Employment/academic appointments
Associate Professor (Maître de Conférences Titulaire), Anthropology, Université Lyon 2 (2006- present). Currently on leave.
Research Consultant for Qualitative Methods, Mayo Clinic, Rochester (since 2009)
Visiting Scholar, Department of Anthropology, University of Minnesota (2009-present)
Research Fellow, Program for Bioethics Research, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine (2008-2009).
Assistant Professor (Maître de Conférences stagiaire), Anthropology, Université Lyon 2 (2005- 2006).
Guest Lecturer, Ethnology, University of Paris X-Nanterre (2006)
Postdoctoral Fellow and Visiting Researcher, Laboratoire d'Anthropologie Sociale, Paris (funded by the FYSSEN Postdoctoral Fellowship 2004-2005).
Education (back to top)
PhD in Anthropology, University of Oregon (2004).
MA in Ethnology, Université Lumière Lyon 2 (1998).
DEUG in Sociology, Université Lumière Lyon 2, France (1996).
Abitur Sophienschule Hannover, Germany (1993).
Research affiliations (back to top)
Visiting Scholar, Department of Anthropology, University of Minnesota (present)
Affiliated Researcher, Knowledge and Encounter Research (KER) Unit, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA (2009-present)
Affiliated Researcher, Olmsted Medical Center Research, Rochester MN, USA (2010-present)
Researcher of the Workgroup Creative Responses to Sustainability CERES 21, (2006-present).
Research Fellow, Bioethics, Mayo Clinic, College of Medicine (February 2008- June 2009)
Researcher at the Centre de Recherches et d'Études Anthropologiques (CREA), Université Lyon 2, Lyon (2005-present).
Researcher, Research Group of Prof. Philippe Descola "Les raisons de la pratique: invariants, universaux, diversité," Laboratoire d'Anthropologie Sociale, Paris (2004-2007).
Visiting Researcher, "The Huasteca: Society, Culture, and Natural Resources: Past and Present" Center for Advanced Research and Higher Education in Social Anthropology (CIESAS), Mexico (1999-2002).
Research projects (back to top)
Current
Co-Investigator, "Healthy Immigrant Families: Working Together to Move More and to Eat Well, Phase 1: Focus groups to Inform Intervention Guide Development," PI: Wieland (Mayo Clinic)
Consultant, "Healthy Immigrant Families: Working Together to Move More and to Eat Well, "Rochester Community Health Partnership (RHCP), PIs: Sia, Nigon, Wieland (Mayo Clinic)
Co-Investigator, "Translating Information on Comparative Effectiveness into Practice" (TRICEP Trial), PI: Shah (Mayo Clinic)
Co-Investigator, "Diabetes Clinical Choice Trial" ("The Impact of Decision Aids to Enhance Shared Decision Making for Diabetes"), PI: Montori (Mayo Clinic)
Completed
Co-Investigator, "Cultural Expectations Surrounding Breastfeeding Initiation among Immigrant Populations (Somali, Hispanic, Asian)" PI: B. Yawn OMC, (Dec 2010- June 2011)
Co-Investigator "A Proof of Principle Trial of Communication to Patients Receiving Predictive Genetic Risk Assessment," (qualitative research on bioethics and genomics),PI: Clayton Cowl, Mayo Clinic (2008-2009).
Principal Investigator, Field Research on natural protected areas, indigenous management, and ecotourism in Mexico (January 2008, March-April 2005).
Principal Investigator, Dissertation Field Research on indigenous land claims, indigenous religions, and cosmology in the Huasteca (April-Mai 1999, July-August 2000, January 2002-January 2003 and April-July 2003).
Research Assistant (ethnographic field research with Mexican farmworkers in Oregon) for the project: "The Life of a Strawberry." PI: Lynn Stephen (September 2000-June 2001).
Research Assistant (archival research in the Oregon Farmworker Union PCUN) for the project: "The Farmworker Movement in Oregon." PI: Lynn Stephen (September 1999-June 2000).
Research Assistant (oral history interviews with African American and Latino civil rights activists) for the project "Social Justice in Oregon." PI: James Strassmeier, Oral History Department, Oregon Historical Society (January-June 1999).
Master's Field Research on gender and development and identity politics in rural Mexico (June-August 1997 and January-March 1998).
Professional service (back to top)
Secretary of the International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture (ISSRNC), (since 2006-2009, and 2011-present).
Social Science At-Large Member of the Executive Board of the International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature & Culture (ISSRNC) (2009-2011)
Member of the Board of Advisors of the ISSRNC, (since 2005).
Executive Committee Member, European Forum for the Study of Religion and the Environment (EFSRE), (2005-2007).
Freshman Curriculum Director, Anthropology, Université Lyon 2 (2006-2007).
Library Committee Representative, Anthropology, Université Lyon 2 (2005-2007).
Executive Committee Member, Center for the Study of Women in Society (CSWS), (2001-2002).
Editorial board member/ reviewer (back to top)
Ad hoc Reviewer, Téoros Revue de Recherche en Tourisme
Ad hoc Reviewer, American Anthropologist
Ad hoc Reviewer, Österreichische Forschungsgemeinschaft
Editorial Board Member, Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture.
Editorial Board Member, CURARE, Journal for Medical Anthropology.
Editorial Board Member, Journal of Ecological and Environmental Anthropology http://eea.anthro.uga.edu/index.php/eea
Conferences and Presentations (back to top)
Conference organizer
Scientific Committee Member of the Conference organizing team, 3 rd ISSRNC conference,Amsterdam July 23-26, 2009, Theme: "Religion, Nature, and Progress."
Program Chair (with Co-Chair Anuschka van't Hooft, UASLP), International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture, Second International Meeting, Morelia 2008 (Mexico), Jan 17-20.
Conference Theme: "The Re-Enchantment of Nature across Disciplines: Critical Intersections of Science, Ethics, and Metaphysics.http://www.religionandnature.com/society/conferences.htm
Panel organizer
Panel: "Transforming Political Ecology: Articulating Symbolic/Political/Technological Representations of Nature," Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, November 2008
Panel: "Ethnographies of Development and Humanitarian Aid: Challenging Dis-/Engaged Anthropology," Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, November 2008 (co-organized with Laetitia Atlani-Duault)
Panel: "Indigenous Nature Reverence and Environmental Degradation: Exploring Critical Intersections of Animism and Conservation." Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, San José, California, November 2006 (organized with Jeffrey Snodgrass).
Panel: "Sacred Does not Always Mean Green: Indigenous Perspectives on the Environment and Conservation." International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture, Inaugural Meeting, Gainesville, April 2006.
Panel: "Cultural Difference, Resource Management, and Indigenous Rights." Annual Meeting, Society for Applied Anthropology (SFAA). Portland, March 2003.
Panel: "Representations of Gendered Praxis. Issues of Power, Politics, and Reciprocity in Ethnographic Research." Annual Feminist Graduate Student Conference Feminism Unbound. Eugene, May 2001.
Panel: "Globalization, Poverty and Economic Development in Latin America." Annual Meeting, Society for Applied Anthropology. Mérida, Mexico, March 2001.
Moderator/discussant (back to top)
Discussant for the Panel: "Environmental Values and Religiosity: The Expansion of WorldReligions and the Implications for Environmental Conservation and Stewardship," organized by Jerry Jacka for SFAA 2009
Moderator for the Panel: Discussion of the documentary "Hold Your Breath," Mayo School of Health Sciences and University of Minnesota, Rochester, April 2008
Discussant for the Panel: "Indigenous Spiritualities" (Anthropology of Religion Organized Session). Second International Meeting of the International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture, Morelia, Mexico, January 2008
Discussant for the Panel: "Groupes ethniques, ressources naturelles et l'Etat en Amérique Latine," Conference: "L'État et transnationalité : espaces recomposés," at École des Hautes Études des Sciences Sociales (EHESS), organized by Alban Bensa and Jonathan Friedman, Laboratoire Genèse et Transformations Sociales (GTMS), May 2005 .
Discussant for the Panel: "Cultura Huasteca. Un estudio de caso: Tlamanes en la Huasteca potosina." Segundo Coloquio de Semiología Musical, Escuela Nacional de Música/UNAM, Mexico City, September 2002 .
Invited lectures (back to top)
"Qualitative Methods: Introduction and Focus Groups," Healthcare and Delivery (HEDER) meetings, December 2011, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
"Nahua Science/Western Science: Climate Change and Agency in the Huasteca," Plenary Lecture at ISSRNC annual meeting, Amsterdam, Netherlands, July 2009
"Consumer Genomics at the Clinic: Initial Results." Bioethics Research Forum, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, MN, October 2008
"Direct-to-Consumer Predictive Genomics comes to the Clinic: Assessing Hopes and Challenges from an Ongoing Clinical Trial." Medical Genetics Research Forum, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, MN, August 2008
"Civil Society, Climate Change, and Indigenous Peoples": New Challenges." 7th workshop of the Oslo Workgroup CERES 21, Oslo, August 2008
"Rituels télévisés : Altérités ambivalentes dans la mise en pratique du multiculturalisme mexicain." Séminaire: "Les raisons de la pratique." Laboratoire d'Anthropologie Sociale, Paris, June 2006.
"Espaces ethnicisés: Enjeux identitaires de la patrimonialisation territoriale." Colloque: "La patrimonialisation des espaces naturels et ruraux : regards croisés Mexique-France." EHESS, Paris, June 2006.
"La construction d'une citoyenneté culturelle latina: Communautés, espaces, et droits aux États-Unis." Journée d'Études: "Ethnogenèse, ethnicité, autochtonie." Université Lyon 2, March 2006.
"Voices of the 'Other': Indigenous Perspectives on Sustainability, Democracy, and Development." First meeting of the Oslo Sustainability Initiative (OSI): "Alternative Visions for Sustainability and Democracy: 20 Years after Brundtland." Centre for Development and the Environment (SUM), University of Oslo, Norway, February 2006.
"Land Reforms and Indigenous Rights in Mexico." Noragric Seminar. Department of International Environment and Development Studies (Noragric). Norwegian University of Life Sciences, February 2006.
"Conservons la nature pour les touristes: Les dimensions sociales et économiques de la protection de l'environnement au Mexique." Journée d'Etudes Espaces protégés et populations locales organized by Phillippe Descola, Adel Selmi, et Vincent Hirtzel. Laboratoire d'Anthropologie Sociale (LAS), Paris, December 2005.
"Cultural and Spiritual Values of Nature for Understanding Health and Healing: Teyomej and Other Earth Spirits in Nahua Etiology." Public lecture at the University of Florida, September 2005.
"Experiences from the Field: The Politics of Place and Indigenous Activism in Central Mexico." FOREST Lunch Conversation, University of Florida, September 2005 .
"Religion and Ecology in the Mexican Catholic Church: Toward A Political Ecology of the Sacred." Exploratory Workshop, European Science Foundation, Religion and the Environment in Europe (EFSRE). Benediktbeuern, Germany, June 2005.
"Un lugar en la nación: La television, el pluriculturalismo y la indigenización de los espacios negativos en la Huasteca," Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí (UASLP), March 2005.
"L'expérience du paysage: Savoir, vision et sens de lieu chez les Nahua de la Huastèque."Seminar Symbolic Ecology directed by Philippe Descola, EHESS, Paris, January 2005.
"Tohueynana es nuestro orígen : Ecologie politique et nationalisme alternatif chez les Nahuas,Teenek et Xi'Oi (Mexique)." Colloque des Américanistes: "Espaces habités et paysages : usages identitaires des pratiques et représentations écologiques dans la construction des appartenances locales." CERMA, Paris, January 2005.
"Human Variation and Popular Misconceptions about Race. Panel: What is Race?" Community Conversations. University of Oregon, April 2004.
"Ecology, Cosmology, and Indigenous Peoples in Mexico: Conservation Efforts in the Huasteca." Association of the Pacific Rim Doctoral Students' Conference (APRU) 2003, Mexico City, August 2003.
"Indigenous Women in the Huasteca," Presentation on the Educational Webpage, Center for the Study of Women in Society, Eugene, March 2003.
"Gender, Ethnic Identity, and Empowerment in Rural Grassroots-Development. An Outlook From the Huasteca," Cressman Award Winning Paper Lecture at the Anthropology Colloquia Series, University of Oregon, Eugene, February 2003.
"Mapping Nature? Sacred Ecology in the Huasteca Region." Seminar of the Huasteca Regions, Instituto de Investigaciones Antropológicas (IIA-UNAM), Mexico City, September 2002.
Conference paper presentations (back to top)
"Understanding the Normalization of Decision Aids in Chronic Disease Management: A qualitative study of patients and clinicians in rural primary care practices", K. Tiedje et al., Second Annual Shared Decision Making Symposium at Washington University in St. Louis. MI, March 14, 2012
"I like my piece of pie": Understanding Patients' Experiences of Diabetes Disease Management Work Through Qualitative Research, K. Tiedje et al., Minnesota 16 th Annual Health Services Research Conference, March 6, 2012
"A Qualitative Study Normalizing Decision Aids in Chronic Disease Management", K. Tiedje et al. Minnesota 16 th Annual Health Services Research Conference, March 6, 2012
"What does 'culture' have to do with milk? Cultural Models and Early Breastfeeding Beliefs and Practices Among Somali, Asian and Latina Women in the United States," K. Tiedje , Lauren Texter, Barbara Yawn , Annual Meeting Deutsche Gesellschaft für Völkerkunde, Vienna, Austria, September 15-18, 2011
"Nahua Science/Western Science: Local Perceptions of Climate Change in Mexico" for a panel on climate change, Santa Fe, SFAA 2009
"Processes of Appropriation, Translation, and Articulation in the Context of Conservation Politics " for a panel on conservation politics, Santa Fe, SFAA 2009
"Views and Visions of Personalized Genomics: A Cultural Approach." Paper scheduled to present at the American Society for Bioethics + Humanities, Cleveland, OH, October 2008.
"Introduction: Transforming Political Ecology: Articulating Symbolic/Political/Technological Representations of Nature." Scheduled to present at the Annual Meeting of the American Antrhopological Association, San Francisco, CA, November 2008.
"Against Environmentalism? A Political Ecology of Conservation in the Sierra Madre (Mexico)." Panel: Anthropology, Environmentalism and Justice: Exploring Interconnections, organized by Leslie Sponsel. Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington D.C., November 2007.
"Contesting Conservation: Animism and Environmental Ethics in Nahua Spirituality." Panel: "Indigenous Nature Reverence and Environmental Degradation: Exploring Critical Intersections of Animism and Conservation." Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, San José, California, November 2006.
"Participación política, mediaciones, y la busqueda de la autonomía local en la Huasteca (Mexico)." Panel: Participación política y pueblos indígenas: Nuevas mediaciones y derechos emergentes, organized by F. Lartigue, L. Rodriguez-Pinero, A. Martinez de Briga, 52nd Congreso Internacional de Americanistas (ICA), Sevilla (Spain), July 2006.
"It Is Not Easy Being Green: Ecotourism and Conflicting Nature Views in Huasteca (Mexico) Protected Areas." Panel: Sacred Does Not Always Mean Green: Indigenous Perspectives on the Environment and Conservation, organized by K. Tiedje for the ISSRNC Inaugural Meeting, Gainesville, April 2006.
"Que sucede con PROCEDE? Indigenous Responses to the End of Land Restitution Programs in Rural Mexico. " Panel : Restoring What Was Theirs : The Rights and Wrongs of Land Restitution, organized by D. Fay and D. James. American Anthropological Association (AAA) Annual Meeting, Washington DC, December 2005 .
"A Place in the Nation: Indigenous Mapping, Multiculturalism, and Media in Mexico." Annual Meeting of the German Society for Ethnology (DGV), Halle, October 2005 (Abstract accepted, unable to attend).
"Environmental Degradation and Indigenous Rights: The Politics of Nature, Health, and Healing in Central Mexico." Annual Meeting of the German Association for Medical Anthropology (AGEM), Kassel, October 2005.
"No queremos el PROCEDE! Indigenous Mapping in Rural Mexico to Counteract the Reform of the Agrarian Reform." Invited Session: Mapping Peoples and Their Places. Conference of Latin American Geographers, Morélia, Mexico, October 2005 (Abstract accepted, unable to attend).
"La música del arpa entre los nahuas de la Huasteca. Performance y simbolismo." Co-presented with Gonzalo Camacho. Encuentro deInvestigadores de la Huasteca, Xalapa, Mexico, September 2004 .
"Visual Anthropology and Representation: Nahuas and Teenek in Mexico." UO Anthropology Colloquia Series: Representation and Reflexivity. Eugene, November 2003.
"Making Ethnic Identity: Ritual as Praxis in the Huasteca, Mexico," Society for the Anthropology of Religion/Ethnological Society, Providence, April 2003.
"Mapping Nature, Constructing Culture: Indigenous Patrimony and Cultural Difference in the Huasteca, Mexico" Society for Applied Anthropology. Portland, March 2003 .
"Living with the Landscape: Nahua Stories and Ritual Practices in the Huasteca Potosina," Encuentro de los Investigadores de la Huasteca, Huejutla, Mexico, October 2002 .
"The Politics of Ethnography. Fieldwork and Reciprocity in Rural Mexico."Annual Feminist Graduate Student Conference Feminism Unbound. Eugene, May 2001 .
"The Life of a Strawberry. Labor and Consumer Relations from the Field to the Dinnerplate." Co-presented with Dr. Lynn Stephen, Rosa López, Jill Nicola, Gabriel Guzmán, María de la Torre. Wayne Morse Chair Conference Labor in a Global Economy. Eugene, May 2001.
"The Life of a Strawberry. Activism and Academics in the Labor Relations of Food." Co-Presented with Dr. Lynn Stephen, Rosa López, Jill Nicola, Gabriel Guzmán, María de la Torre, Erik Nicholson, and Leonides Avila. Working Out West Conference. Portland, May 2001.
"(En)gendering Indigenous Revival and Sustainable Development Through Rural Grassroots-Organizing, Mexico." Annual Meeting Society for Applied Anthropology. Mérida, Mexico, March 2001.
"Women in Sustainable Development in the Huasteca Region of Mexico." Annual Student Conference on Latin America (ILASSA). Austin, February 2001.
Grants and Fellowships (back to top)
Federal
R01 HL111407-01 NIH National Institute of Health, January 2012- December 2017, "Healthy Immigrant Families: Working Together to Move More and to Eat Well", PI: Sia, Nigon, Wieland (Mayo): The goal is to develop and implement a family fitness program through community-based participatory research in four different ethnic communities in Rochester MN, Role: Consultant
R18HS 18339-1 AHRQ Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, 12/1/2009-11/30/2014 PI: Shah (Mayo): The goal is to evaluate effective implementation and use of decision aids for translating comparative effectiveness into practice in a practice-based research network, Role: Co-Investigator
R34DK 84009-1, NIDDK National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, 9/15/2009-2/29/2011, PI: Montori (Mayo): The goal is to determine the impact of patient decision aids vs. usual care in the care of patients with type 2 diabetes in non-urban practices in the Midwestern US, Role: Co-Investigator
State
Olmsted Medical Center Study 062-OMC-10, Minnesota Department of Health, Statewide Health Improvement Program (SHIP), November, 2010-June 2011, "Cultural Expectations Surrounding Breastfeeding Initiation among Immigrant Populations (Somali, Hispanic, Asian)", PI: Yawn, OMC: The goal is to assess reasons immigrant populations cite for late breastfeeding initiation, Role: Co-Investigator
Industry
Navigenics Inc., 1/1/2008-10/1/2009, "A proof of principle study of patients and physicians reflectiving on predictive genomic risk assessment directly to consumers", PI: Cowl (Mayo): The goal is to assess the perception of direct-to-consumer genetic testing in the clinical encounter, Role: Co-Investigator
Internal (back to top)
Mayo Clinic CTSA CReFF Award, July 2011-June 2012, PI: Wieland (Mayo), "Healthy Immigrant Families: Working Together to Move More and to Eat Well; Phase 1: Focus Groups to Inform Intervention Guide Development": The goal is to conduct focus groups to develop a family fitness program through community-based participatory research in four different ethnic communities in Rochester MN, Role: Co-investigator
University of Oregon Grants
2003, Dissertation Research Grant, CSWS, University of Oregon
2002, Conference Travel Grant, Anthropology, University of Oregon
2002, Graduate Student Research Grant, CSWS, University of Oregon
2001, Conference Travel Grant, Anthropology, University of Oregon
2001, Conference Travel Grant, CSWS, University of Oregon
2000, Research Travel Grant, CSWS, University of Oregon
Research Fellowships
2008-2009, Research Fellowship, Bioethics Research/General Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic
2004-2005, Postdoctoral Fellowship, FYSSEN Foundation (Paris, France)
2002, Dissertation Research Fellowship, Center for Advanced Research and Higher Education in Social Anthropology (CIESAS), Mexico
2001-2002, Sasakawa International Trade and Development Graduate Fellowship, Tokyo Foundation Sylff Program
2000-2001, Sasakawa International Trade and Development Graduate Fellowship, Tokyo Foundation Sylff Program
2000, Laurel Fellowship for Dissertation Research, CSWS, University of Oregon
1999-2000, HSP III Doctoral Fellowship, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), Germany
Teaching Fellowships
2003-2004, Stern Teaching Fellowship, Anthropology, University of Oregon
2003-2004, Graduate Teaching Fellowship, Humanities, University of Oregon
2002-2003, Graduate Teaching Fellowship, Anthropology, University of Oregon
1999-2001, Graduate Teaching Fellowship, Anthropology, University of Oregon
Awards and Honors (back to top)
Elected Fellow, Society for Applied Anthropology (2007)
Stern Teaching Fellowship, Anthropology, University of Oregon (2003-2004) .
Graduate Student Research Award, Graduate School, University of Oregon (2003).
Graduate Teaching Fellowship, Humanities, University of Oregon (2003-2004).
Invited Delegate, Association of Pacific Rim Universities (APRU), Conference held at the UNAM, Mexico (2003).
Graduate Teaching Fellowship, Anthropology, University of Oregon (2002-2003).
Cressman Award, Anthropology, University of Oregon (2002).
Laurel Fellowship, CSWS, University of Oregon (2000) .
Graduate Teaching Fellowship, Anthropology, University of Oregon (1999-2001).
Félicitation du Jury, Maitrise Thesis, Université Lyon 2, France (1998).
Languages (back to top)
German: Native language
French: Fluent speaking, reading, writing
English: Fluent speaking, reading, writing
Spanish: Fluent speaking reading, writing
Portuguese: speaking, reading
Huastecan Nahuatl: Good comprehension and speaking
Classic Nahuatl: 2 years of study
Latin: Latinum
professional memberships (back to top)
International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture
German Society for Ethnology
German Workgroup for Medical Anthropology (AGEM)
American Anthropological Association
Society for Applied Anthropology
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