Amber Wutich
CURRICULUM VITAE
EMPLOYMENT
Professor of Anthropology, School of Human Evolution & Social Change, Arizona State University
Associate Professor of Anthropology, 2012-2017; Assistant Professor of Anthropology, 2007-2012
Additional Appointments & Affiliations:
Director, ASU Center for Global Health
Member, ASU Global Institute of Sustainability; Decision Center for a Desert City; Center for
Biodiversity Outcomes; Center for Evolutionary Medicine; Institute for Social Science Research
EDUCATION
Postdoctoral Researcher, 2006-2007
National Science Foundation Central Arizona-Phoenix Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER)
National Science Foundation Decision Center for a Desert City (DCDC)
Global Institute of Sustainability, Arizona State University
Doctor of Philosophy, Cultural Anthropology, May 2006
University of Florida, Dissertation: “The Effects of Water Scarcity on Sociability and Reciprocity
in Cochabamba, Bolivia”, Chair: Dr. H. Russell Bernard
Fulbright Scholar, Bolivia, 2004-2005
Bachelor of Arts (Highest Honors), May 2000
Majors in Anthropology and Chinese Language & Literature, University of Florida
Academic year (1998-1999) at Shaanxi Teacher’s University, Xi’an, China
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Ecological, Economic and Biocultural Anthropology; Institutions; Environmental Justice; Water and
Food Insecurity; Global Mental Health; Cross-cultural Research; Latin America; Field Methods
AWARDS AND RECOGNITION
Excellence in Innovation Award, SHESC, ASU, 2017
Fellow, PLuS Alliance (Phoenix, London, Sydney) University Partnership, 2016-2019
Carnegie CASE Arizona Professor of the Year, 2013-2014
Parents Association Professor of the Year, Nominee (competitively selected), ASU, 2013
Faculty Achievement Award for Excellence in Classroom Performance, ASU, 2011-2012
Zebulon Pearce Distinguished Teaching Award, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, ASU, 2011
Director’s Award for Innovation in Undergraduate Teaching, SHESC, ASU, 2011
Honorary Marshal for the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, ASU Commencement Ceremony, 2011
Fellow, Society for Applied Anthropology, 2010
“Apple Polisher” Faculty Appreciation Award, ASU Devils’ Advocates Student Organization, 2009
Paul and Polly Doughty Award for Peace and Development Studies, University of Florida, 2003
Alice Zirger Award for East Asian Studies, University of Florida, 1998
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SECTION 1: RESEARCH
PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
Co-author mentorship: ** undergraduate student; * graduate student; † postdoctoral researcher
BOOKS
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Bernard, H.R., A. Wutich, and G. Ryan. (2016) Analyzing Qualitative Data: Systematic
approaches. Second Edition. SAGE Publications.
JOURNAL ARTICLES
Accepted & in press
Wutich, A., M. Beresford*, and C. Carvajal*. Ayni real and imagined: Reciprocity, indigenous
institutions, and development discourse in contemporary Bolivia. Journal of Latin American and
Caribbean Anthropology. Accepted 3/2017.
Du Bray*, M., A. Wutich, K. Larson, D. White, A. Brewis. Emotion, Coping, and Climate
Change in Island Nations: Implications for Environmental Justice. Environmental Justice.
Accepted 2/2017.
DeMyers*, C., C. Warpinksi**, A. Wutich. Urban Water Insecurity: A Case Study of
Homelessness in Phoenix, Arizona, U.S.A. Environmental Justice. Accepted 5/2017.
2017
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Jepson, W., A. Wutich, G. Boateng, S. Collins, S. Young. Progress in Household Water
Insecurity Metrics: A Cross-Disciplinary Approach. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water. 4(3).
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/wat2.1214
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Du Bray*, M., A. Wutich, A. Brewis. (2017) Hope and Fear: Gendered emotional geographies of
climate change in three vulnerable US communities. Weather, Climate, and Society.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/WCAS-D-16-0077.1
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Sullivan†, A., D. White, K. Larson, A. Wutich. Towards water sensitive cities in the Colorado
River Basin: A comparative historical analysis to inform future urban water sustainability
transitions. Sustainability. 9 (761). doi:10.3390/su9050761.
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Trainer†, S., A. Wutich, A. Brewis. (2017) Eating in the Panoptican: Surveillance before and
after bariatric surgery. Medical Anthropology. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01459740.2017.1298595
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Trainer†, S., A. Brewis, and A. Wutich. (2017) Not ‘taking the easy way out’: Reframing
bariatric surgery from low-effort weight loss to hard work. Anthropology and Medicine.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13648470.2016.1249339
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Kurtz*, L., S. Trainer†, M. Beresford*, A. Wutich, and A. Brewis. Blogs as Elusive Ethnographic
Texts: Methodological and Ethical Challenges in Qualitative Online Research. International
Journal of Qualitative Methods. 16(1). https://doi.org/10.1177/1609406917705796.
2016
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Wutich, A., M. Beresford*, C. Carvajal*. (2016) Can informal water vendors deliver on the
promise of a human right to water? Findings from squatter settlements in Cochabamba, Bolivia.
World Development 79:14-24.
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Rice†, J., A. Wutich, D. White, P. Westerhoff. Comparing Actual De Facto Wastewater Reuse
and its Public Acceptability: A Three City Case Study. Sustainable Cities and Society.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2016.06.007
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Hagaman*, A. and A. Wutich. (2016) How many interviews are enough to identify metathemes
in multi-sited and cross-cultural research? Another perspective on Guest, Bunce, and Johnson’s
(2006) landmark study. Field Methods. doi: 10.1177/1525822X16640447
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Larson, K., R. Stotts*, A. Wutich, D. White, A. Brewis. (2016) Cross-cultural Perceptions of
Water Risks and Solutions. Society & Natural Resources. 29(9): 1049-1064.
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Palta†, M., M. du Bray*, R. Stotts*, A. Wolf**, and A. Wutich. (2016) Ecosystem services and
disservices for vulnerable populations: Findings from urban waterways and wetlands in an
American desert city. Human Ecology. DOI 10.1007/s10745-016-9843-8
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Trainer†, S., A. Brewis, A. Wutich, L. Kurtz*, M. Niesluchowski**. (2016) The Fat Self in
Virtual Communities: Success and Failure in Weight-Loss Blogging. Current Anthropology.
57(4): online.
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Brewis, A., S. Trainer†, S.Y. Han†, A. Wutich. (2016) Publicly Misfitting: The Everyday
Production and Reinforcement of the Felt Stigma of Extreme Weight. Medical Anthropology
Quarterly. doi: 10.1111/maq.12309
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Han†, S.Y., A. Brewis, A. Wutich. (2016) Body Image Mediates the Depressive Effects of
Postpartum Weight Gain, particularly for Women already Obese. BMC Medicine. 16: 664.
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Raves†, D., A. Brewis, S. Trainer†, S.Y. Han†, A. Wutich. (2016) Bariatric surgery patients’
experience of weight-related stigma in healthcare settings affects post-surgery dietary adherence.
Frontiers in Psychology. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01497
2015
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Wutich, A. and M. Beresford*. (2015) Community Development in ‘Post-Neoliberal Bolivia’:
Decolonization or Alternative Modernizations? Community Development Journal. doi:
10.1093/cdj/bsv049.
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Brewis, A. and A. Wutich. (2015) A World of Suffering? Fat-stigma in the global contexts of the
obesity epidemic. Annals of Anthropological Practice. 38(2): 269-283. Selected in 2016 for
AAA’s Open Anthropology collection featuring Food Anthropology.
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White, D., A. Wutich, K. Larson, T. Lant. (2015) Water Management Decision Makers’
Evaluations of Uncertainty in a Decision Support System: The Case of WaterSim in the Decision
Theater. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management. 58(4): 616-630.
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Larson, K.L., P. Gober, D. White, A. Wutich. (2015) Decision making under uncertainty: Water
sustainability and urban climate adaptation. Sustainability. 7: 14761-14784.
2014
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Wutich, A. and A. Brewis. (2014) Food, Water, and Scarcity: Toward a Broader Anthropology of
Resource Insecurity—with CA☆ treatment. Current Anthropology. 55(4): 444-468.
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Wutich, A., A. Ruth*, A. Brewis, C. Boone. (2014) Social bonds, stigmatized neighborhoods,
and health. Medical Anthropology Quarterly. 28(4): 556-577.
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Wutich, A., A. White*, D. White, K. Larson, A. Brewis, C. Roberts*. (2014) Hard Paths, Soft
Paths or No Paths? Cross-cultural Perceptions of Water Solutions. Hydrology and Earth System
Sciences 18: 109-120.
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Vins**, H., A. Wutich, A. Brewis, M. Beresford*, A. Ruth*, C. Roberts*. (2014) Children’s
Perceived Water Futures in the U.S. Southwest. Human Organization. 73(3): 235-246.
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Sivapalan, M., M. Konar, V. Srinivasan, A. Chhatre, A. Wutich, C. Scott, J. Wescoat, I.
Rodriguez-Iturbe. (2014) Socio-hydrology: A Use-Inspired Water Sustainability Science for the
Anthropocene. Earth’s Future 2: 225–230.
2013
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Wutich, A., A. Brewis, A. York, R. Stotts*. (2013) Rules, norms, and injustice: A cross-cultural
study of perceptions of justice in water institutions. Society & Natural Resources. 26: 795-809.
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Wutich, A. (2013) Water Insecurity, Emotional Distress, and Mental Illness: Implications for
Human Development & Capabilities. Maitreyee: Bulletin of the Human Development and
Capability Association. 23: 14-16.
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Crona†, B., A. Wutich, A. Brewis, M. Gartin*. (2013) Perceptions of Climate Change: Linking
Local and Global Perceptions through a Cultural Knowledge Approach. Climatic Change. 119(2):
519-531.
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Brewis, A., M. Gartin*, A. Wutich, A. Young. (2013) Global Convergence in Ethnotheories of
Water and Disease. Global Public Health. 8(1): 13-36.
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Rice*, J., A. Wutich, P. Westerhoff. (2013) Assessment of De Facto Wastewater Reuse: Trends
between 1980 and 2008. Environmental Science & Technology. 47(19), 11099-11105.
2012
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Wutich, A., A. York, A. Brewis, R. Stotts*, C. Roberts*. (2012) Shared cultural norms for justice
in water institutions: Results from Fiji, Ecuador, Paraguay, New Zealand, and the U.S. Journal of
Environmental Management. 113: 370-376.
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Brewis, A. and A. Wutich. (2012) Explicit versus Implicit Fat Stigma. American Journal of
Human Biology. 24(3): 332-338.
2011
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Wutich, A. (2011) The Moral Economy of Water Reexamined: Reciprocity, Water Insecurity,
and Urban Survival in Cochabamba, Bolivia. Journal of Anthropological Research. 67(1): 5-26.
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Wutich, A. (2011) Shifting Alliances: Reciprocal Relations during Times of Hardship in Urban
Bolivia. Chungara Journal of Chilean Anthropology. 43(1): 123-133.
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Brewis, A., A. Wutich, A. Falletta-Cowden*, I. Rodriguez-Soto*. (2011) Body Norms and FatStigma in Global Perspective. Current Anthropology. 52(2): 269-276.
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Hruschka, D., A. Brewis, A. Wutich, B. Morin*. (2011) Do Shared Body Norms Account for
Social Clustering of Obesity? American Journal of Public Health. 101(S1): S295-S300.
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Brewis, A., D. Hruschka, A. Wutich. (2011) Vulnerability to Fat Stigma in Women’s Everyday
Relationships. Social Science & Medicine. 73(4):491-497.
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Larson, K., A. Wutich, D. White, T. Muñoz-Erickson*, S. Harlan. (2011) Multifaceted Perspectives on Water Risks and Policies: A Cultural Domains Approach in a
Southwestern City. Human Ecology Review. 18(1): 75-87.
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York, A., A. Barnett*, A. Wutich, B. Crona†. (2011) Household Bottled Water Consumption in
Phoenix: A Lifestyle Choice. Water International. 36(6): 708-718.
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Anderies, J., M. Janssen, F. Bousquet, J.C. Cardenas, D. Castillo, M.C. Lopez, R. Tobias, B.
Vollan, A. Wutich. (2011) The challenge of understanding the role of context in experimental
studies of common pool resource governance. Ecological Economics. 70(9): 1571-1579.
2010
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Wutich, A., T. Lant, D. White, K. Larson, and M. Gartin*. (2010) Comparing Focus Group and
Individual Responses on Sensitive Topics: A Study of Water Decision-makers in a Desert City.
Field Methods. 22(1): 88-110.
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White, D., A. Wutich, T. Lant, K. Larson, P. Gober, and C. Senneville*. (2010) Credibility,
Salience, and Legitimacy of Boundary Objects for Environmental Decision Making: Water
Managers’ Assessment of WaterSim – A Dynamic Simulation Model in an Immersive Decision
Theater. Science and Public Policy. 37(3): 219-232.
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Gartin*, M., B. Crona†, A. Wutich, P. Westerhoff. (2010) Urban Ethnohydrology: Cultural
Knowledge of Water Quality and Water Management in a Desert City. Ecology and Society.
15(4): 36.
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Muñoz-Erickson*, T., B. Cutts*, E. Larson*, K. Darby*, M. Neff*, A. Wutich, and B. Bolin.
(2010) Spanning boundaries in an Arizona watershed partnership: information networks as tools
for entrenchment or ties for collaboration? Ecology and Society. 15(3): 22.
2009
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Wutich, A. (2009) Water Scarcity and the Sustainability of a Common Pool Resource Institution
in the Urban Andes. Human Ecology. 37(2): 179-192. Nominated for American Anthropology
Association Environment & Anthropology Section’s Junior Scholar Award.
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Wutich, A. (2009) Intrahousehold Disparities in Women and Men’s Experiences of Water
Insecurity and Emotional Distress in Urban Bolivia. Medical Anthropology Quarterly. 23(4):
436-454.
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Wutich, A. (2009) Estimating Household Water Use: A Comparison of Diary, Prompted Recall,
and Free Recall Methods. Field Methods. 21(1): 49-68.
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Hadley, C. and A. Wutich. (2009) Experience-based Measures of Food and Water Security:
Biocultural Approaches to Grounded Measures of Insecurity. Human Organization. 68(4): 451460.
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Larson, K., D. White, P. Gober, S. Harlan, and A. Wutich. (2009) Divergent Perspectives on
Water Resource Sustainability in a Public-Policy-Science Context. Environmental Science &
Policy. 12: 1012-1023.
2008
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Wutich, A. and K. Ragsdale. (2008) Water Insecurity and Emotional Distress: Coping with
supply, access, and seasonal variability of water in a Bolivian squatter settlement. Social Science
& Medicine. 67: 2116-2125.
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Wutich, A. and C. McCarty (2008) Social Networks and Infant Feeding in Oaxaca, Mexico.
Maternal and Child Nutrition. 4(2): 121-135.
2007
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Wutich, A. (2007) Vulnerability, Resilience, and Robustness to Urban Water Scarcity: A Case
from Cochabamba, Bolivia. S.O.U.R.C.E.: Journal of the United Nations University Institute for
Environment and Human Security. 6: 61-70.
2005
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McCarty, C. and A. Wutich. (2005) Conceptual and empirical arguments for including or
excluding ego from structural analyses of personal networks. Connections: Journal of the
International Network for Social Network Analysis. 26(2): 80-86.
BOOK CHAPTERS
Accepted & in press
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Wutich, A. & A. Brewis. Water, Worry, and Mental Health. In Global Health Reader. (Eds., S.
Closer and P. Brown). Oxford University Press.
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Brewis, A., S. Trainer†, A. Wutich, and S.Y. Han†. Obesity, Depression, and Weight-Related
Stigma. In Foundations of BioSocial Health: Stigma and Illness Interactions. (Eds. S. Lermand
and M. Singer). Lexington Books.
2016
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Trainer†, S., A. Brewis, A. Wutich . (2016) Considering Weight-loss Surgery: Applied
Anthropology and the Invisible Obese Body. In The Applied Anthropology of Obesity:
Prevention, Intervention, and Identity. (Eds., C. Morris and A. DeLaricheliere). Pp. 141-150.
Rowman and Littlefield.
2015
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Wutich, A., A. Brewis, J. Rosales Chavez*, C. Jaiswal**. (2015) Water, Worry, and Doña
Paloma: Why Water Security is Fundamental to Global Mental Health. In Global Mental Health.
(Eds., B. Kohrt and E. Mendenhall). Pp. 57-72. Left Coast Press.
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Brewis, A., A. Wutich, D. Williams. (2015) Teaching obesity: Stigma, social justice, and self. In
Teaching Food in Anthropology: Experiences, Challenges, and Techniques. (Eds., R. Wilk and C.
Lowe Swift). Left Coast Press.
2014
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Wutich, A., G. Ryan, H.R. Bernard. (2014) Text Analysis: Qualitative and Quantitative
Approaches. In Handbook of Methods in Cultural Anthropology. (Eds., H.R. Bernard and C.
Gravlee). Second edition. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
2013
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Wutich, A., A. Brewis, S. Sigurdsson*, R. Stotts*, A. York. (2013) Fairness and the Human
Right to Water: A Preliminary Cross-cultural Theory. In The Social Life of Water in a Time of
Crisis. (Ed., John Wagner). Berghahn Books.
2012
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Wutich, A. (2012) Gender, Water Scarcity, and the Management of Sustainability Tradeoffs. In
Gender and Sustainability: Critical Case Studies from the Americas and Asia. (Eds., M. CruzTorres and P. McElwee). University of Arizona Press.
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Wutich, A. (2012) The Sustainability of a Customary Andean Water Institution among the Urban
Poor of Cochabamba, Bolivia. In Water, Cultural Diversity and Global Environmental Change:
Emerging Trends, Sustainable Futures? (Ed., B.R. Johnston). UNESCO/Springer.
2011
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Jewell*, B. and A. Wutich. (2011) Charitable Christians, Punitive Neighbors: Religiosity and
Economic Norms in a Bolivian Squatter Settlement. Research in Economic Anthropology. Special
volume on the Economics of Religion (Eds., L. Obadia & D. Wood). 31: 307-337.
2010
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Wutich, A. and C. Gravlee. (2010) Water Decision-makers in a Desert City: Text Analysis and
Environmental Social Science. In Environmental Social Sciences: Methods and Research Design.
(Eds., I. Vaccaro, E.A. Smith, and S. Aswani). Cambridge University Press.
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Wutich, A. (2010) After the Cochabamba Water War of 2000: A Common Pool Resource
Institution in the Urban Andes. Reprinted from Human Ecology 37(2). In Human Ecology:
Contemporary Research and Practice. (Eds., D. Bates and J. Tucker). Springer Academic.
ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES
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Brewis, A. and A. Wutich. (Accepted) Stigma/Social Stigma. In International Encyclopedia of
Anthropology. Ed., H. Callan and C. Panter-Brick. Wiley-Blackwell.
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Wutich, A. (Accepted) Methods in medical anthropology: Discourse Analysis. In International
Encyclopedia of Anthropology. Ed., H. Callan and C. Panter-Brick. Wiley-Blackwell.
INVITED COMMENTS & RESPONSES
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Wutich, A. and H.R. Bernard. (2016) Sharing qualitative data & analysis. With whom and how
widely? Invited Response to “Promises and pitfalls of data sharing in qualitative research” (A.
Tsai, B. Kohrt, et al.) Social Science & Medicine. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2016.09.041.
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Wutich, A. and A. Brewis. (2016) Invited Comment on “Conditional Cash Transfers, Food
Security and Health: Biocultural insights for poverty-alleviation policy from the Brazilian
Amazon” (B. Piperata, K. McSweeney, R.S. Murrieta) Current Anthropology.
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Wutich, A. (2013) Invited Comment on “Cooperation in Context: Public goods games and postSoviet collectives in Kamchatka, Russia” (D. Gerkey). Current Anthropology. 54(2): 168-169.
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Wutich, A., A. White*, D. White, K. Larson, A. Brewis, C. Roberts*. (2013) Interactive
Comment on “Hard Paths, Soft Paths or No Paths? Cross-cultural Perceptions of Water
Solutions.” Hydrology and Earth System Sciences Discussions. 10: C5097-C102.
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Hruschka, D., A. Brewis, A. Wutich, B. Morin*. (2012). Response to “Is social clustering of
obesity due to social contagion or genetic transmission?” American Journal of Public Health.
102(1): 7-8.
PROCEEDINGS
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Cutts*, B., T. Munoz-Erickson*, E. Larson*, M. Neff*, K. Darby*, B. Bolin and A. Wutich.
(2010) Ego-network properties as a way to reveal conflict in collaboration’s clothing. Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences. 4: 93-101.
PUBLIC, PROFESSIONAL, & COMMUNITY-ORIENTED PUBLICATIONS
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Brewis, A., A. Wutich, S. Trainer. (2016) The World Hates Fat People. Sapiens. September 30,
2016. http://www.sapiens.org/body/fat-stigma-weight-reduction/
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Ruth, A., A. Wutich, A. Brewis. (2016) The Global Ethnohydrology Study: Integrating Global
Health Undergraduates in Collaborative Research. Practicing Anthropology.
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Brewis, A., C. Roberts*, R. Stotts*, A. Wutich. (2011). Transdisciplinary Anthropology at
Arizona State: The School of Human Evolution and Social Change. Anthropology News. May
2011.
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Wutich, A. and M.E. Smith. (2009) Anthropologists Cheer Ostrom’s Nobel: Prize Recognizes
Interdisciplinary Scholarship. Anthropology News. December 2009: 24.
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Harlan, S.L., M. Budruk, A. Gustafson*, K. Larson, D. Ruddell*, V.K. Smith, S. Yabiku and A.
Wutich. (2007) Phoenix Area Social Survey 2006 Highlights: Community and Environment in a
Desert Metropolis. Central Arizona – Phoenix Long-Term Ecological Research Project, No.
4. Global Institute of Sustainability, Arizona State University.
RESEARCH FUNDING, 2006-2017
Note: All grants are listed, including those not reported in ASU ERA and COEUS systems. However, grants not
reported in ASU ERA and COEUS systems were excluded from research summary statistics reported above. All
data sources are reported here, by grant, to facilitate data verification.
EXTERNAL FUNDING - COMPETITIVELY AWARDED, 2006-2016 (16 total)
United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)
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Securing Water for and from Agriculture through Effective Community & Stakeholder
Engagement. PI: Kathryn J. Brasier (Penn State). $5,000,000 (data from Congressional press
release). Role: Arizona team co-lead, with C. Williams and S. Porter. To begin 7/2017. 20172020.
Innovative Metrics and Methods for Agriculture and Nutrition Actions (IMMANA)
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A novel tool for the cross-cultural assessment of household-level water insecurity: scale
refinement, validation, and manual development. PI: Sera Young (Northwestern
University) £249,854 (data from funder). Role: Co-I, 5% recognition. 2017-2019.
NSF-Decision-making under Uncertainty: Decision Center for a Desert City, 2010-2019
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DCDC III: Transformational Solutions for Urban Water Sustainability Transitions in the
Colorado River Basin. (SES #1462086) PI: D. White. $4,499,926 (data from ASU ERA reporting
system). Role: Co-PI, 10% recognition ($449,992). 2015-2019.
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DCDC II: Urban Climate Adaptation. (SES #0951366) PI: P. Gober. $6,305,162 (data from ASU
COEUS reporting system). Role: Senior Personnel, 1% recognition ($63,051). 2010-2015.
NSF-DEB/BCS: Central Arizona-Phoenix Long-term Ecological Research Project, 2007-2016
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Phase IV: “Design with nature" infrastructure in Phoenix: A research framework for exploring
urban ecology and sustainability. PI: D. Childers. $6,762,000. Role: IPA Leader (Senior
Personnel).
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Phase III: Urban Sustainability in the Dynamic Environment of Central Arizona, USA. (BCS
#1026865) PI: N. Grimm. $5,951,984 (data from ASU COEUS reporting system). Role: Senior
Personnel, 1% recognition ($59,520). 2010-2016.
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NSF-BCS Supplement: Phoenix Area Social Survey. $251,844 (data from ASU COEUS
reporting system). Role: Co-PI, 1% recognition ($2,518). 2010.
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NSF-BCS Supplement: Improving Response To Hard To Reach Groups. $19,994 (data from
ASU COEUS reporting system). Role: Co-PI, 10% recognition ($1,999). 2010.
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NSF-DEB: Central Arizona-Phoenix Long-term Ecological Research Project Phase II (DEB
#0423704). PI: N. Grimm. $4,816,551 (data from ASU COEUS reporting system). Role: Senior
Personnel, 1% recognition ($48,166). 2004-2010.
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NSF-BCS Supplement: Research Education for Undergraduates. Role: Senior Personnel. $52,000
(data from ASU COEUS reporting system). Role: Senior Personnel, 1% recognition ($520).
2006-2009.
NSF-Cultural Anthropology Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grants, 2015-2016
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Governing Value: Cooperation and Collective Action in the Production of Global Commodities.
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(#1459004) Role: PI, 100% recognition. Co-PI: M. Beresford. $25,200 (data from ASU ERA
reporting system).
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A Critical Investigation of the Factors that Influence the Collection of Suicide Surveillance Data.
(#1459811) Role: PI, 100% recognition. Co-PI: A. Hagaman. $24,457 (data from ASU ERA
reporting system).
NSF-Cultural Anthropology: Short Courses in Methods of Cultural Anthropology, 2008-2015
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Short Courses in Methods of Cultural Anthropology III. Role: Senior Personnel. PI: H. Russell
Bernard. Lead Institution: University of Florida. 2012-2016. $551,750 (Data from University of
Florida, Dept. of Anthropology). Role: Faculty, 0% recognition ($17,500).
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Short Courses in Methods of Cultural Anthropology III. Role: Senior Personnel. PI: H. Russell
Bernard. Lead Institution: University of Florida. 2008-2011. (Data from University of Florida,
Dept. of Anthropology) Role: Faculty, 0% recognition ($13,000).
NSF-Cultural Anthropology: Summer Institute for Research Design in Cultural Anthropology, 2006-2015
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Summer Institute for Research Design in Cultural Anthropology. Role: Senior Personnel. PI: J.
Johnson. Lead Institution: University of Florida. 2015-2017. $112,513 (Data from University of
Florida, Dept. of Anthropology). Role: Faculty, 0% recognition ($10,944).
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Summer Institute for Research Design in Cultural Anthropology. Role: Senior Personnel. PI: J.
Johnson. Lead Institution: East Carolina University. 2011-2015 (Data from NSF Cultural
Anthropology website; personal records). Role: Faculty, 0% recognition (approx. $18,000).
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Summer Institute for Research Design in Cultural Anthropology. Role: Senior Personnel. PI: J.
Johnson. Lead Institution: East Carolina University. 2006-2011 (Data from NSF Cultural
Anthropology website; personal records). Role: Faculty, 0% recognition (approx. $26,000).
Wenner-Gren Foundation Dissertation Fieldwork Grant, 2012-2013
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Filling the Vacuum with Urban Gardens: The Political Economy of Food Access in Detroit,
Michigan. Role: PI. (Foundation funds; ASU recognition not allocated) Student: B. Jewell.
$24,030 (data from Wenner-Gren).
NSF-HSD: Social Dynamics in Response to Shifting Immigration Policy and Practice, 2008-2012
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Research on Latino Social Networks, Resource Flow, and Household Reorganization (HSD
#0827025) PI: J. Glick. $747,249 (data from ASU COEUS reporting system). Role: Co-PI, 10%
recognition ($74,725). 2008-2012.
INTERNAL FUNDING - COMPETITVELY AWARDED, 2006-2016 (3 total)
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ASU President’s Initiative Fund, Late Lessons from Early History. The South Phoenix
Collaborative: Leveraging Culture & History to Support Healthy, Resilient, and
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Just Communities. PI. A. Brewis. Co-PIs: A. Wutich, C. Boone, S. Szkupinski Quiroga.
$350,000. 2008-2012.
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ASU Institute for Social Science Research Catalyst Grant. Interactions of Culture, Environment,
and Childhood Nutritional Wellbeing in South Phoenix. Role: PI. Co-PIs: A. Brewis, C. Boone,
G. Chowell-Puente, J. Glick, S. Szkupinski Quiroga, D. Winham. $20,000. 2008.
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Faculty Summer Research Award, SHESC, ASU. Coupled Land and Water Institutions in Urban
Bolivia. Role: PI. $1,500. 2008.
WORKSHOPS, COLLOQUIUA, & PRESENTATIONS
INVITED WORKSHOPS & COLLOQUIUA
2017
2016
2016
2016
2016
2015
2014
2014
2013
2012
2011
2011
2011
2010
2010
2010
2008
2007
2006
2006
Northwestern University, Reimagining Household Water Security Research II (upcoming)
Penn State, NSF Workshop on Qualitative Research Ethics in an Era of Big Data
Texas A&M University, Reimagining Household Water Security Research I
Ernst Strüngmann Forum, Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies
American Anthropological Association, NSF Data Management Workshop
Dublin City University, Workshop on Chronic Disease Management & Co-morbidities
NSF SESYNC, Socio-hydrology Workshop (virtual participation)
School for Advanced Research, Obesity, Upward mobility & Body capital (virtual participation)
University of Illinois, Socio-hydrology Workshop (virtual participation)
NSF-LTER ASM, Working Group on Anthropological Sciences, Ecology, & Environment
Stanford University, Workshop on Migration as Adaptation
Emory University, Department of Anthropology
Ohio State University, Center for Latin American Studies
University of Kentucky, NSF Workshop on Food Insecurity and Mental Health
University of Arizona, Department of Anthropology
University of Florida, NSF IGERT on Wise Use of Water, Wetlands, and Watersheds
Indiana University, Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis
University of South Florida, Department of Anthropology
United Nations University, Institute on Environment and Human Security
University of North Texas, Department of Anthropology
REFEREED PANELS – ORGANIZER AND DISCUSSANT ROLES
Wutich, A. (2015) Crystal Clear: Advancing Water Research on Human and Environmental Health
through Innovative Methods, Analysis, and Data Visualization Techniques. American
Anthropological Association 114th Annual Meeting, Denver. Discussant.
Wutich, A. and D. Groenfeldt. (2015) Cultural Values in Water Management. Society for Applied
Anthropology 75th Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh. Organizer & Discussant.
Beresford*, M. and A. Wutich. (2015). Rethinking Development From Below: Post, Neo, or Nothing
New? Society for Applied Anthropology 75th Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh. Co-organizer.
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Jayawickreme, N., B. Kohrt, B. Kaiser, A. Rasmussen, A. Wutich. (2015) Workshop on Cross-Cultural
Instrument Development and Adaptation. Society for the Study of Psychiatry and Culture Annual
Meeting. Providence. Co-organizer.
Wutich, A. (2013) Community managed continuity and change: cultural codes for sustainability.
American Anthropological Association 112th Annual Meeting, Chicago. Discussant.
Wutich, A. (2013) Troubled Waters: 21st Century Challenges in the American West. Society
for Applied Anthropology 73rd Annual Meeting, Denver. Discussant.
Sivapalan, M. with A. Wutich and M. Konar. (2013) Socio-hydrology: Co-evolution and Future of
Human-Water Resource Systems. AAAS Annual Meeting, Boston. Co-discussant.
Wutich, A. (2012) Precariedad and Third Way Neoliberalism in Latin America. American
Anthropological Association 111th Annual Meeting, San Francisco. Discussant.
Wutich, A. and D. Hruschka. (2011). Re-envisioning culture: challenging legacies and shifting tidemarks
in the study of human diversity. American Anthropological Association 110th Annual Meeting,
Montreal. Invited Double Session. Co-organizer.
Hruschka, D., A. Wutich, and A. Brewis-Slade. (2010) Parsing the "Complex Whole" without losing it:
Understanding the dynamic role of culture in health and environmental research. American
Anthropological Association 109th Annual Meeting, New Orleans. Co-organizer.
Jewell*, B. and A. Wutich. (2010) Ethnographic Approaches to Studying the Commons: New Challenges
and Opportunities. International Association for the Study of the Commons North American
Regional Meeting, Tempe. Co-organizer.
Hadley, C. and A. Wutich. (2008). Towards an Applied Human Biology. Society for Applied
Anthropology 68th Annual Meeting, Memphis. Co-organizer.
Gravlee, C. and A. Wutich. (2003). New Research on Social Networks. Society for Applied
Anthropology 63rd Annual Meeting, Portland. Co-organizer.
REFEREED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
du Bray*, M., A. Wutich, R. Stotts*, A. Brewis. (2016) The Water Is Rising Quick: Climate Change and
Emotional Geographies. Society for Applied Anthropology 76th Annual Meeting, Vancouver, CA.
Stotts*, R., K. Larson, A. Wutich, A. Brewis, D. White. (2016) Cross-Cultural Perceptions of Water
Risks and Solutions. Society for Applied Anthropology 76th Annual Meeting, Vancouver, CA.
Trainer†, S., A. Brewis, A. Wutich (2016) Success and Failure in Weight-Loss Blogging. Society for
Applied Anthropology 76th Annual Meeting, Vancouver, CA.
Wutich, A. (2015) Future Directions for an Anthropology of Water. American Anthropological
Association 114th Annual Meeting, Denver.
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du Bray, M., A. Wutich, R. Stotts, A. Brewis. (2015) The Tide is Turning: Emotional Geographies of
Communities Affected by Climate Change. American Anthropological Association Meeting
114th Annual Meeting, Denver.
Trainer†, S., A. Brewis, A. Wutich (2015) Anticipating the De-Stigmatized Self in the Context of
Massive Weight-Loss. American Anthropological Association 114th Annual Meeting, Denver.
Brewis, A., S. Trainer†, A. Wutich. (2015) Getting "dumped": Bariatric patients' strange eating of
familiar food. American Anthropological Association 114th Annual Meeting, Denver.
Beresford*, M. and A. Wutich. (2015) Decolonization, Alternative Modernizations, or Neoliberalism?
Bolivian Development Ideologies in Practice. Society for Applied Anthropology 75th Annual
Meeting, Pittsburgh.
Wutich, A. (2015) Traversing Collaborative Boundaries: In Discipline, Authorship, and Legitimacy: A
Roundtable Discussion. Society for Applied Anthropology 75th Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh.
du Bray*, M., M. Palta†, R. Stotts*, A. Wutich. (2015) Can ecosystem services do more harm than good
for vulnerable populations? Use of urban wetlands by homeless populations in a desert city.
Society for Applied Anthropology 75th Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh.
Stotts*, R., M. du Bray*, A. Wutich, A. Brewis. (2015) Cross-cultural perceptions of wastewater
treatment and reuse. Society for Applied Anthropology 75th Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh.
Trainer†, S., A. Wutich, and A. Brewis. (2014) Social Networks, Constructions of Self, and Obese
Bodies: Approaches to Testing for Dynamic Interactions and Change. American Anthropological
Association 113th Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C.
Wutich, A. and A. Brewis. (2013) Bodies as barriers: Obesity and constrained opportunity in the
upwardly mobile. American Anthropological Association 112th Annual Meeting, Chicago.
Brewis, A. and A. Wutich. (2013) Suffering from fat: Biocultural on globalizing weight gain and blame.
American Anthropological Association 112th Annual Meeting, Chicago.
Beresford*, M., A. Wutich, and C. Carvajal*. (2013) Ayni, real and imagined, in post-neoliberal Bolivia.
American Anthropological Association 112th Annual Meeting, Chicago.
Wutich, A. (2013) Water Insecurity, Emotional Distress, and Mental Health. SMA-European Association
of Social Anthropologists Meeting, Tarragona, Spain.
Wutich, A. and A. Brewis (2013) Using Theories of Hunger to Understand Thirst: On the Causes and
Consequences of Water Insecurity. Society for Applied Anthropology 73rd Annual Meeting,
Denver, United States.
Bishop*, A., M. Palta†, and A. Wutich (2013) Water Insecurity and Health in Desert Homeless
Populations. Society for Applied Anthropology 73rd Annual Meeting, Denver, United States.
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Wutich, A. and A. Brewis (2012) Rules, norms, and injustice: Perceptions of justice in water institutions
in four cultures. American Anthropological Association 111th Annual Meeting, San Francisco.
Wutich, A., M. Beresford*, C. Carvajal*. (2012) The rhetoric of ayni and the reality of reciprocity in
post-neoliberal Bolivia. Society for Applied Anthropology 72nd Annual Meeting, Baltimore,
United States.
Wutich, A. (2011) Ethnographic Approaches to Understanding Social Sustainability in Small-scale Water
Systems. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, United States.
Brewis, A. and A. Wutich. (2011) The Dynamics of Fat Stigma in Women's Interpersonal Judgments.
American Anthropological Association 110th Annual Meeting, Montreal, Canada.
Wutich, A. (2011) “Because water is life”: Water privatization and water sharing in Cochabamba,
Bolivia. Society for Applied Anthropology 71st Annual Meeting, Seattle, United States.
Szkupinski-Quiroga, S., A. Wutich, J. Glick, and A. Brewis. (2011) In the Shadow of SB 1070:
Community-based Research in South Phoenix, Arizona. Society for Applied Anthropology 71st
Annual Meeting, Seattle, United States.
Wutich, A., A. Brewis, S. Sigurdsson*, R. Stotts* and A. York. (2011) Fairness and the Human Right to
Water: A Preliminary Cross-cultural Theory. Resilience Alliance 2nd International Science and
Policy Conference. Tempe, United States.
Aktipis, A., L. Cronk, D. White and A. Wutich. (2011) Resource management and risk pooling:
Exploring the viability of indigenous solutions for modern resource problems. Resilience
Alliance 2nd International Science and Policy Conference. Tempe, United States.
Brewis, A. and A. Wutich. (2010) Cultural variation and fat-stigma in local and global perspective.
American Anthropological Association 109th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, United States.
Cronk, L., A. Wutich, A. Aktipis, D. White, and H. Wasielewski*. (2010) The Circulation of Cultural
Variants: Exploring the Relationship between Culture and Behavior. American Anthropological
Association 109th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, United States.
Wutich, A. (2010) Sustaining Habitats or Humans? Tradeoffs in a Water-Scarce City. Society for
Applied Anthropology 70th Annual Meeting, Merida, Mexico.
Brewis, A., A. Wutich, I. Rodriguez-Soto* and A. Falletta-Cowden*. (2010) Big Bodies, Small World:
Tracking the Relationship between Body Mass and Fat Stigma across Diverse Ecologies. Annual
Meeting of the Human Biology Association, Albuquerque, United States.
White, D., K. Larson, P. Gober, S. Harlan, and A. Wutich (2010) Divergent perspectives on water
resource sustainability in a public–policy–science context: A tripartite conceptual model of
human-ecological judgments. 16th International Symposium on Society and Resource
Management. Corpus Christi, United States.
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Wutich, A. (2009) Devil's Bargain: The Costs of Maintaining a Sustainable Water Institution in a
Bolivian Squatter Settlement. American Anthropological Association 108th Annual Meeting,
Philadelphia, United States.
Wutich, A., A. Brewis, and B. Crona†. (2009) Cross-Cultural Approaches to Studying Climate Change:
Results from Arizona, Fiji, Bolivia, and New Zealand. Society for Applied Anthropology 69th
Annual Meeting, Santa Fe, United States.
Wutich, A. (2008) Anthropological Approaches to Studying Climate Science, Policy, and Perceptions in
a Desert City. American Anthropological Association 107th Annual Meeting, San Francisco,
United States.
Brewis, A., A. Wutich, S. Szkupinski-Quiroga, C. Boone (2008) Inclusionary and collaborative strategies
in biocultural anthropology: The South Phoenix project. Presidential Session: American
Anthropological Association 107th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, United States.
Wutich, A. (2008) Human Adaptability to Water Insecurity: Evidence from Urban Bolivia. Society for
Applied Anthropology 68th Annual Meeting, Memphis, United States.
Szkupinski-Quiroga, S., A. Brewis, A. Wutich. (2008) New multimodal techniques in Combating
Childhood Obesity and Diabetes. Society for Applied Anthropology 68th Annual Meeting,
Memphis, United States.
White, D., A. Wutich, T. Lant, K. Larson, M. Gartin*, and P. Gober (2008) Comparing focus group and
individual responses on sensitive topics: A study of water decision-makers in a desert city. 14th
International Symposium on Society and Resource Management.
Wutich, A. (2007) Getting Hard-to-get Data: Are Group Interviews Really Better? American
Anthropological Association 106th Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., United States.
Gartin*, M.., Z. Hasan*, S. Szkupinski-Quiroga, C. Boone, A. Wutich, A. Brewis. (2007) Childhood
Obesity, Cultural Understandings, and Nutritional Knowledge Flow: Trans-disciplinary
Approaches. American Anthropological Association 106th Annual Meeting.
Gartin*, M. and A. Wutich (2007) The Social Dynamics of Policy-maker Collaboration. Society for
Applied Anthropology 67th Annual Meeting. Tampa, United States.
White, D., A. Wutich, T. Lant, S. Ledlow, P. Gober (2007) Credibility, saliency, and legitimacy of
boundary objects for water resource management decision making: Assessing stakeholder
response to DCDC WaterSim. 13th International Symposium on Society and Resource
Management.
Wutich, A. (2006) Building bridges between humanism and science in cultural anthropology, with an
example from urban water scarcity. American Anthropological Association 105th Annual
Meeting. San Jose, United States.
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Wutich, A. (2005) Urban Water Scarcity: Theory and Method. American Anthropological Association
104th Annual Meeting. Washington, D.C., United States.
Wutich, A. and Gravlee, C. (2003) A personal network approach in measurements of race and ethnicity.
Society for Applied Anthropology 63rd Annual Meeting, Portland, United States.
Wutich, A. and McCarty, C. (2003) A personal network method for measuring race and ethnicity.
Sunbelt Social Networks Conference, Cancun, Mexico.
Wutich, A. (2002) Social network effects on weaning decisions in Oaxaca, Mexico. Society for Applied
Anthropology 62nd Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Unites States.
Wutich, A. (2001) Living local and going global: Integrating quantitative and qualitative methods in a
study of internet use in Xi'an, China. Society for Applied Anthropology 61st Annual Meeting.
Merida, Mexico.
REFEREED POSTER PRESENTATIONS
Patel**, S., J. Rice†, R. Stotts*, A. Wutich, A. Brewis. 2016. A. Cross-Cultural Perceptions of Health
Implications from Wastewater Reuse. American Association for the Advancement of Science
Annual Meeting, Washington, DC.
Chipman*, D., K. Larson, A. Wutich. 2016. Calculated Risk: Comparing Perceptions of Climate Change
Impacts and Responsibilities. American Association for the Advancement of Science Annual
Meeting, Washington, DC.
Stotts*, R., M. du Bray*, A. Wutich, A. Brewis. 2016. The Emotional Geographies of Climate Change in
Three U.S. Contexts. American Association for the Advancement of Science Annual Meeting,
Washington, DC.
Palta†, M.M., M. du Bray*, R. Stotts*, A. Wutich, A. Wolf**. 2015. Urban “accidental” wetlands
mediate water quality and heat exposure for homeless populations in a desert city. American
Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, California.
du Bray*, M., R. Stotts*, J. Rice†, P. Westerhoff, A. Wutich, A. Brewis. 2015. Public Perceptions of
Wastewater Treatment and Reuse in Phoenix, AZ: Results of the Global Ethnohydrology Study.
American Association for the Advancement of Science Annual Meeting, San Jose, CA.
Chipman*, D., K.L. Larson, D.D. White, A. Wutich. 2015. I will survive: Perceptions of personal and
global climate change risks. American Association for the Advancement of Science Annual
Meeting, San Jose, CA.
McAtee**, H., H. Vins**, J. Maupin, A. Wutich, A. Brewis, R. Stotts*, M. Beresford*, C. Roberts*.
2015. The Science of Water Art: Children's Perspectives on Water and the Environment in
Guatemala. American Association for the Advancement of Science Annual Meeting, San Jose,
CA.
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Chowell Puente, G., M. Gaughan, D. Hruschka, A.M. Hurtado, M. Jehn, D. Schaefer, A. Wutich. 2014.
Undergraduate practicum: Integrating research and teaching to meet the needs of community
health. American Public Health Association 142nd Annual Meeting, New Orleans.
Rosales Chavez*, J., A. Wutich, A. Brewis, C. Roberts*, A. McAllister**. 2014. Cultural Models of
Climate Change and Disease. American Association for the Advancement of the Sciences Annual
Meeting, Chicago, IL.
Rosales Chavez*, J., A. Wutich, D. White, K. Larson, A. Brewis. 2013. Cross-Cultural Perceptions on
Uncertainty in Climate Science: Preliminary results from DCDC and the Global Ethnohydrology
Study. Presented at the American Association for the Advancement of the Sciences Annual
Meeting, Boston, MA.
SECTION 2: TEACHING & MENTORSHIP
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
UNDERGRADUATE COURSES
ASB 100 Introduction to Global Health (Arizona State University)
ANT 2700 Introduction to Applied Anthropology (University of Florida)
ASB 327 Disaster! (Arizona State University)
ASB 328 Rules, Games, and Society (Arizona State University)
ASB 410 Poverty, Social Justice, and Global Health (Arizona State University)
ASB 484 Global Mental Health
ASB 484 Research Practicum: Community Partnerships in Global Health (Arizona State University)
SSH 484 Research Internship (Arizona State University)
GRADUATE COURSES
ASB 500 Ethnographic Field Methods (Arizona State University)
SOS 594 Social Networks, Knowledge, and Environmental Management (Arizona State University)
ANG 5494 Text Analysis (University of Florida)
ANG 6750 Research Methods in Cognitive Anthropology (University of Florida)
DEVELOPMENT OF CURRICULUM & TRAINING PROGRAMS
LAB-BASED INSTRUCTION
Director, Lab for Culture, Health and Environment, 2010-2017
STUDENT-CENTERED RESEARCH EDUCATION & CURRICULUM DESIGN
Global Ethnohydrology Study, 2007-2017
“Science of Water Art” Citizen Science Study, 2010-2013
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South Phoenix Collaborative, 2008-2013
NEW COURSE DEVELOPMENT
SSH 100 Introduction to Global Health (Online Course – Module on Health Inequities)
ASB 102 Cultural Anthropology (Online Course – All activities; Modules on Research & Ecology)
ASB 327 Disaster! (Online Course)
ASB 410 Poverty, Social Justice, and Global Health (Online, Hybrid, & Accelerated Courses)
ASM 414 Global Health Practicum (Online Course)
ASB 484 Global Mental Health (Online Course)
ASB 484 Stigma and Health across Cultures (Online Course)
STUDENT SUPERVISION
Ph.D. Students
Graduated – Committee Chair or Co-chair
Ashley Hagaman, Ph.D. in Global Health, Committee Chair, Graduation: 2017
Employment: UNC-Chapel Hill, Postdoctoral Researcher
Dissertation funding: Fulbright - Nepal, NSF Cultural Anthropology DDIG #1459811
Meg du Bray, Ph.D. in Anthropology, Committee Co-chair, Graduation: 2017
Employment: Idaho State University, Postdoctoral Researcher
Dissertation funding: NSF #0951366, Cross-cultural research
Rhian Stotts, Ph.D. in Anthropology, Committee Chair: 2017
Employment: Arizona State University, Instructor
Dissertation funding: NSF #0951366, Cross-cultural research
Current committees – Chair or co-chair
Melissa Beresford, Ph.D. in Anthropology, Committee Chair
Dissertation funding: NSF Cultural Anthropology DDIG #1459004, South Africa
Christine DeMyers, Ph.D. in Anthropology, Committee Chair, MA completed: 2016
Ph.D. + Dissertation funding: NSF GRFP #1462086, 2016-2019
Rubén Núñez Gonzalez, Ph.D. in Anthropology, Committee Co-chair
Ph.D. + Dissertation funding: Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologia, Mexico, 2015-2018
Danelle Cooper, Ph.D. in Global Health, Committee Co-chair
Ph.D. funding: ASU Doctoral Enrichment Fellowship
Graduated – Committee Member
Ayesha Masood, Ph.D. in Anthropology, Committee Member, Graduation: 2017
Heather Steiness, Ph.D. in Global Health, Committee Member, Graduation: 2016
Alissa Ruth, Ph.D. in Anthropology, Committee Member, Graduation: 2014
Employment: Arizona State University, Associate Academic Professional
Jacelyn Rice, Ph.D. in Sustainable Engineering, Committee Member, Graduation: 2014
Employment: Duke University, Postdoctoral Researcher
Isa Rodriguez-Soto, Ph.D. in Global Health, Committee Member, Graduation: 2013
Employment: University of Akron, Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Meredith Gartin, Ph.D. in Global Health, Committee Member, Graduation: 2012
Employment: Ohio University, Global Health Initiative Coordinator
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Current committees – Member role
Julie Gwiszcz, Ph.D. in Anthropology, Proposal Defense complete: Sept. 11, 2015, Committee Member
Sarah McCool, Ph.D. in Global Health, Proposal Defense complete: Sept. 25, 2015, Committee Member
M.A. Students
Graduated
Drew Blasco, M.A. in Global Health, 2016, Committee Chair
Post-graduation: Ph.D. student in Global Mental Health, New York University
Colin Kunzweiler, M.A. in Sustainability, 2013, Committee Member
Post-graduation: Ph.D. student in Epidemiology, University of Illinois at Chicago
Ashlan Falletta-Cowden , M.A. in Anthropology, 2011, Committee Member
Post-graduation: Employed as Principal and Consultant at Holland Consulting
Sveinn Sigurdsson, M.A. in Anthropology, 2011, Committee Co-chair
Post-graduation: Employed as Administrator of Clinical Redesign at Yale-New Haven Hospital
Tabitha Morris, M.A. in Global Health, 2011 Committee Chair
Post-graduation: Employed as Healthcare Informatics Analyst at Health Services Advisory Group
Melissa Kuhn, M.A. in Global Health, 2011, Committee Chair
Post-graduation: Employed as Infectious Disease Data Specialist, Maricopa County
Zeenat Hasan, M.A. in Anthropology, 2009, Committee Member
Post-graduation: Employed as Health Program Director, Asian Pacific Community in Action
Current
Alicia Dinsmore, M.A. in Global Health, Committee Chair
Grant Support for Undergraduate Research
Monet Niesluchowski, IMMANA Grant & Barrett Intercontinental Travel Award, 2017
Emma Dooley, CLAS Undergraduate Summer Enrichment Award, $2400, 2015
Drew Blasco, SHESC Undergraduate Teaching Award, $4800, 2015
Emily Colon, SHESC Undergraduate Summer Enrichment Award, $2400, 2014
Monet Niesluchowski, SHESC Undergraduate Summer Enrichment Award, $2400, 2014
Alyssa McAlister, NSF Research Education for Undergraduates (REU), $4000, 2013-14
Holly Vins, NSF Research Education for Undergraduates (REU), $4000, 2012-2013
Cinthia Carvajal, ASU President’s Initiative Fund (sub-award), $4900, 2011
Jason Loose, NSF Research Education for Undergraduates (REU), $4000, 2008-2009
Undergraduate Students
Graduated – Honors Thesis Supervisor
Chloe Warpinski, 2017, Honors Committee Chair
Post-graduation: Fulbright Scholar, Slovakia
Ainsley Pfeiffer, 2017, Honors Committee Chair
Post-graduation: Fulbright Scholar, India
Austin Smith, 2017, Honors Committee Chair
Post-graduation: M.A. in Health Sciences student at Arizona State University
Emma (Dooley) Hawkins, 2016, Honors Committee Chair
Post-graduation: Medical Assistant, Barrow Brain & Spine
Hannah McAtee, 2015, Honors Committee Chair
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Post-graduation: Medical (M.D.) student at University of Iowa
Sarah Patel, 2015, Honors Committee Chair
Post-graduation: Medical (M.D.) student at University of Arizona - Phoenix
Drew Blasco, 2014, Honors Committee Chair
Post-graduation: M.A. in Global Health student at Arizona State University
Alyssa McAlister, 2014, Honors Committee Chair
Post-graduation: Employed as Informatics Analyst at Health Services Advisory Group
Laurel Grey, 2013, Honors Committee Chair
Post-graduation: Medical (M.D.) student at University of Arizona
Holly Vins, 2013, Honors Committee Chair
Post-graduation: Earned MPH at Emory Univ., Employed at US Centers for Disease Control
Alicia Dinsmore, 2012, Honors Committee Chair
Post-graduation: M.A. in Global Health student at Arizona State University
Arlis Jenkins, 2012, Honors Committee Second Reader
Joseph Canarie, 2011, Honors Committee Chair
Post-graduation: Medical (M.D.) student at Dartmouth University
Elizabeth Unbehaun, 2011, Honors Committee Third Reader
Post-graduation: Account Manager at Yelp.com
Colleen Healy, 2010, Honors Committee Chair
Post-graduation: Earned J.D. at Duke University, Employed as Attorney at Miller Canfield, MI
Allen Shepard, 2008, Honors Committee Second Reader
Post-graduation: Medical (D.O.) student at Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine
Current – Honors Thesis Supervisor
Monet Niesluchowski, Honors Committee Chair
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SECTION 3: SERVICE
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
SERVICE – INTERNATIONAL LEVEL
Associate Editor
Field Methods. Journal Editor, H. Russell Bernard. 2012-2017
Organizer, Society for Economic Anthropology Annual Conference
Theme: Water and Economy; March 1-3, 2018
Member, Scientific Advisory Board
Ernst Strüngmann Forum, Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, 2017-2021
Expert Trainer in Qualitative Methods
MAXQDA Professional Trainer Program, Berlin, Germany, 2016
SERVICE – NATIONAL LEVEL
National Science Foundation, Training for Methods in Cultural Anthropology
Instructor, NSF Summer Institute for Research Design in Cultural Anthropology (for Ph.D.
students), 2006-2008, 2010-2015
Instructor, NSF Short Courses in Research Methods in Cultural Anthropology (for professors),
Systematic Techniques for Analyzing Qualitative Data, 2008, 2010-2015
Instructor, NSF Workshops on Research Methods in Anthropology, Text Analysis
American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, 2009-2012, 2014-2015
Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meeting, 2009, 2011-2013, 2015-2016
SMA-European Association of Social Anthropologists Meeting, 2013
Editorial Board
Human Ecology: An Interdisciplinary Journal. Editor, Daniel Bates. 2012-2017
Left Coast Press Series on Anthropology and Global Public Health: Critical Approaches and
Constructive Solutions. Editors, Peter J. Brown and Emily Mendenhall. 2011-2016
Program Committee
International Association for the Study of the Commons
North American Regional Meeting, 2010
Workshop on Dynamic Models of Cultural Diversity
Arizona State University, 2011
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Reviewer
For Academic Publications
American Anthropologist; American Ethnologist; American Journal of Human Biology;
American Journal of Public Health; Climate and Development; Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry;
Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability; Ecological Economics; Ecology of Food and
Nutrition; Ecology & Society; Environmental Science and Pollution Research; Food Security;
Geoforum; Global Mental Health: Human Ecology; Human Organization; International Journal of
the Commons; International Journal of Social Research Methodology; Journal of Contemporary
Ethnography; Journal of Environmental Management; Journal of Water and Health; Journal of
Water Sanitation and Hygiene for Development; Medical Anthropology; Medical Anthropology
Quarterly; Nature Climate Change; PLOS ONE; Public Health Nutrition; Routledge; SAGE;
Social Science & Medicine; Society & Natural Resources; Sociological Methods and Research;
Water, Climate & Society; Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews – Water; World Development
For Grant Programs
California Sea Grant Program; National Institute of Justice - Graduate Research Fellowship
Program in the Social and Behavioral Sciences; National Science Foundation - Senior Research
in Cultural Anthropology; National Science Foundation - Doctoral Dissertation Research
Improvement Grants Program in Cultural Anthropology; Netherlands Organization for Scientific
Research
SERVICE – UNIVERSITY & SCHOOL LEVEL
University Level Service
Member, CLAS Dean’s Advisory Council on Social Science & Health, 2016-2017
Member, CLAS Research Advisory Committee, 2015-2017
Instructor, Workshops in Text Analysis, Content Analysis, Grounded Theory, ASU ISSR, 2012-2016
Invited participant, Support for Teaching at ASU Group, ASU Office of the Provost, 2014
Invited panelist, “Prepping for Class,” ASU College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, 2014
ASU Review Panel, Carnegie CASE Professor of the Year Award, 2014
Invited panelist, “The Teaching Role,” Preparing Future Faculty, ASU Graduate College, 2012
Invited panelist, “Faculty Success in the Early Years,” ASU Faculty Women’s Association, 2012
Faculty Mentor, GlobeMed – A Student-led International Global Health Organization, 2012-2015
School Level Service: Chair or Faculty Representative Roles
Director, Center for Global Health, 2015-2017
Head, Personnel Committee, SHESC, 2017-2018
Approach Head, Cultural Anthropology, SHESC, 2013-2014
Cultural Anthropology Representative, Executive & Graduate Committees, SHESC, 2013-2014
Interim Director, Environmental Social Sciences Doctoral Program, SHESC, 2014
Organizer, Colloquium Series, SHESC, 2012-2013
Chair, Masters Symposium Committee, SHESC, 2010-2011
Faculty Senator, Arizona State University Academic Senate, 2007-2010
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University & School Committee Service: Member Roles
Personnel Committee, 2016-2017
Search Committee, Social Science Research Methods Hire, SHESC, 2016-2017
Development Committee, SHESC, 2015-2016
Search Committee, Evolutionary Anthropology Hire, SHESC, 2015-2016
Search Committee, Linguistic Anthropology Target Hire, SHESC, 2014
Promotion and Tenure Review Committee, SHESC, 2014
Search Committee, Global Health Target Hire, SHESC, 2013
Search Committee, Anthropometry Target Hire, SHESC, 2012
Seven Year Academic Program Review for SHESC, ASU Graduate College, 2010-2012
Search Committee, Environmental Anthropology Searches (two positions), SHESC, 2009-2010
Personnel Committee, SHESC, 2008-2009
Search Committee, Medical Anthropology Searches (two positions), SHESC, 2008-2009
Cluster for the Advancement of Social Networks, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, 2008-2009
Latin American Studies Curriculum Committee, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, 2007-2008
COMMUNITY SERVICE
PUBLIC EXHIBITION
2016-7 “Toilet-to-Tap: Wastewater Reuse around the World” Exhibition, ASU Night of the Open Door
2011
“Citizen Science: Science of Water Art” Exhibition, ASU Night of the Open Door
CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT
2012
Developed “Citizen Science: Science of Water Art” curriculum in partnership with SRP and
the Maricopa County Board of Education. Disseminated lectures and activities to 78 AZ schools.
MAJOR COMMUNITY-BASED RESEARCH PARTNERSHIPS
2007-16
2011-12
2008-10
2004-08
Global Ethnohydrology Study
SRP and the Maricopa County Board of Education, Science of Water Art Project.
Mountain Park Health Center of South Phoenix, South Phoenix Health Collaborative.
Water Committee of Villa Israel, Cochabamba, Bolivia, Water Scarcity & Institutions
SELECTED MEDIA COVERAGE
2017
What’s the best way to adapt to climate change? Christian Science Monitor.
http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/Complexity/2017/0502/What-s-the-best-way-to-adapt-toclimate-change
2016
When Shit Happens. IRIN Humanitarian News.
http://www.irinnews.org/report/102414/when-shit-happens
2015
Researchers Find What Makes ‘Black Market’ Water Vendors Work More Reliably And Fairly.
Jersey Tribune. http://jerseytribune.com/2015/12/15/researchers-find-what-makes-black-market-
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water-vendors-work-more-reliably-and-fairly/
2012
Are Your Friends Making You Fat? Psychology Today.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/food-thought/201208/are-your-friends-making-you-fat
2011
Fat Stigma Is Fast Becoming a Global Epidemic. New York Times.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9404E5DA163CF932A05750C0A9679D8B63
2011
Global Spread: More People Think 'Fat People Are Lazy'. TIME Magazine.
http://healthland.time.com/2011/03/31/global-spread-more-people-think-fat-people-are-lazy/
2011
Fat people around the world 'now stigmatised for being lazy and unattractive'. Daily Mail.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1372032/Fat-people-world-stigmatised-lazyunattractive.html
WEBSITES
Research profile
Amber Wutich
wutich.org
Research Study
Global Ethnohydrology Study
shesc.asu.edu/research/projects/global-ethnohydrology-study
Blog
Lazy, Crazy, and Disgusting: Revealing stigma. Undoing its damage.
lazycrazydisgusting.com
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
American Anthropological Association
Society for Economic Anthropology Section
Environment and Anthropology Section (occasional)
Society for Medical Anthropology Section (occasional)
Society for Applied Anthropology
International Association for the Study of the Commons (occasional)
International Network for Social Network Analysis (occasional)
Society for the Study of Psychiatry and Culture (occasional)
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