The subject of an expository writing course I took the Fall of my freshman year was “Writing 5: Inclusion and Diversity in Higher Education”. As an African-American male, I decided to focus on my own race as my primary subject-matter. The work surrounding African-American males in higher education is linked below.

African American Males in Higher Education

In the Winter of my sophomore year I took the course “Anthropology 17: The Anthropology of Disease and Illness”. In this course, I learned about healthcare systems from a cross-cultural perspective. I also learned about how certain health conditions and phenomenon are interpreted and manifest themselves differently amongst various cultures. For my final paper, I investigated how poverty affects mental health treatment. That research paper is linked below.

How does poverty impact mental health treatment?

My first exposure to person-centered interviewing, a tactic essential to ethnographic research, occurred in the first Anthropology course I took at Dartmouth “Anthropology 60: Psychological Anthropology”. In this course I was given the opportunity to employ the methods we used surrounding person-centered interviewing first hand. The paper that resulted from the project is listed below. This paper is password protected in consideration of my subject.

Person Centered Interview: Childhood Relationships