People

Heide Casta帽eda

Professor and Associate Chair

Dr. Heide Casta帽eda

contact

Office: SOC 123
Email: hcastaneda@usf.edu

Education

  • Ph.D., Anthropology, University of Arizona
  • MPH, Public Health, University of Texas
  • MA, Anthropology, University of Texas at San Antonio

Teaching

Borders and Migration, Issues in Migrant Health, Anthropological Theory Today, Anthropology of Health Policy, Theory in Medical Anthropology, Foundations of Applied Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Human Rights and Transitional Justice, Health & Medical Systems, Global Health from an Anthropological Perspective

Research

Critical border studies, legal anthropology, medical anthropology, migration, migrant health, citizenship, US/Mexico border, Mexico, Germany, Morocco

Current Projects

  • "Migrant Communities: Effects of Demographic Characteristics on Placemaking under Uncertain Timelines" (funded by the National Science Foundation Award # 2149059): Examines shifts in spaces of 鈥渢ransit鈥� to settlement for sub-Saharan Africans in Morocco, focused on forced immobility, legal status precarity, gendered geographies of power, and local processes of racialization (with Tara Deubel)
  • "Mixed-Status Families and Citizenship in the Contemporary Migration Experience" (funded by the National Science Foundation Award # 1535664 & the Wenner-Gren Foundation): Focuses on mixed-status families living along the US/Mexico border
  • "Legal Status and the Social and Emotional Well-Being of Young Adult Immigrants" (funded by the National Science Foundation Award # 1729396): examines social and emotional well-being of undocumented youth and DACA recipients in Florida (with Elizabeth Aranda and Elizabeth Vaquera)
  • "Indigenous Mobilities: Amazigh Im/migrants in the United States"

Recent Publications

Books

  • Amazigh in America: Remaking North African Indigeneity in the Diaspora. New York University Press, forthcoming.
  • . Routledge, 2023. 
  • . Stanford University Press, 2019.
  • . Mulligan, Jessica & Casta帽eda, Heide, editors. NYU Press, 2018.

Select Articles & Chapters

  • Casta帽eda, Heide and Amine Bit (2024) . Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies..
  • Casta帽eda, Heide (2023) . Tamazgha Studies Journal 1(1): 45-54.
  • Casta帽eda, Heide, Melanie Escue, and Elizabeth Aranda (2023) ". Journal of Cultural Geography.
  • Lucas, William, Casta帽eda, Heide and Melo, Milena A. (2023) . Human Organization 82(2): 131-141.
  • Lopez, William D, and Heide Casta帽eda (2022) . Social Science & Medicine 307: 115180.

  • Casta帽eda, Heide (2022) . In A Companion to Medical Anthropology, Second Edition, Wiley.

  • Smith, Sarah A. and Casta帽eda, Heide (2021) . PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review.
  • Logan, Ryan, Melo, Milena A, and Casta帽eda, Heide (2021) . Medical Anthropology 40(7): 639-652.
  • Casta帽eda, Heide and Melo, Milena A. (2019) . Law & Policy 41(1): 80-102.
  • Holmes, Seth and Casta帽eda, Heide (2016) . American Ethnologist 43(1): 12-24.
  • Casta帽eda, Heide, Holmes, Seth M., Madrigal, Daniel S., Young, Maria-Elena DeTrinidad, Beyerle, Naomi, and Quesada, James (2015) . Annual Review of Public Health 36:375-392.

Graduate Students

Rachel Kingsley, Amanda Leppert Gomes, Laura Parada Perla, Mahir Rahman, and Augusta Herman