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Juliet M. McMullin, Ph.D.

Department of Anthropology
900 University Ave, University of California, Riverside, CA. 92521-0418
julietm[at]ucr[dot]edu (e-mail)
University Profile

EDUCATION

Postdoctoral

Fellow, 2000-2002
University of California, Office of the President Postdoctoral Fellowship.
University of California, Los Angeles, California.

Graduate

Ph.D., 1991-99
School of Social Sciences, with an emphasis in Social Relations.  University of California, Irvine.

M.A., 1991-94
School of Social Sciences, with an emphasis in Social Relations.  University of California, Irvine.

Undergraduate

B.A., 1988-91 Social Science, University of California, Irvine

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

2020 – present Interim Dean College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, University of California, Riverside.                                                    2020 – present Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Riverside.                                                                                             2018 – 2020 Professor and Chair, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Riverside
2017 – 2018  Professor, Division of Clinical Sciences, School of Medicine, University of California, Riverside
2015 – 2017 Associate Professor, Division of Clinical Sciences, School of Medicine University of California, Riverside
2009 – 2015 Associate Professor Department of Anthropology, University of California, Riverside
2004 – 2009 Assistant Professor Department of Anthropology, University of California, Riverside
2004 – 2008 Assistant Professor College of Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of California, Irvine
2002 – 2004 Adjunct Assistant Professor College of Medicine, Department of Medicine University of California, Irvine

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY

Awards and Honors

2016 Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award, University of California, Riverside
2014 Society for Medical Anthropology, Graduate Student Mentorship Award
2014-15 Patricia McSweeny McCauley Chair in Teaching Excellence
2008 Junior Faculty CHASS Teaching Award, University of California, Riverside

Contracts, Grants and Research Awards (selected)

Name: Center for Health Disparities Research @ UCR (HDR@UCR) (1U54MD013368-01A1)
Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health/National Institute for Minority Health and Health Disparities
Role: Co-Principal Investigator, Principal Investigator for Community Engagement Core, Co-Principal Investigator for Faculty Recruitment Core. PI – David Lo
Dates: 8/8/2019 – 02/29/2024

Name: Gathering of Good Minds: Adapting an Historical Trauma Curriculum for Patients and Providers
Funding Agency: Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute (RUOC-8465)
Role: Principal Investigator
Dates: July 1, 2018 – June 30, 2020

Name: A Humanities Based Death and Dying Curriculum
Funding Agency: CSU Palliative Care Insitute
Role: Co-PI, with Kristen Pellecchia                                                                  Dates: October 30, 2018 – September 30, 2019

Name: Gathering of Good Minds: Adapting a Historical Trauma Curriculum for Providers and Patients
Funding Agency: Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute
Role: Principal Investigator. Collaborative Award with Riverside/San Bernardino Indian Health Inc.
Dates: July 1, 2018 – June 30, 2020

Name: Gathering of Good Minds: Engaging Native American Wellness
Funding Agency: Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute
Role: Principal Investigator. Collaborative award with Riverside/San Bernardino Indian Health Inc.
Dates: July 1, 2016 – February 28, 2018

Name: Creating Comics for Supportive Care Symptom Management
Funding Agency: City of Hope
Role: Principal Investigator
Dates: April 1, 2016 – March 31, 2017

Name: Institutional Transformation: Institutional Re-engineering Ethical Discourse in STEM (iREDS) Childers (PI)
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation (1540440)
Role: Co-Principal Investigator, PI – Kevin Esterling
Dates: October 1, 2015 – September 30, 2018

Name: Navigating Pacific Hearts
Funding Agency:  Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (UCR15HT)
Role: Principal Investigator
Dates: September 1, 2015 – August 31, 2016

Name: GAANN Fellows in Native American Studies
Funding Agency: Office of Postsecondary Education
Role: Co-Principal Investigator, PI – Clifford Trafzer
Dates: Aug 2014 – June 2017

Name: Comics and Medicine: Spaces of Care
Funding Agency: Arnold P. Gold Foundation
Role: PI, Conference Director
Dates: April 1 – Aug 30, 2015

Name: Comics and Medicine: Spaces of Care
Funding Agency: Society for Psychological Anthropology, Robert Lemelson Conference Fund
Role: PI, Conference Director
Dates: April 1 – Aug 30, 2015

Name: Comics and Medicine: Spaces of Care
Funding Agency: Vesalius Trust
Role: PI, Conference Director, with Graphic Medicine
Dates: April 1 – Aug 30, 2015

Name: Narrative in Tandem: Creating New Medical and Health Humanities Programming (AC50204-14)
Funding Agency: National Endowment for the Humanities
Role: Project Director
Dates: January 1, 2014 – December 31, 2016

Name: Look to the Source: Intergenerational Talk Story with Pacific Islander Elders (CSF11-326)
Funding Agency: California Council for the Humanities
Role: Project Director (grant author) in partnership with Pacific Islander Health Partnership
Dates: October 1, 2011 – December 31, 2012

Name: Cultural Models of Supervision: An Interdisciplinary Study (R01 HD050637-01A2)
Funding Agency: National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Role:  Principal Investigator
Dates: April 2007 – June 2011

ACADEMIC SERVICE (selected)

Editorial Advisory Committee

2020 – present Executive Editorial Board, Associate Editor, Literature and Medicine                                                                                                                     2015 – present University of Toronto Press, EthnoGRAPHIC series

Series Editor

Somatosphere – Science, Medicine and Anthropology, collaborative website. Image + Text Series editor

Service to the University

Conference Organization

• April 2018 Lead Organizer with Sherryl Vint and Fuson Wang. Artificial Life: Debating Medical Modernity. 4th Bi-Annual Medical Narratives Conference. University of California, Riverside (April 19-21).
• October 2016 Lead Organizer. Signs and Symptoms. 3rd Bi-Annual Medical Narratives Conference. University of California, Riverside (October 13-14).
• May 2016 Lead Organizer. Center for Healthy Communities Annual Retreat. University of California, Riverside (May 23).
• July 2014-August 2015 Chair and Lead Conference Organizer. Spaces of Care. 6^th International Comics and Medicine Conference.  University of California, Riverside.
• April 2013 Lead Conference Organizer – Medical Examinations: Art, Story Theory, Culver Arts Center (April 26 & 27).
• April 2007 Lead Conference Organizer – Health, Inequality and Contemporary Capitalism.  One Day UCR Conference.

Synergistic Activities

• 2013-14 “Cultures of Science” UC Multicampus Research Group, University of California Humanities Research Institute. PI – Sherryl Vint, English, UC Riverside
• July 2012-June 2013 “Medicine on the Edge” UC California Studies Consortium. – Participant. PI – Matthew Wolf-Meyer and Nancy Chen, Anthropology UC Santa Cruz.
• September 2011- 2014 Medical Narratives: Interdisciplinary Stories of Suffering and Hope. Andrew Mellon Foundation Working Group. University of California Riverside

Department Administration

• 2018-present Chair, Department of Anthropology, UCR
• 2014-2018 Associate Director for Community Engagement, Center for Healthy Communities, School of Medicine, UCR
• 2012-2014 Graduate Advisor. Department of Anthropology, UCR

UC Systemwide Service

• 2015-2018 University of California, Global Health Institute. Board Member

Research and Community Advisory Boards

• 2010-2012 UCR Center for Ideas and Society. Advisory Committee
• 2009-2011 Center of Excellence for Migration and Health, Executive Committee UCR Representative, University of California Global Health Initiative
• 2005-2007 Scientific Advisory Board for Weaving an Islander Network for Cancer Awareness, Research and Training (WINCART). National Cancer Institute funded project U01 CA114591.  PI- Sora Park Tanjasiri, Associate Professor, California State University, Fullerton
• 2005-2008 Center for Sustainable Suburban Development. Academic Advisory Board

Public Service/Media

• Summer/Fall 2016 Interview with Katy Avila for Antioch University’s journal Lunch Ticket. Stories about Bodies: Narrative Medicine with Emily Rapp Black, Juliet McMullin, & Phillip Mitchell.
• March 15, 2016 Interview with Carolyn MacMillan UC News “Where Medicine and the Humanities Meet” 
• July 3, 2015 Interview with Juliet McMullin – Comics and Medicine Conference Preview
• June 2015 Interview, Graphic Medicine: Using Comics to Educate Patients, Share Experiences 
• May 2014 Interview Stories from Comics Academe: Visualizing a Story of Cancer’s Culture
• May 17, 2014 Workshop on Grant Writing for Congressman Mark Takano
• May 29, 2013 KVCR Plugged Inland. Guest speaker on topic – Native American Medicine.
• May 2013 Special Screening May 18 & 19, Look to the Source: Pacific Islanders Intergenerational Talk Story oral history videos. Pacific Islander Ethnic Art Museum
• September 15 & 16 2012 Screening of Look to the Source: Pacific Islanders Intergenerational Talk Story oral history videos. 5^th Annual Pacific Islander Festival
• 2011-2012 ‘Ike Ku’oko’a Initiative! – This web-based initiative group sources Hawaiian language newspapers to be transcripted. The transcripted pages will be used to create a searchable digital database.
• 2007 – present Hālau Hula Lani Ola – The hālau (school) is lead by Kumu Puanani Jung – a third generation Hula Kumu. The hālau teaches dance and cultural knowledge associated with the practice of hula. Students may compete or perform in California-based events. Intermediate level hula dancer.
• 2010 Youtube video created with Introduction to Cultural Anthropology students examining their thoughts and hopes related to the university experience.
• May 21, 2008 KVCR Health Matters/Health Dialogues. Guest Speaker for topic on The Latino Health Paradox

Postdoctoral, Dissertation, and Theses Committees

Postdoctoral Advisor

Cristina Bejarano, PhD. Anthropology. UC Chancellor’s Fellow 2015-2017

PhD Dissertation Committees

Kyle Harp-Rushing, Fixing Science: Innovation, Disruption, Maintenance, and Repair at a North American Open Science Non-Profit. University of California, Riverside May 2020 (chair)

Sharon Rushing, Translation Without Medicalization: An Ethnography of the Interdisciplinary Building of a Medical and Health Humanities Program. University of California, Riverside June 2020 (chair)

Kara Miller, Care is an Everyday Revolution: The Criminalized and Compulsory Work of Uganda’s Village Midwives. Ph.D. Dissertation in Anthropology, University of California, Riverside. June 2017 (chair) Current position: Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, California State University Long Beach. (tenure track)

Lisa Garibaldi, When Food Becomes Money: Well-being and Care in a Fijian Village. Ph.D. Dissertation in Anthropology, University of California, Riverside. June 2015 (chair)

Jessica Bodoh-Creed, When Pfizer met McDreamy: A Classic American Love Story between Medicine and the Media. December 2013 (chair) – Current Position: Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, California State University, Los Angeles

Shyh-Wei Yang, Being Aboriginal and Taiwanese in the Pursuit of Community Well-Being: Examining the Janus-Face of Public Health Among Bunun Peoples Ph.D. Dissertation in Anthropology, University of California, Riverside. September 2013 (member)

Nicholas Welcome, The Smell of Petroleum: Citizenship, Health, and Insecurity in “Revolutionary” Ecuador. Ph.D. Dissertation in Anthropology, University of California, Riverside. June 2013 (chair)

Alicia Bolton, A Rua é Nossa (The Street is Ours): In Search of Childhood and Rights on the Streets of Guarulhos, Brazil.  Ph.D. Dissertation in Anthropology, University of California, Riverside. December 2012 (chair) – Current Position: Project Manager – USC, Center for Self-Report Science & Center for Economic and Social Research

Jelena Radovic Fanta, Dando Vuelta el Año: Seasonality, Neoliberalism, and Personhood in Chile’s Aconcagua Valley. Ph.D. Dissertation in Anthropology, University of California, Riverside. December 2012 (member) – Current Position: Assistant Professor (tenure track), Department of Anthropology and Sociology, Governors State University

Laurette McGuire, Native Americans and Type 2 Diabetes: The Discourse of Predisposition and its Politics. Ph.D. Dissertation in Anthropology, University of California, Riverside. November 2012 (chair) Current position – Associate Professor (tenured), Department of Anthropology, California State University, San Marcos

Daniel Diaz, Getting Schooled: Intra-ethnic Differentiation, School Acts in Making Differences.  Ph.D. Dissertation in Anthropology, University of California, Riverside.  December 2010. (member)

Jennifer Miller-Thayer, Medical Migration: Strategies for Affordable Care in an Unaffordable System.  Ph.D. Dissertation in Anthropology, University of California, Riverside.  December 2010. (co-chair with Carlos Velez-Ibañez) – Current position – Lecturer, California State University, San Bernardino

Jesse Karnes, “It’s our Country too!”: Palestinian Identity and the Islamic Claim to Human Rights in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. Ph.D. Dissertation in Anthropology, University of California, Riverside, June 2009 (chair)

Karen Drummond Learning to Care for the Dying: An Anthropological Examination of Palliative Care Education in American Biomedicine Ph.D. Dissertation in Anthropology, University of California, Irvine, June 2007.  (member) – Current position. Associate Professor (tenured), Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences.

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