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email: mclea1ah@cmich.edu

Education

• Ph.D., Temple University, 1990
• M.A., University of Pittsburgh, 1980
• B.A., Temple University, 1977

Areas of Teaching Expertise

• Cultural Anthropology
• Sociology of Aging
• History of Anthropology Theory
• Sociology of Health and Illness
• Medical Anthropology

Research Interests

• Medical Anthropology
• Aging
• Critical Perspectives
• Political Economy
• Dementia and Institutionalization
• Community Mental Health
• Oral History
• Social Movements
• Greek Diaspora
• Identity

Selected Publications

• "Learn to Value Your Shadow!" An Introduction to the Margins of Fieldwork. (with Annette Leibing). In The Shadow Side of Field Work: Theorizing the Blurred Borders between Ethnography and Life, edited by Athena McLean and Annette Leibing, pp. 1-28. Blackwell Publishing, Malden, MA. 2007.
• "When the Borders of Research and Personal Life become Blurred: Thorny Issues In Conducting Dementia Research." In The Shadow Side of Field Work: Theorizing the Blurred Borders between Ethnography and Life, edited by Athena McLean and Annette Leibing, pp. 262-287. Blackwell Publishing, Malden, MA. 2007.
• "Dementia Care as a Moral Enterprise: A Call for a Return to the Sanctity of Lived Time." Alzheimer's Care Today (formerly, Alzheimer's Care Quarterly). 8(4):360-372, 2007.
• "The Therapeutic Landscape of Dementia Care: Intersubjective Aspects in the Sustenance of the Person." In Therapeutic Landscapes: Advances and Application, edited by Allison Williams, pp. 315-332. Ashgate Press, Hampshire. 2007.
• The Person in Dementia: A Study of Nursing Home Care in the U.S. Broadview Press, Toronto, 2007.
• "From Commodity to Community: An Impossibility?" Forum. Ageing and Society 26: 925-937.
• Book review of Autobiographical Writing Across the Disciplines: A Reader, edited by Diane Freedmand and Olivia Frey, for publication in Anthropology and Education Quarterly, forthcoming, Volume 36.4, December 2005.
• "Coherence Without Facticity in Dementia: the Curious Case of Ms. Fine." Accepted for Thinking About Dementia: Culture, Loss and the Anthropology of Senility, edited by Annette Leibing (McGill) and Lawrence Cohen (Berkeley), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2004.
• "Recovering Consumers and a broken mental health system in the United States: Ongoing Challenges for Consumers/Survivors and the New Freedom Commission on Mental Health", International Journal of Psychosocial Rehabilitation, Volume 8: 53-76.
• "Power in the Nursing Home: The Case of a Special Care Unit," Medical Anthropology 19: 223-257, 2001.