Anthropology : Faculty - Tracy J. Andrews

Tracy J. Andrews Professor B.A. Anthropology, Portland State University, Oregon, 1972 Ph.D. Anthropology, University of Arizona, Tucson, 1985 M.P.H. Sociomedical Sciences - Public Health, Columbia University, New York City, 1988 Phone: 963-3220 Fax: 963-3215 Email: andrewst@cwu.edu

Areas of Specialization

• Sociocultural Anthropology; Native Americans; Ecological and Natural Resource Anthropology; Medical Anthropology; Political Ecology; Gender; Minority and International Health Issues; Ethnicity, Identity, and Cultural Dynamics.

Recent Courses Taught

• Anthropology: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology; Native American Cultures of North America; Native American Cultures of the Pacific Northwest; Hispanic Cultures of the Western U.S.; Medical Anthropology; Ecology and Culture; Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective; Ethnography of Material Culture. Resource Management Graduate Program: Issues and Conflicts - Resource Management.

Selected Grants and Awards

• 2005 CWU, Faculty Summer Research Appointment Award; Office of Graduate Studies and Research. "Culture, Environment and Health: Linking Traditional Healing and Biomedicine in the Treatment of Childhood Illness."
• 2005 The Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research; Funded; "Culture, Health, and Childhood Illness: Hispanic Explanatory Frameworks and Treatment Behavior."
• 2003 TIAA-CREF/SOURCE Distinguished Faculty Award; "for outstanding contributions as a mentor to Anthropology undergraduates"; Central Washington University.
• 2003 CWU Faculty Research Summer Appointment; "Potlatch and Pow Wow: Culture, Dance and Song."
• 2003 Community Service Award; "Certificate of Appreciation," Northwest Community Action Center and Yakima Valley Farm Workers Clinic.
• 2000 Central Washington University, Faculty Research Seed Grant: "Ethnography of Native American Basketry from the Pacific Northwest."

Selected Publications and Reports

• Andrews, T. J. and J. Shellenberger (accepted for publication); Potlatch and Pow Wow: Dynamics of Culture Through Lives Lived Dancing. In final editorial review: American Indian Culture and Research Journal.
• Andrews, T. J. (2006); Project Report: Culture, Environment and Health: Linking Traditional Healing and Biomedicine in Treatment of Childhood Illness, Ms. on file- Yakima Valley Farm Workers Clinic, Yakima, WA...
• Andrews, T. J. (2006); Culture, Environment and Health. Technical Report, Hispanic Childhood Health Study: Environmental Risk Factors and Health; Dept.of Health, Office of Environmental Health Assessments, (WA)..
• Andrews, T. J. and J. Shellenberger; (2004); Culture, Dance and Song: Perspectives from Nez Perce Pow Wow. Final Report to Nez Perce Tribe; Ms. on file, Cultural Resources Program, NPT, Lapwai, Idaho.
• Shellenberger, J. and T. J. Andrews (2003): Project Report: The Contemporary and Historical Role of Song and Dance in Kwakwaka'wakw Culture. Ms. on file, U'mista Cultural Centre, Alert Bay, CA.
• Andrews, T. J., Ybarra, V., and Miramontes, T., (2002), Negotiating Survival: Undocumented Mexican Immigrant Women in the Pacific Northwest. The Social Science Journal, Vol. 39(3):431-449.
• Andrews, T. J., Thomas, L. R., and Ybarra, V. (2000) Session Notes; Moving from Subjects to Partners: Options, Ethics, and Sustainable Health-related Campus-Community Research; In Proceedings, Community-Campus Partnerships for Health National Conference.
• Andrews, T. J. (1998) Crops, Cattle, and Capital: Agrarian Political Ecology in Canyons de Chelly and del Muerto. American Indian Culture and Research Journal 22(3):31-78.
• McLaughlin, C. and T. J. Andrews (1998) Introduction. American Indian Culture and Research Journal 22(3):1-12; In, Special Volume: Farming and Ranching in Reservation Economies; T. J. Andrews and C. McLaughlin, eds.
• Andrews, T.J. (1994) A Family History of Alcohol Use; In Drinking Careers: A Twenty-five Year Study of Three Navajo Populations, by S. Kunitz and J. Levy, New Haven: Yale University Press.
• Andrews, T.J. (1992) Ecological and Historical Perspectives on Navajo Land Use and Settlement Variability at Canyons de Chelly and del Muerto. The Journal of Anthropological Research.
• Andrews, T.J. (1991) Perspectives on Caring for the Elderly. In Navajo Aging: The Transition from Family to Institutional Support, S. J.. Kunitz and J. E. Levy, Tucson: University of Arizona Press.
• Walker, R.D. and Andrews T.J (1991a, b) Site 1 Final Report: Substance Use Among Indian Youth on Western Washington Reservations, and Site 2 Final Report: Substance Use Among Indian Youth on Western Washington Reservations Ms. on file, American Indian Research Program, University of Washington, Seattle.
• Levy, J.E., Henderson, E.B., and Andrews, T.J. (1989) Effects of Regional Variation and Temporal Change on Matrilineal Elements of Navajo Social Organization. Journal of Anthropological Research.

Selected Presentations

• Andrews, T. J., with I. Gray, B. Sainsbury, and J. Naragon (2006) Poster - Environment, Migration Histories, and Childhood Health: Uses of Folk Healing and Biomedicine among Hispanic Families in Central Washington. Annual Conference, Society for Applied Anthropology, Vancouver, BC.
• Naragon, J. and T. J. Andrews (2005) Poster - Managing Water Resources: Economic "Health" versus Farm Workers Health in Central Washington State. Society for Applied Anthropology, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
• Shellenberger, J. and T. J. Andrews (2004) Poster - Native American Dance: A Window on the Past, Present, and Future. Northwest Anthropology Conference and National Social Science Association Meetings.
• Shellenberger, J. and T. J. Andrews (2002) Poster - Potlatch and Pow wow: Culture, Dance and Song. Presidential Invited Session, 100th American Anthropological Association meeting.
• Gendering Immigration Theory and Health Care Practice: Undocumented Mexican Immigrant Women and Their Children. (2001), 8th Annual Washington State Joint Conference on Health.
• Matthews, L., Vickie Ybarra and T. J. Andrews (2001) The Impact of High School Preparation on Hispanic Student College Admissions. Northwest Anthropology Conference.
• "'To Improve The Environment.': Culture and the Political Ecology of Land Use Histories in the American Southwest," (2000), Natural Science Seminar Series; College of the Sciences, CWU.

Selected Symposiums Organized/Chaired

• "Northwest Native American Basketry Association: Demonstration Workshop," (October, 2005), Central Washington University. (Participants represented the Wasco Nation, Yakama Nation, Nez Perce Tribe, and Colville Confederated Tribes).
• "Encounters with Lewis and Clark: New Perspectives on Old Stories, Native Perspectives on the Explorers." (October, 2005), Central Washington University. (Pat Courtney Gold (Wasco Nation) and Dr. Castle McLaughlin, Guest Speakers).
• "Cross-Cultural Health Programs and Clinical Care: Hispanic Experiences"; (2001), Annual Washington State Joint Conference on Health, "Health Disparities in a World Without Borders," Yakima, Washington.
  
  
• Moving from Subjects to Partners: Options, Ethics and Sustainable Health-Related Campus-Community Research. (1999), Annual National Conference, Community-Campus Partnerships For Health; Seattle.
• 20th Century Native America: Alaska and the Northwest. (1997), The 50th Northwest Anthropology Conference; Ellensburg, WA..
• Culture, Health and Healing. (1997), The 50th Northwest Anthropology Conference; Ellensburg, WA.
• Women and Subsistence in Northern Cultures: Ethnohistorical and Contemporary Perspectives, (1995), Alaska Anthropological Association, Annual Meeting; Anchorage, Alaska.
• [1] Current Social and Economic Research, and [2] Research Priorities and Project Development: Linking Community Concerns with State and Federal Perspectives; (1993), Annual Information Transfer Meetings, Department of the Interior, Minerals Management Service; Anchorage, AK.

Research and Field Internship Opportunities Developed for Undergraduate and Graduate Students

• Documentation of Native American Basketry from the Pacific Northwest; Analysis of Plateau and Northwest Coast basketry in CWU Anthropology Department collections as basis for ethnographic research and collaboration on exhibits with local museums and historical societies. (Student Research)
• U'mista Cultural Centre, Alert Bay, British Columbia, Canada; (Student Internship and Research: Projects: Kwakwaka'wakw potlatch and documenting U'mista Cultural Centre's potlatch collection.)
• The Yakima Valley Farm Workers Clinic, Yakima & Toppenish, WA. (Student Research and Internships: Projects include a] socioeconomic and health issues for undocumented Mexican immigrant women, b] gestational diabetes among Hispanics, c] childhood health issues.
• The Hispanic Academic Achievement Program, Yakima, WA. (Student Internship)
• The Cross-Cultural Health Program, Pacific Medical Center, Seattle, WA. (Student Internship)
• Hubbell Trading Post, National Historic Site, National Park Service, Ganado, Arizona - Navajo Nation; (Student Internships: Projects included local plant ecology, restoration and Navajo medicinal uses of plants; Navajo rug weaving.)
• Museum of Science and Industry, Seattle, WA. (Student Internship)
• U.S. Department of Fish and Wildlife; U.S. National Park Service, Anchorage, AK.; (Student Internships and Research: - Subsistence Division; Resource Management: Native American, Alaska State and Federal Issues and Priorities; Cultural Resources Team, Alaska Regional Office, National Park Service; Anchorage, AK)