pain Narratives. (2007). Paper presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Psychological Anthropology. Manhattan Beach, CA.
Health Ideologies in Practice: Socializing Physical Fitness in the Everyday Lives of Families. (2006). Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Anthropology Association. San Jose, CA.
Stories, Suffering, and Standpoint in Adolescent Diabetes: The Case of the Visual Illness Narrative. (2006). Presentation at the Narrative Matters Conference. Wolfville, Nova Scotia.
Performing Play, Constructing Cancer: Children’s Knowledge as Embodied Experience. (2006). Paper presented at the Meeting of the Society for Medical Anthropology. Vancouver, BC. (First author with J. Longhofer.)
Role Rehearsal and Role Reversal: Children’s Play as Anti-Structural Drama. (2005). Annual Meeting of the American Anthropology Association. Washington, DC. (First author with J. Longhofer.)
Seeing to Know: Visual Research of Youth with Diabetes. (2005). Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research on Child Development. Atlanta, GA.
“I’d Have ‘Em In Therapy”: Perspectives on the Emotional Worlds of Kids Coping With Cancer. (2005). Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology. Santa Fe, NM. (Second author with P. Lawson and K. McCue.)
Anthropological Perspectives on the Therapeutic Potential of Play. (2005). Annual Meeting of the Association for the Study of Play. Santa Fe, NM. (First author with J. Longhofer.)
“Talking Social Structure,” Unlocking Status: Hierarchical Power Distributions in the Medical Encounter. (2004). Annual Meeting of the Central States Anthropology Society. Milwaukee, WI.
“Be a Scream and Not a Sigh”: Construction of Self Among Youth With Disabilities. (2004). Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology. Dallas, TX.
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