Shana Harris
Biographic Data
| ID | 3601301 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shana Harris |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shana |
| FAMILY NAME | Harris |
| SIGNATURE | HARRIS S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Central Florida |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1532-5057 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Factors Affecting Accessibility of Campus-Based Substance Use Disorder Treatment in a U.S. College Sample
BACKGROUND: College students comprise a substantial proportion of young adults in the United States, the age group with the highest prevalence of substance use disorder (SUD). Although campus-based SUD treatment can support students' health and academic success, these services are often underutilized. Understanding barriers and facilitators to access from both student and staff perspectives is critical. METHODS: We conducted a qualitative study u…
Teaching Anthropology Through Contemporary Crises
Where Woke Goes To Die”: Teaching Through Routine Crisis in Florida
To fight against “wokeness” in higher education, Florida’s conservative-led government passed multiple laws that restrict the ability of faculty to teach and students to learn at the state’s public colleges and universities. This legislation created a learning environment hostile to discussions of race, diversity, gender, and other “controversial” topics. In this article, I summarize some of the political challenges currently facing Florida’s fac…
Harm Reduction Policy Support among Students at Two U.S. Universities
Background: The U.S. is undergoing an opioid overdose crisis. Harm reduction (HR) policies are associated with decreased overdose deaths and incidence of communicable diseases, yet legality of HR policies differs across U.S. jurisdictions. College student perceptions of HR policies are underexplored, even though their voting behavior has increased in recent years. We sought to compare their support of different HR policies and to explore relation…
Psilocybin and the Meaning Response: Exploring the Healing Process in a Retreat Setting in Jamaica
In the past decade, the consumption of psilocybin mushrooms has become a popular therapeutic tool for people looking to deal with mental and emotional health issues. The emerging interest in psilocybin therapy in the global north has led to the development of retreat centers in locations where psilocybin is legal or unregulated. Drawing on ethnographic research at a psilocybin retreat center in Jamaica, this article examines the emotional and som…
At the Intersection of Harm Reduction and Covid-19: The Role of Anthropologists during and Post-Pandemic
Harm reduction is a public health approach that emphasizes reducing the negative effects of drug use rather than eliminating it. It has been practiced for decades; however, the COVID-19 pandemic poses new challenges for people who use drugs (PWUD) and harm reduction providers. In the United States, public health recommendations to curb the pandemic are complicating harm reduction efforts. Harm reduction programs are rethinking how they engage wit…
Possessing Drugs, Possessing Rights: Harm Reduction and Drug Policy Reform in Argentina
Argentina’s national drug law, Law 23.737, has been in effect since 1989. Based on prohibitionist drug policy, this law was intended to severely punish drug traffickers and protect the public from drug use-related health concerns. However, it has failed to achieve these goals, and instead targets people who use drugs (PWUD) and brands them “criminals.” In response, the Argentine government announced its intent to reform Law 23.737 in 2008, sparki…
Care during Covid-19: Drug use, harm reduction, and intimacy during a global pandemic
Narrating the Unspeakable
The use of psychedelic substances has been described as an ‘unspeakable primary experience,’ one that is personal and ultimately indescribable. The ineffable quality of such an experience, however, does not prohibit or invalidate attempts to explain it. The struggle to narrate one’s experience is instead an important endeavor. But, how does narration work if the psychedelic experience is truly unspeakable? What kind of narratives are possible? Wh…
The Effect of Second Reception Center Practices on Refugee Experiences in Sicily
Migration to Italy has drastically increased, with thousands of refugees traveling by sea to Sicily, a major entry point into the European Union. Upon arrival, authorities send refugees to first reception centers and then transfer them to second reception centers operated by local NGOs. While there is abundant scholarship regarding refugee resettlement, there is little anthropological research specifically concerning the conditions of second rece…
The Social Practice of Harm Reduction in Argentina: A "Latin" Kind of Intervention
"Harm reduction" is a public health model that places emphasis on reducing the negative effects of drug use rather than on eliminating drug use or ensuring abstinence. Based on sixteen months of ethnographic research, this article examines how harm reduction in Argentina is both envisioned and observed as a social practice by analyzing how local harm reductionists position their work in relation to "social context." My informants consider this so…
To Be Free and Normal: Addiction, Governance, and the Therapeutics of Buprenorphine
Methadone maintenance has dominated opiate addiction treatment in the United States for decades. Since 2002, opiate addiction has also been treated in general medical settings with a substance called buprenorphine. Based on interviews and participant observation conducted in northern California, this article analyzes how discourses of freedom and normalcy in patient and provider narratives reflect and affect experiences with this treatment modali…
Experiences of Gamma Hydroxybutyrate (GHB) Ingestion: A Focus Group Study
GHB (gamma hydroxybutyrate) is a significant new drug of abuse added to the United States Controlled Substance Act in 2000. The majority of the published literature on GHB consists of clinical case reports, mainly from emergency departments, and a collection of laboratory-based studies, focused mainly on anesthesia. While comments about the various experiences and behaviors of human users are often included in such studies or reports, these aspec…
Association for Feminist Anthropology: Short Takes #13: Feminist First-Timers at the AAA Annual Meeting
To Be Free and Normal: Addiction, Governance, and the Therapeutics of Buprenorphine
Methadone maintenance has dominated opiate addiction treatment in the United States for decades. Since 2002, opiate addiction has also been treated in general medical settings with a substance called buprenorphine. Based on interviews and participant observation conducted in northern California, this article analyzes how discourses of freedom and normalcy in patient and provider narratives reflect and affect experiences with this treatment modali…
Psilocybin and the Meaning Response: Exploring the Healing Process in a Retreat Setting in Jamaica
In the past decade, the consumption of psilocybin mushrooms has become a popular therapeutic tool for people looking to deal with mental and emotional health issues. The emerging interest in psilocybin therapy in the global north has led to the development of retreat centers in locations where psilocybin is legal or unregulated. Drawing on ethnographic research at a psilocybin retreat center in Jamaica, this article examines the emotional and som…
Narrating the Unspeakable
The use of psychedelic substances has been described as an ‘unspeakable primary experience,’ one that is personal and ultimately indescribable. The ineffable quality of such an experience, however, does not prohibit or invalidate attempts to explain it. The struggle to narrate one’s experience is instead an important endeavor. But, how does narration work if the psychedelic experience is truly unspeakable? What kind of narratives are possible? Wh…
Association for Feminist Anthropology: Short Takes #13: Feminist First-Timers at the AAA Annual Meeting
Experiences of Gamma Hydroxybutyrate (GHB) Ingestion: A Focus Group Study
GHB (gamma hydroxybutyrate) is a significant new drug of abuse added to the United States Controlled Substance Act in 2000. The majority of the published literature on GHB consists of clinical case reports, mainly from emergency departments, and a collection of laboratory-based studies, focused mainly on anesthesia. While comments about the various experiences and behaviors of human users are often included in such studies or reports, these aspec…
To Be Free and Normal: Addiction, Governance, and the Therapeutics of Buprenorphine
Methadone maintenance has dominated opiate addiction treatment in the United States for decades. Since 2002, opiate addiction has also been treated in general medical settings with a substance called buprenorphine. Based on interviews and participant observation conducted in northern California, this article analyzes how discourses of freedom and normalcy in patient and provider narratives reflect and affect experiences with this treatment modali…
The Social Practice of Harm Reduction in Argentina: A "Latin" Kind of Intervention
"Harm reduction" is a public health model that places emphasis on reducing the negative effects of drug use rather than on eliminating drug use or ensuring abstinence. Based on sixteen months of ethnographic research, this article examines how harm reduction in Argentina is both envisioned and observed as a social practice by analyzing how local harm reductionists position their work in relation to "social context." My informants consider this so…
The Effect of Second Reception Center Practices on Refugee Experiences in Sicily
Migration to Italy has drastically increased, with thousands of refugees traveling by sea to Sicily, a major entry point into the European Union. Upon arrival, authorities send refugees to first reception centers and then transfer them to second reception centers operated by local NGOs. While there is abundant scholarship regarding refugee resettlement, there is little anthropological research specifically concerning the conditions of second rece…
Care during Covid-19: Drug use, harm reduction, and intimacy during a global pandemic
Narrating the Unspeakable
The use of psychedelic substances has been described as an ‘unspeakable primary experience,’ one that is personal and ultimately indescribable. The ineffable quality of such an experience, however, does not prohibit or invalidate attempts to explain it. The struggle to narrate one’s experience is instead an important endeavor. But, how does narration work if the psychedelic experience is truly unspeakable? What kind of narratives are possible? Wh…
At the Intersection of Harm Reduction and Covid-19: The Role of Anthropologists during and Post-Pandemic
Harm reduction is a public health approach that emphasizes reducing the negative effects of drug use rather than eliminating it. It has been practiced for decades; however, the COVID-19 pandemic poses new challenges for people who use drugs (PWUD) and harm reduction providers. In the United States, public health recommendations to curb the pandemic are complicating harm reduction efforts. Harm reduction programs are rethinking how they engage wit…
Possessing Drugs, Possessing Rights: Harm Reduction and Drug Policy Reform in Argentina
Argentina’s national drug law, Law 23.737, has been in effect since 1989. Based on prohibitionist drug policy, this law was intended to severely punish drug traffickers and protect the public from drug use-related health concerns. However, it has failed to achieve these goals, and instead targets people who use drugs (PWUD) and brands them “criminals.” In response, the Argentine government announced its intent to reform Law 23.737 in 2008, sparki…
Harm Reduction Policy Support among Students at Two U.S. Universities
Background: The U.S. is undergoing an opioid overdose crisis. Harm reduction (HR) policies are associated with decreased overdose deaths and incidence of communicable diseases, yet legality of HR policies differs across U.S. jurisdictions. College student perceptions of HR policies are underexplored, even though their voting behavior has increased in recent years. We sought to compare their support of different HR policies and to explore relation…
Psilocybin and the Meaning Response: Exploring the Healing Process in a Retreat Setting in Jamaica
In the past decade, the consumption of psilocybin mushrooms has become a popular therapeutic tool for people looking to deal with mental and emotional health issues. The emerging interest in psilocybin therapy in the global north has led to the development of retreat centers in locations where psilocybin is legal or unregulated. Drawing on ethnographic research at a psilocybin retreat center in Jamaica, this article examines the emotional and som…
Teaching Anthropology Through Contemporary Crises
Where Woke Goes To Die”: Teaching Through Routine Crisis in Florida
To fight against “wokeness” in higher education, Florida’s conservative-led government passed multiple laws that restrict the ability of faculty to teach and students to learn at the state’s public colleges and universities. This legislation created a learning environment hostile to discussions of race, diversity, gender, and other “controversial” topics. In this article, I summarize some of the political challenges currently facing Florida’s fac…
Factors Affecting Accessibility of Campus-Based Substance Use Disorder Treatment in a U.S. College Sample
BACKGROUND: College students comprise a substantial proportion of young adults in the United States, the age group with the highest prevalence of substance use disorder (SUD). Although campus-based SUD treatment can support students' health and academic success, these services are often underutilized. Understanding barriers and facilitators to access from both student and staff perspectives is critical. METHODS: We conducted a qualitative study u…
Sociology (9 works) · Medicine (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Psychiatry (6 works) · Harm (5 works) · Harm reduction (5 works) · HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk (5 works) · Opioid Use Disorder Treatment (5 works) · Anthropology (4 works)