kristina[at]ktiedje.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Kristina Tiedje is a Research-Teaching Professor (Enseignant-Chercheur Titulaire) of Anthropology in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the Universit\u00e9 Lumi\u00e8re Lyon 2 in France. Her research is in medical and environmental anthropology. She was trained at the Universit\u00e9 Lumi\u00e8re Lyon 2 for her undergraduate studies in sociology and ethnology and for her Master\u2019s in ethnology (1998). <\/span><\/p>\n

She was trained at the University of Oregon for her PhD (2004) in anthropology with a specialization in cultural anthropology. She also did a FYSSEN postdoctoral fellowship (2004-2005) at the Laboratoire d\u2019Anthropologie Sociale (Paris, France) and a Research Fellowship (2008-2009) in Bioethics Research at the Mayo Clinic (Rochester, MN USA). She joined the faculty at Lyon 2 in 2005 and received tenure in 2006. While on leave from Lyon 2, she has been a Visiting Scholar in Anthropology at the University of Minnesota and an affiliated research with the Mayo Clinic. <\/span><\/p>\n

She currently conducts research in the field of medical anthropology with immigrant and refugees and other vulnerable populations in the United States. She is working on projects related to migrant suffering and resilience, alternative models of healthcare, and diet and physical activity among immigrants. Since 2008, she has been a Co-Investigator on several NIH funded research projects on doctor patient communication, shared decision-making, and burden of treatment. In addition, she keeps in touch with her earlier field in the Huasteca region in Mexico where she has conducted long-term fieldwork and continues to work with Nahuas and Teenek people on issues pertaining to religion and nature, healing and conservation.<\/span><\/p>\n

Moreover, she serves on the editorial board of Curare. Journal for Medical Anthropology and of the Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture (JSRNC). She serves as secretary on the board of the International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture and is a member of the Advisory Board.<\/span><\/p>\n

She has published and given presentations in four languages and is currently working on a book manuscript on migrant suffering and on several article manuscripts in medical and environmental anthropology, including a special issue on eco-spiritualities and western epistemologies for JSRNC.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Research Interests<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Medical anthropology; immigrant health; health disparities; social suffering; shamanism; ritual healing; shared decision making; Normalization Process Theory (NPT)<\/span><\/p>\n

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Research Area(s)<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Mexico; USA<\/span><\/p>\n

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Publications<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Monographs and Edited Volumes<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

2008. (with Jeffrey Snodgrass) \u2018Indigenous Religions and Environments: Intersections of Animism and Nature Conservation\u2019. Journal of the Study of Religion, Nature & Culture 2008, Vol. 2(1), Contributors: M. Amster, N. Bird-David, L. Obadia, K. Pickering and B. Jewett, J. Snodgrass, and K. Tiedje.<\/span><\/p>\n

2007. (with Ekkehard Schr\u00f6der) \u2018Medizinethnologie on the Move: Neue medizinanthropologische Perspektiven\u2019. Curare. Journal for medical anthropology and transcultural psychiatry 2007, 30(2+3). Contributors: L. Albers, W. Bichmann, C. Deimel, H. Jaeger, C. Kloepfer, K. Tiedje, M. Vivod.<\/span><\/p>\n

Journal Articles (peer-reviewed)<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

2013. (Mark L. Wieland, Kristina Tiedje, Sonia Meiers, Ahmed A. Mohamed, Christine Formea, Jennifer Ridgeway, Gladys Asiedu, Ginny Boyum, Jenny A. Weis, Julie A. Nigon, C. Patten, Irene G. Sia) \u2018Perspectives on physical activity among immigrants and refugees to a small urban community in Minnesota\u2019. In: Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health. Accepted May 2013.<\/span><\/p>\n

2013. (Kristina Tiedje, Nathan D. Shippee^{,<\/sup> Anna M. Johnson, Priscilla M. Flynn, Dawn M. Finnie, Juliette T. Liesinger, Carl R. May, Marianne E. Olson, Jennifer L. Ridgeway, Nilay D. Shah, Barbara P. Yawn, Victor M. Montori) \u2018\u201cThey leave at least believing they had a part in the discussion\u201d: Understanding decision aid use and patient\u2013clinician decision-making through qualitative research\u2019. Patient Education and Counseling, Article in press, corrected proof available online April 17, 2013,} http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1016\/j.pec.2013.03.013<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

2012. (Kasey R Boehmer, Laurie J Pencille, Holly Van Houten, Marc Matthews, Nilay D Shah, Carl R May, Barbara P Yawn, Victor M Montori) \u2018The Impact of Decision Aids to Enhance Shared Decision Making for Diabetes (the DAD Study): Protocol of a Cluster Randomized Trial\u2019. In: BMC Health Services Research 2012, 12: 130. doi:10.1186\/1472-6963-12-130 .<\/span><\/p>\n

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2011. (Katherine M. James, Clayton T. Cowl, Jon C. Tilburt, Pamela S. Sinicrope, Marguerite E. Robinson, Katrin R. Frimannsdottir, Kristina Tiedje, Barbara A. Koenig) \u2018Impact of direct-to-consumer predictive genomic testing on risk perception and worry among patients receiving routine care in a preventive health clinic\u2019. Mayo Clinic Proceedings <\/i>October 2011, Vol. 86 Nr. 10: 933-940.<\/span><\/p>\n

2010. \u2018Patrimonialisation et politisation de la c\u00e9r\u00e9monie du Feu Nouveau : Du rituel au spectacle\u2019. In: Cahiers des Am\u00e9riques Latines, 2010 Vol. 65: 35-50, Issue: Tourisme patrimonial et soci\u00e9t\u00e9s locales en Am\u00e9rique Latine edited by Ma\u00eft\u00e9 Boullosa, Magali Demanget and David Dumoulin.<\/span><\/p>\n

2008. (with Jeffrey Snodgrass) \u2018Indigenous Nature Reverence and Conservation: Seven Ways of Transcending an Unnecessary Dichotomy\u2019. In: Journal of the Study of Religion, Nature & Culture 2008 Vol. 2(1): 5-28.<\/span><\/p>\n

2008. \u2018Situating the Corn-Child: Articulating Animism and Conservation from a Nahua Perspective\u2019. In: Journal of the Study of Religion, Nature & Culture (JSRNC) 2008 Vol. 2(1): 93-116.<\/span><\/p>\n

2007. (with Ekkehard Schr\u00f6der) \u2018Medizinanthropologische Perspektiven zum Thema Lebenswelt in der deutschsprachigen Ethnologie. Einleitung zu Curare 30(2+3): Medizinethnologie on the Move\u2019. In: Curare Journal for medical anthropology and transcultural psychiatry 2007 Vol. 30 (2+3): 101-110.<\/span><\/p>\n

2007. \u2018The Politics of Eco-Social Well-Being in Nahua Society: Negotiating Lifeworlds through Indigenous Rights Claims\u2019. In: Curare Journal for medical anthropology and transcultural psychiatry 2007 Vol. 30 (2+3): 121-130.<\/span><\/p>\n

2007. \u2018The Promise of the Sacred for Conservation (and its Limits)\u2019. In: Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature & Culture (JSRNC) 2007 Vol. 1(3): 124-138.<\/span><\/p>\n

2007. \u2018Les politiques culturelles de la nature au Mexique: Le cas de Grottes du Vent et de la Fertilit\u00e9\u2019. In: Journal des Am\u00e9ricanistes 2007 <\/i>Vol. 93 (1) : 201-221.<\/span><\/p>\n

2006. \u2018Des modernit\u00e9s autres: L’\u00e9quinoxe de printemps et la performance de la mexicanit\u00e9\u2019. In: Socio-anthropologie <\/i>2006 <\/i>Vol. 17-18: 97-112.<\/span><\/p>\n

2005. \u2018People, place, and politics in the Huasteca, Mexico\u2019. In: Anthropology Today <\/i>2005 <\/i>21(4): 13-17.<\/span><\/p>\n

2005. (with Gonzalo Camacho) \u2018La m\u00fasica del arpa entre los nahuas de la Huasteca. Simbolismo y aspectos performativos\u2019. In: Anales de Antropolog\u00eda, 2005 39(2): 119-150.<\/span><\/p>\n

Chapters in Edited Books<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

2012. (with Gonzalo Camacho) \u2018La m\u00fasica del arpa entre los nahuas de la Huasteca. Simbolismo y aspectos performativos\u2019. In: Nahuas in the Huasteca, Anuschka Van\u2019t Hooft (eds.). Mexico: Ahuacatitla Press.<\/span><\/p>\n

2009. \u2018Le genre\u2019. In: Atlani-Duault, L. and L. Vidal (eds): Introduction \u00e0 l’anthropologie de l’aide humanitaire et du d\u00e9veloppement. pp. 203-228. Paris: Armand Colin.<\/span><\/p>\n

2009. \u2018Que sucede con PROCEDE? The End of Land Restitution in Mexico\u2019. In: Fay, Derick and Deborah James (eds.): The Rights and Wrongs of Land Restitution: Restoring What Was Ours. pp. 209-233. Taylor and Francis.<\/span><\/p>\n

2009. \u2018Curaci\u00f3n y maleficio entre los nahuas potosinos\u2019. In: P. Gallardo (ed): Curanderos y Medicina Tradicional en la Huasteca. pp. 17-54. Mexico: CONACULTA.<\/span><\/p>\n

2003. \u2018Mujeres Nahuas de La Huasteca: Negociaciones de etnicidad y g\u00e9nero en una cooperativa rural\u2019. In: Ruvalcaba, J. and J.M. Per\u00e9z Z. (eds): \u00a1Viva la Huasteca! J\u00f3venes Miradas sobre la Huasteca. pp. 213-134. Mexico: CIESAS.<\/span><\/p>\n

Other<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Forschungsreihen<\/span><\/i><\/i><\/p>\n

2008. \u2018La question pos\u00e9e par les violences urbaines renvoie \u00e0 l’id\u00e9e de la nation, de l’identit\u00e9 nationale et de la citoyennet\u00e9\u2019. \u00c9tudes f\u00e9minines Africaines \u2018Regards sur les discriminations ethniques\u2019, March 2008 (5): 59-67.<\/span><\/p>\n

2006. \u2018Par-del\u00e0 l\u2019ethnicit\u00e9: vers une citoyennet\u00e9 culturelle Latina\u2019. Parcours anthropologiques 2006 <\/i>6: 65-77.<\/span><\/p>\n

2005. \u2018Culture, mondialisation et m\u00e9diatisation: Modernit\u00e9s parall\u00e8les au Mexique\u2019. Parcours anthropologiques 2005 5: 53-58.<\/span><\/p>\n

Rezensionen<\/span><\/p>\n

2009. <\/i>Curare 2009, 34 (3+4). Book review of \u2018\u00d6ko-Kosmologie\u2014Die vielstimmige Widerspr\u00fcchlichkeit Indioamerikas. Ressourcenkrisenmanagement am Beispiel der Nasa (Paez) von Tierradentro, Kolumbien, Josef Drexler\u2019, Ethnologische Studien Bd. 40, Berlin: LIT, 2009<\/span><\/p>\n

2009. <\/i>Polar <\/i>2009, 32(1). Book review of \u2018The Logic of Environmentalism. Anthropology, Ecology, and Postcoloniality, Vassos Argyrou\u2019. NY: Berghahn Book, 2005.<\/span><\/p>\n

2005. <\/i>L’Homme <\/i>2007, 183. \u2018Book review of Dramas of Nationhood. The Politics of Television in Egypt\u2019, Lila Abu-Lughod, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2005.<\/span><\/p>\n

2005. <\/i>American Anthropologist, 2006, 108(3). Book review of \u2018Au bonheur des autres: Anthropologie de l’aide humanitaire\u2019, Laetitia Atlani-Duault, Paris: Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 d’Ethnologie, 2005.<\/span><\/p>\n

2005. <\/i>L’Homme <\/i>2005, 174: 288-290. \u2018Perspectives on Las Am\u00e9ricas. A Reader in Culture, History, and Representation\u2019, edited by Mathew G. Gutmann, Felix, V. Matos Rodr\u00edguez, Lynn Stephen, & Patricia Zavella. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2003.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Conference Presentations<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

2013. \u2018Healthy Eating and Wellbeing among Somali, Cambodian, Mexican, and Sudanese Immigrants and Refugees in the U.S.: A Focus Group Study\u2019. K. Tiedje, M. Wieland, S. Meiers et al. Session: \u2018Non-governmental and community-based organizations\u2019 role in refugee and immigrant health. Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association Boston, MA, November 4.<\/span><\/p>\n

2013. \u2018Fragilit\u00e9s incorpor\u00e9es : Les effets sur la sant\u00e9 de \u201cl\u2019ill\u00e9galit\u00e9\u201d des migrants mexicains aux USA\u2019 S\u00e9minaire du CREA (Centre de Recherche et d\u2019Etudes Anthropologiques), Universit\u00e9 Lumi\u00e8re Lyon 2, Lyon, France, June 12.<\/span><\/p>\n

2013. \u2018Embodied Vulnerabilities: Health Affects of \u201cIllegality\u201d among Mexican Migrants\u2019, Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology, Denver, CO, USA.<\/span><\/p>\n

2013. \u2018Indian Theology in Mexico: Toward A Political Ecology of the Sacred\u2019. Annual Meeting of Political Ecology Society (PESO), held in conjunction with the Society for Applied Anthropology, Denver, CO, USA.<\/span><\/p>\n

2012. \u2018A Qualitative Study Normalizing Decision Aids in Chronic Disease Management\u2019. K. Tiedje, N.Shippee, A. Johnson, et al., Minnesota 16^{th<\/sup> Annual Health Services Research Conference, Minneapolis, MN.<\/span><\/p>\n}

2012. \u2018\u201cI like my piece of pie\u201d: Understanding Patients’ Experiences of Diabetes Disease Management Work Through Qualitative Research\u2019, K. Tiedje<\/em>, N.Shippee, A. Johnson, et al. Minnesota 16^{th<\/sup> Annual Health Services Research Conference, Minneapolis, MN.<\/span><\/p>\n}

2012. \u2018Understanding the Normalization of Decision Aids in Chronic Disease Management: A qualitative study of patients and clinicians in rural primary care practices\u2019. K. Tiedje, N.Shippee, A. Johnson, et al., Second Annual Shared Decision Making Symposium, St. Louis. MI.<\/span><\/p>\n

2011. \u2018What does \u201cculture\u201d have to do with milk? Cultural Models and Early Breastfeeding Beliefs and Practices Among Somali and and Mexican Women in the United States\u2019, K. Tiedje, Lauren Texter, Barbara Yawn, Annual Meeting Deutsche Gesellschaft f\u00fcr V\u00f6lkerkunde, Wien.<\/span><\/p>\n

2009. \u2018Processes of Appropriation, Translation, and Articulation in the Context of Conservation Politics\u2019, for a panel on conservation politics, Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meeting, Santa Fe, NM.<\/span><\/p>\n

2009. \u2018Nahua Science\/Western Science: Climate Change and Agency in the Huasteca\u2019, Plenary Lecture at the ISSRNC Annual Meeting, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.<\/span><\/p>\n

2009. \u2018Nahua Science\/Western Science: Local Perceptions of Climate Change in Mexico\u2019, for a panel on climate change, Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meeting, Santa Fe, NM.<\/span><\/p>\n

2008. \u2018Views and Visions of Personalized Genomics: A Cultural Approach\u2019. Annual Meeting American Society for Bioethics + Humanities Cleveland, OH.<\/span><\/p>\n

2008. \u2018Consumer Genomics at the Clinic\u2019. Bioethics Research Forum, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, MN, USA.<\/span><\/p>\n

2008. \u2018Direct-to-Consumer Predictive Genomics comes to the Clinic: Assessing Hopes and Challenges from an Ongoing Clinical Trial\u2019. Medical Genetics Research Forum, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, MN, USA.<\/span><\/p>\n

2008. \u2018Introduction: Transforming Political Ecology: Articulating Symbolic\/Political\/Technological Representations of Nature\u2019. American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, USA.<\/span><\/p>\n

2007. \u2018Against Environmentalism? A Political Ecology of Conservation in the Eastern Sierra Madre (Mexico)\u2019. Panel: Anthropology, Environmentalism and Justice: Exploring Interconnections, organized by Leslie Sponsel, Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington DC, USA.<\/span><\/p>\n

Poster<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

2013. \u2018Barriers and facilitators to physical activity among immigrants and refugees to a small urban community in Minnesota\u2019, M. Wieland, K. Tiedje, S. Meiers et al., Poster Annual Meeting of the Society of General Internal Medicine.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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