Mariana Ferreira
Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of California, San Francisco/University of California, Berkeley ,1996
Office: SCI 383
Office Hours: Tuesday/Thursday 12:30–2:00pm, or by appointment
Phone: (415) 405–2467, Email: marianaf@sfsu.edu
Interests: Cultural Anthropology, Ethnomathematics, Human Rights, Indigenous Peoples in North and South America, Medical Anthropology
Research Interests:
Topical: Diabetes mellitus; breast cancer; suicide; social origins of illness; health equity; human rights; violence; poverty; neuroscience of emotions; Indigenous youth in North & South America; International law and Indigenous Peoples’ rights; the anthropology of children; bilingual education; multicultural mathematics; community-based participatory research; video-production; food security; research ethics, the history of science; art and social activism; radical theater.
Ethnographic: Central and Southern Brazil; the Amazon; California; South India.
Current Academic Positions:
Jan. 2009 to date, Associate Faculty, Center for Teaching and Faculty
Development, SFSU
Aug. 2007 to date, Associate Professor, Dept. Anthropology, SFSU
Aug. 2007 to date, Outreach Coordinator, Bio-Behavioral Research Center,
SFSU
June 2006 to date, Outreach Coordinator, REDUCE Cancer Disparities
Program, SFSU-UCSF
Sept. 2005 to date, Affiliated Faculty, Public Research Institute, SFSU
Jan. 2005 to date, Global Peace, Human Rights & Justice Studies Program
Co-Director, SFSU
Jan. 2005 to date, Global Peace, Human Rights & Justice Studies Cluster
Coordinator, SFSU
Recent Grants and Awards:
Jan. 2009, Bay Area Jefferson Award for Public Service; organization of five
SFSU Annual Human Rights Summits (2004-2008). SFSU Institute for Community and Civic Engagement (ICCE)
Jan. 2009, U56 Reduce Cancer Disparities Mini-Grant, to expand the RIGHT
TO KNOW project at SFSU <http://righttoknow.sfsu.edu>
Dec. 2008 to 2010, Research Infrastructure for Minority Institutions (RIMI)
Award to develop school Interventions to Prevent Diabetes and Obesity at the Klamath River Early College of the Redwoods, Yurok Indian Reservation, CA. SFSU-PRI; National Center for Minority Health and Health Disparities.
July 2008, CSU Mini-grant, to train American Indian students in video-
production at The Klamath River Early College of the Redwoods, Yurok Indian Reservation, CA.
Jan 2008, U56 Reduce Cancer Disparities Mini-Grant, to create the RIGHT
TO KNOW project at SFSU <http://righttoknow.sfsu.edu>
Recent Books, Edited Volumes
((forthcoming) Acting Human Rights. Radical Theater and Liberation
Medicine. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Human Rights Center
(forthcoming), Co-Editor, with N. Embretson, Paradigm Wars. Ten short
plays on Indigenous Peoples and Globalization. San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books.
(in print ), The Mathematics of Indigenous Peoples in the Brazilian Amazon.
Sense Publishers, UK. Series: New Directions in Science and Mathematics Education
2008, Editor, Human Rights in Global Light. Selected papers, poems, and
prayers, SFSU Annual Human Rights Summit 2004-2007. Treganza Anthropology Museum Papers. Special Double Issue 2007-2008, Numbers 24 & 25.
2006, Co-Editor, with G. Lang. Indigenous Peoples and Diabetes.
Community Empowerment and Wellness. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press.
Recent Papers and Plays Presented
(forthcoming), Diabetes Mellitus and Food Security: Liberation Medicine and
Indigenous Peoples’ Rights. School of Public Health, UCB. Human Rights and Public Health Lecture Series, April 6, 2009.
(forthcoming), Salmon People Community-Based Participatory Research
(CBPR) in Yurok Country, Northern California. Dept. of Health Education, SFSU, May 5, 2009.
2009, Co-Author, with N. Embretson. RICEPROCITY. Gift Economy and
Rice Exchange to End World Hunger.International Conference on Climate Change, Pune, India. Jan 9-11, 2009
2008, Of Singing Shells, Pills, and Coins: Hitting the Diabetes Jackpot in
Indian Country, Northern California. One-Act play stage-read at the 107th AAA Annual Meeting. Invited Presidential Session: Diabetes and Community Empowerment. San Francisco, CA, Nov. 2008.
2008, Co-author, with E. Langman. May Your Body Lay Naked on Mother
Earth.A Play on Repatriation and Indigenous Peoples’ Rights. One-Act play stage-read at the 107th Annual Meeting on the Panel Radical Theater as Cultural Intervention: Exploring Art and Politics in anthropology’s center-stage (org. and chaired by M. Ferreira). San Francisco, CA, Nov. 19, 2008.
2008-2007, Ironhawk. A Play on Capital Punishment and the Genocide of
American Indians. One-Act play stage-read at the 5th Annual Human Rights Summit at SFSU. May 3, 2008. Also stage-read at the 106th AAA Annual Meeting – Difference, (In)equality & Justice. Invited Presidential Session “Anthropologists in the Global Arena: Dialogues for Change.” Washington DC Nov 29, 2007.
Websites
Human Rights at SFSU <http://humanrights.sfsu.edu>
Right to Know at SFSU <http://righttoknow.sfsu.edu>
