Rennie Negron
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 85665 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Rennie Negron |
| NOMBRES | Rennie |
| APELLIDO | Negron |
| FIRMA | NEGRON R |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Massachusetts Boston |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2094-9833 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 30 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 29 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 30 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2012 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Health as the embodiment of climate inequity
Climate change poses uneven health risks across racially and ethnically diverse communities. This qualitative study examined how Asian American, Black, Latinx, and Native American residents of Greater Boston understood climate-related health risks and how those experiences reflected broader structural inequities. We analyzed eight race- and community-stratified focus groups conducted in English, Spanish, and Cantonese. Guided by theories of embod…
Teaching and Learning Participatory Methods in Anthropology
Participatory methods in cultural anthropology continue to gain popularity. These methods respect community values and promote empowerment and co-creation, enhancing the ethicality and relevance of research findings. Despite their advantages, formal training in participatory methods is limited in anthropology programs, often leaving anthropologists to learn through trial and error with community partners. This article provides an overview of comm…
Social Networks and Cultural Factors Associated With Tobacco Use Among Arab Americans
Introduction: Tobacco use is disproportionately high among Arab Americans (AAs), with hookah normalized within social networks (SNs). Gaps remain in understanding how SNs, cultural norms, and migration-related identity shape tobacco use. This study examined how cultural norms, religion, and SNs are associated with tobacco use among AA adults. Methods: A cross-sectional survey of 178 Massachusetts-based AA adults assessed tobacco use, cultural att…
Disaster Schooling Experiences and Emergent Crises
This paper examines the disaster schooling experiences of Puerto Rican educators, families, and students across multiple crises following Hurricane Maria. Drawing on 11 months of ethnographic research, we analyze how schooling unfolded across disasters and how long‐standing vulnerabilities and structural inequalities shaped responses. Findings reveal the significant role of schools and educators in supporting children and underscore the need for …
Comparing methods for research mentorship
Recent research finds that a classic approach to research mentorship – the Socratic method – where faculty foster learning by posing probing questions, can also create gender and racial disparities in learning gains. A newer research mentorship method, the Critical Response Process (CRP), may address these shortcomings by giving students control over the flow and quality of feedback they receive. We test and compare the efficacy of these two meth…
Value Propositions Provide a Roadmap for Teaching Doctoral Students How to Develop Research Proposals
Writing winning proposals for funding research is an essential skill for doctoral students in the social sciences. Still, most anthropology programs lack formal instruction on this, relying instead on informal mentorship. To advance this, we evaluated the Value Proposition framework in teaching anthropology Ph.D. students to write proposals. Our findings from the feedback from students and faculty in the NSF-funded Cultural Anthropology Methods P…
Collaboration in Adaptation Planning
Collaboration among stakeholders is widely recognized as the cornerstone of developing innovative forms of adaptive governance for climate change planning. This paper examines the nature of collaboration among adaptation stakeholders in Metro-Boston through a stakeholder mapping and engagement project. It analyzes how collaboration shapes clusters of stakeholder power, which, in turn, influence conditions of and preconditions for innovation in ad…
Critical approaches to climate-induced migration research and solutions
The New NSF Camp Feedback Method for Research Mentorship
The National Science Foundation's Cultural Anthropology Methods Program (CAMP) aims to cultivate students' ability to craft competitive research proposals. Over three years of CAMP, we tested and iterated different feedback models: the Socratic method, the Value Proposition approach, and the Critical Response Process (CRP). We ultimately designed the NSF CAMP Feedback Method that integrates successful elements from these three models for the pres…
Mentorship to Support Mental Health for Students in Applied Anthropology
Building an Inclusive Big Tent for Methods
Creating a Community of Practice has been central to the vision of the NSF Cultural Anthropology Methods Program (CAMP). The CAMP Community of Practice explores the practices of doing research and teaching research methods, drawing on the great diversity of methods used by anthropologists who collect and analyze cultural data. The methodological diversity now represented in CAMP reflects exciting developments in our discipline, but it also poses …
The Benefits of Using Cultural Domain Analysis in Applied Anthropology
Cultural domain analysis (CDA) is a suite of methods and analytical techniques that allow researchers to rapidly and reliably understand the ways in which people conceptualize their world. Consisting of various approaches, including free lists, pile sorts, and related interview techniques, CDA is an effective means of systematically identifying shared knowledge. This article briefly reviews the strengths of this approach, and highlights examples …
Facilitating Exchanges Between Applied & Academic Anthropologists
Project AquiLá
There are advantages in employing a community engaged transdisciplinary team-based approach to the study of transnationalism, culture and health
Ethnographic Methods Training Norms and Practices and the Future of American Anthropology
American Anthropology is engaged in significant self-reckonings that call for big changes to how anthropology is practiced. These include (1) recognizing and taking seriously the demands to decolonize the ways research is done; (2) addressing precarious employment in academic anthropology; and (3) creating a discipline better positioned to respond to urgent societal needs. A central role for ethnographic methods training is a thread that runs thr…
Innovation in the Study of Superdiversity
Empirically, superdiversity, which has to do with the social organization of difference in complex urban settings, has characteristics that challenge ethnographic observation and interviewing research methods that have been traditionally employed in urban, migration, and transnational studies. Instead, Vertovec (2020), Blommaert (2015) and others challenge scholars to think about superdiversity in terms of complexity. How do we translate complexi…
Teaching Ethnographic Methods
Ethnography is a core methodology in anthropology and other disciplines. Yet, there is currently no scholarly consensus on how to teach ethnographic methods—or even what methods belong in the ethnographic toolkit. We report on a systematic analysis of syllabi to gauge how ethnographic methods are taught in the United States. We analyze 107 methods syllabi from a nationally elicited sample of university faculty who teach ethnography. Systematic co…
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Using Trellis software to enhance high-quality large-scale network data collection in the field
Trellis is a mobile platform created by the Human Nature Lab at the Yale Institute for Network Science to collect high-quality, location-aware, off-line/online, multi-lingual, multi-relational social network and behavior data in hard-to-reach communities. Respondents use Trellis to identify their social contacts by name and photograph, a procedure especially useful in low-literacy populations or in contexts where names may be similar or confusing…
Biocultural Strategies for Measuring Psychosocial Stress Outcomes in Field-based Research
The goal of assessing psychosocial stress as a process and outcome in naturalistic (i.e., field) settings is applicable across the social, biological, and health sciences. Meaningful measurement of biology-in-context is, however, far from simple or straightforward. In this brief methods review, we introduce theoretical framings, methodological conventions, and ethical concerns around field-collection of markers of psychosocial stress that have em…
There You Enjoy Life, Here You Work’
Structural inequalities in the U.S. work environment place most immigrants in low paying, high-risk jobs. Understanding how work experiences and influence the health of different immigrant populations is essential to address disparities. This article explores how Brazilian and Dominican immigrants feel about their experiences working in the U.S. and how the relationship between work and culture might impact their health. In partnership with the D…
Ethnic identification and New York City’s intra-Latina/o hierarchy
Life after Stroke in an Urban Minority Population
Stroke is a leading cause of disability in the United States and disproportionately affects minority populations. We sought to explore the quality of life in urban, minority stroke survivors through their own photos and narratives. Using the Photovoice method, seventeen stroke survivors were instructed to take pictures reflecting their experience living with and recovering from stroke. Key photographs were discussed in detail; participants brains…
Enhancing organizational capacity to provide cancer control programs among Latino churches
BACKGROUND: Faith-based organizations (FBOs) have been successful in delivering health promotion programs for African Americans, though few studies have been conducted among Latinos. Even fewer have focused on organizational change, which is required to sustain community-based initiatives. We hypothesized that FBOs serving Latinos would be more likely to offer evidence-based strategies (EBS) for cancer control after receiving a capacity enhanceme…
The effect of resource competition on Blacks’ and Asians’ social distance using a virtual world methodology
Studies of intergroup social distance have focused primarily on relations between dominant and minority groups, rather than between minority groups. In this study, various dimensions of resource competition relevant to group threat theory were contrasted. Black ( n = 39), Asian ( n = 53), and White ( n = 118) participants developed self-resembling avatars and interacted in a virtual world in which various types of resource competition contexts we…
The effect of resource competition on Blacks’ and Asians’ social distance using a virtual world methodology
Studies of intergroup social distance have focused primarily on relations between dominant and minority groups, rather than between minority groups. In this study, various dimensions of resource competition relevant to group threat theory were contrasted. Black ( n = 39), Asian ( n = 53), and White ( n = 118) participants developed self-resembling avatars and interacted in a virtual world in which various types of resource competition contexts we…
Biocultural Strategies for Measuring Psychosocial Stress Outcomes in Field-based Research
The goal of assessing psychosocial stress as a process and outcome in naturalistic (i.e., field) settings is applicable across the social, biological, and health sciences. Meaningful measurement of biology-in-context is, however, far from simple or straightforward. In this brief methods review, we introduce theoretical framings, methodological conventions, and ethical concerns around field-collection of markers of psychosocial stress that have em…
Diversity, Multiethnicity, and Latino Social Networks
Given the steady increase of ethnic diversity in the US, greater numbers of people develop the ability to negotiate ethnic boundaries and form multiple ethnic identifications. This paper explores the relationship between intra-ethnic and cross-ethnic relationships—defined in terms of social networks—and patterns of ethnic self-identification among New York City (NYC) Latinos. Drawing on theory and methods from the field of social network analysis…
New York City's Latino ethnolinguistic repertoire and the negotiation of latinidad in conversation
Latino collective politics has received greater attention from scholars and policy analysts than the micro-processes of everyday interaction among U.S. Latinos - the stuff with which collective efforts are constructed. In this article, I argue that latinidad - a sense of shared Latino identity - is best understood by taking into account the negotiations of collective identities in everyday, situated social practices. I ask: how do Latinos invoke …
Audio Recording Everyday Talk
This article covers a number of strategies for audio recording everyday, naturally occurring interactions. Drawing on fieldwork where the author observed and recorded eleven key informants in New York City, the author provides a guide applicable to a number of research situations, but especially relevant to studies that require continuous observations-from unobtrusive to participant-across various social contexts. The author provides practical su…
Ethnic identification and New York City’s intra-Latina/o hierarchy
Facilitating Exchanges Between Applied & Academic Anthropologists
Social Support During the Postpartum Period
Audio Recording Everyday Talk
This article covers a number of strategies for audio recording everyday, naturally occurring interactions. Drawing on fieldwork where the author observed and recorded eleven key informants in New York City, the author provides a guide applicable to a number of research situations, but especially relevant to studies that require continuous observations-from unobtrusive to participant-across various social contexts. The author provides practical su…
Diversity, Multiethnicity, and Latino Social Networks
Given the steady increase of ethnic diversity in the US, greater numbers of people develop the ability to negotiate ethnic boundaries and form multiple ethnic identifications. This paper explores the relationship between intra-ethnic and cross-ethnic relationships—defined in terms of social networks—and patterns of ethnic self-identification among New York City (NYC) Latinos. Drawing on theory and methods from the field of social network analysis…
Leadership networks in Catholic parishes
New York City's Latino ethnolinguistic repertoire and the negotiation of latinidad in conversation
Latino collective politics has received greater attention from scholars and policy analysts than the micro-processes of everyday interaction among U.S. Latinos - the stuff with which collective efforts are constructed. In this article, I argue that latinidad - a sense of shared Latino identity - is best understood by taking into account the negotiations of collective identities in everyday, situated social practices. I ask: how do Latinos invoke …
Enhancing organizational capacity to provide cancer control programs among Latino churches
BACKGROUND: Faith-based organizations (FBOs) have been successful in delivering health promotion programs for African Americans, though few studies have been conducted among Latinos. Even fewer have focused on organizational change, which is required to sustain community-based initiatives. We hypothesized that FBOs serving Latinos would be more likely to offer evidence-based strategies (EBS) for cancer control after receiving a capacity enhanceme…
The effect of resource competition on Blacks’ and Asians’ social distance using a virtual world methodology
Studies of intergroup social distance have focused primarily on relations between dominant and minority groups, rather than between minority groups. In this study, various dimensions of resource competition relevant to group threat theory were contrasted. Black ( n = 39), Asian ( n = 53), and White ( n = 118) participants developed self-resembling avatars and interacted in a virtual world in which various types of resource competition contexts we…
Life after Stroke in an Urban Minority Population
Stroke is a leading cause of disability in the United States and disproportionately affects minority populations. We sought to explore the quality of life in urban, minority stroke survivors through their own photos and narratives. Using the Photovoice method, seventeen stroke survivors were instructed to take pictures reflecting their experience living with and recovering from stroke. Key photographs were discussed in detail; participants brains…
Ethnic identification and New York City’s intra-Latina/o hierarchy
There You Enjoy Life, Here You Work’
Structural inequalities in the U.S. work environment place most immigrants in low paying, high-risk jobs. Understanding how work experiences and influence the health of different immigrant populations is essential to address disparities. This article explores how Brazilian and Dominican immigrants feel about their experiences working in the U.S. and how the relationship between work and culture might impact their health. In partnership with the D…
Using Trellis software to enhance high-quality large-scale network data collection in the field
Trellis is a mobile platform created by the Human Nature Lab at the Yale Institute for Network Science to collect high-quality, location-aware, off-line/online, multi-lingual, multi-relational social network and behavior data in hard-to-reach communities. Respondents use Trellis to identify their social contacts by name and photograph, a procedure especially useful in low-literacy populations or in contexts where names may be similar or confusing…
Biocultural Strategies for Measuring Psychosocial Stress Outcomes in Field-based Research
The goal of assessing psychosocial stress as a process and outcome in naturalistic (i.e., field) settings is applicable across the social, biological, and health sciences. Meaningful measurement of biology-in-context is, however, far from simple or straightforward. In this brief methods review, we introduce theoretical framings, methodological conventions, and ethical concerns around field-collection of markers of psychosocial stress that have em…
Innovation in the Study of Superdiversity
Empirically, superdiversity, which has to do with the social organization of difference in complex urban settings, has characteristics that challenge ethnographic observation and interviewing research methods that have been traditionally employed in urban, migration, and transnational studies. Instead, Vertovec (2020), Blommaert (2015) and others challenge scholars to think about superdiversity in terms of complexity. How do we translate complexi…
Teaching Ethnographic Methods
Ethnography is a core methodology in anthropology and other disciplines. Yet, there is currently no scholarly consensus on how to teach ethnographic methods—or even what methods belong in the ethnographic toolkit. We report on a systematic analysis of syllabi to gauge how ethnographic methods are taught in the United States. We analyze 107 methods syllabi from a nationally elicited sample of university faculty who teach ethnography. Systematic co…
Reprint of
Project AquiLá
There are advantages in employing a community engaged transdisciplinary team-based approach to the study of transnationalism, culture and health
Ethnographic Methods Training Norms and Practices and the Future of American Anthropology
American Anthropology is engaged in significant self-reckonings that call for big changes to how anthropology is practiced. These include (1) recognizing and taking seriously the demands to decolonize the ways research is done; (2) addressing precarious employment in academic anthropology; and (3) creating a discipline better positioned to respond to urgent societal needs. A central role for ethnographic methods training is a thread that runs thr…
The New NSF Camp Feedback Method for Research Mentorship
The National Science Foundation's Cultural Anthropology Methods Program (CAMP) aims to cultivate students' ability to craft competitive research proposals. Over three years of CAMP, we tested and iterated different feedback models: the Socratic method, the Value Proposition approach, and the Critical Response Process (CRP). We ultimately designed the NSF CAMP Feedback Method that integrates successful elements from these three models for the pres…
Mentorship to Support Mental Health for Students in Applied Anthropology
Building an Inclusive Big Tent for Methods
Creating a Community of Practice has been central to the vision of the NSF Cultural Anthropology Methods Program (CAMP). The CAMP Community of Practice explores the practices of doing research and teaching research methods, drawing on the great diversity of methods used by anthropologists who collect and analyze cultural data. The methodological diversity now represented in CAMP reflects exciting developments in our discipline, but it also poses …
The Benefits of Using Cultural Domain Analysis in Applied Anthropology
Cultural domain analysis (CDA) is a suite of methods and analytical techniques that allow researchers to rapidly and reliably understand the ways in which people conceptualize their world. Consisting of various approaches, including free lists, pile sorts, and related interview techniques, CDA is an effective means of systematically identifying shared knowledge. This article briefly reviews the strengths of this approach, and highlights examples …
Facilitating Exchanges Between Applied & Academic Anthropologists
Comparing methods for research mentorship
Recent research finds that a classic approach to research mentorship – the Socratic method – where faculty foster learning by posing probing questions, can also create gender and racial disparities in learning gains. A newer research mentorship method, the Critical Response Process (CRP), may address these shortcomings by giving students control over the flow and quality of feedback they receive. We test and compare the efficacy of these two meth…
Value Propositions Provide a Roadmap for Teaching Doctoral Students How to Develop Research Proposals
Writing winning proposals for funding research is an essential skill for doctoral students in the social sciences. Still, most anthropology programs lack formal instruction on this, relying instead on informal mentorship. To advance this, we evaluated the Value Proposition framework in teaching anthropology Ph.D. students to write proposals. Our findings from the feedback from students and faculty in the NSF-funded Cultural Anthropology Methods P…
Collaboration in Adaptation Planning
Collaboration among stakeholders is widely recognized as the cornerstone of developing innovative forms of adaptive governance for climate change planning. This paper examines the nature of collaboration among adaptation stakeholders in Metro-Boston through a stakeholder mapping and engagement project. It analyzes how collaboration shapes clusters of stakeholder power, which, in turn, influence conditions of and preconditions for innovation in ad…
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