Barbara Rylko-Bauer

Barbara Rylko-Bauer is an anthropologist and a professor at Michigan State University's Department of Anthropology. She was born in 1950 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, and emigrated with her parents to the United States that same year.

Career

In 1985, she received an undergraduate degree in microbiology from the University of Michigan, she later received a PhD from the University of Kentucky. Her interests include medical anthropology, applied anthropology, social suffering, health care inequities in the US,[1] health and human rights, narrative analysis and the Holocaust. She has published various articles, chapters, and books on these topics.[2][3][4][5][6][7] She has also served as a contributing editor for the Society for Medical Anthropology (1991–1994), a book review editor for Medical Anthropology Quarterly (1994–2000), and on several committees for the Society for Applied Anthropology.

Her most recent work focuses on the intersection of health and violence and includes a volume edited in collaboration with Linda Whiteford and Paul Farmer[8]

Awards

In 2003, Barbara Rylko-Bauer won the Rudolph Virchow Award for her work with Paul Farmer.[9]

References

  1. ^ United States: Sentenced to Sickness. August 2003. Le Monde diplomatique [1]
  2. ^ Miria Kano, Cathleen Willging, and Barbara Rylko-Bauer. 2009. Community Participation in New Mexico’s Behavioral Health Care Reform. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 23(3):277-297.
  3. ^ Alisse Waterston and Barbara Rylko-Bauer. 2006. Out of the Shadows of History and Memory: Personal Family Narratives in Ethnographies of Rediscovery. American Ethnologist 33(3):397-412.
  4. ^ Barbara Rylko-Bauer. 2005. Lessons About Humanity and Survival from My Mother and from the Holocaust. Anthropological Quarterly 78(1):11-41.
  5. ^ Barbara Rylko-Bauer, Merrill Singer, and John van Willigen. 2006. Reclaiming Applied Anthropology: Its Past, Present, and Future. American Anthropologist 108(1):178-190.
  6. ^ Barbara Rylko-Bauer and John van Willigen. 1993. A Framework for Developing Utilization-Focused Policy Research in Anthropology. In Speaking the Language of Power, D. M. Fetterman, ed. Falmer.
  7. ^ John van Willigen, Barbara Rylko-Bauer, and Ann McElroy, eds. Making Our Research Useful. Case Studies in the Utilization of Anthropological Knowledge. Westview Press, 1989.
  8. ^ Barbara Rylko-Bauer, Linda Whiteford, and Paul Farmer, eds. 2009. Global Health in Times of Violence. Santa Fe, NM: School of Advanced Research Press. ISBN 978-1-934691-14-4
  9. ^ Barbara Rylko-Bauer and Paul Farmer. 2002. Managed Care or Managed Inequality? A Call for Critiques of Market-Based Medicine. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 16(4):476-502.