Curriculum Vitae
I. Personal Information
Name:
Paul Spicer
Present Position:
Professor
Department of Anthropology
Center for Applied Social Research
University of Oklahoma
Business Address:
Center for Applied Social Research
3100 Monitor Ave., Suite 100
Norman, OK 73072
405-325-9291 (phone)
405-325-9066 (fax)
[email protected]
Home Address:
601 Monomoy Ct.
Norman, OK 73071
405-701-5894
[email protected]
Citizenship:
U.S.
II. Education
University of Michigan
University of Minnesota
University of Minnesota
1988
1990
1995
A.B. in Anthropology
M.A. in Anthropology
Ph.D. in Anthropology
III. Professional Positions
1993-95
1994-95
1995-97
1997-03
2003-08
2003-08
2008-
Instructor, Departments of Anthropology and Urban Studies, University of
Minnesota
Instructor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, St. John’s University,
Minnesota
Instructor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Colorado Health
Sciences Center
Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Colorado Health
Sciences Center
Faculty Associate, Center for Bioethics and Humanities, University of Colorado
Health Sciences Center
Professor, Department of Anthropology and Center for Applied Social Research,
University of Oklahoma
IV. Honors, Recognitions, and Awards
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1988
1988-1991
2000
2004
2007
Highest Honors and High Distinction, University of Michigan
Departmental Fellowship in Anthropology, University of Minnesota
Invited Address to the International Psychoanalytic Association’s Annual Joseph
Sandler Research Conference, London, England
Invited Address to the International Congress on Addiction, Vienna, Austria
Invited Address, Engaged Scholar Speaker Series, Michigan State University, East
Lansing, MI
V. Memberships
American Anthropological Association
American Public Health Association
Society for Research on Child Development
VI. Committee Service and Teaching Activities
Committee Service
1999-2008
1999-2000
1999-2001
2002
2002
2002
2002-2006
2003-2007
2004-2008
2004
2004-5
2004
2004-6
Member, Executive Committee, American Indian and Alaska Native Programs,
Department of Psychiatry, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center
Member, Steering Committee, National Early Head Start Evaluation, Administration
on Children, Youth, and Families, Department of Health and Human Services
Member, Committee on Local-National Integration, National Early Head Start
Evaluation, Administration on Children, Youth, and Families, Department of Health
and Human Services
Member, Consultant Panel, American Indian/Alaska Native Head Start Research
Project, Administration for Children, Youth, and Families, Department of Health
and Human Services
Member, Special Emphasis Panel, National Institute of Environmental Health
Sciences, RFA 02-005, “Environmental justice: Partnerships to address ethical
challenges in environmental health”
Temporary member, Services Research Review Committee, National Institute of
Mental Health
Joint leadership, Study Group on Race, Culture, and Ethnicity, a group of
multidisciplinary and multiethnic scholars conducting research on family processes in
diverse families organized under the third Family Research Consortium of the
National Institute of Mental Health and currently funded by the National Science
Foundation
Member, Planning Committee, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center’s
Annual Genetics and Ethics Conference
Grant reviewer, Substance Abuse Policy Research Program, Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation
Temporary member, Social Psychology, Personality, and Interpersonal Processes
Review Committee, Center for Scientific Review, National Institutes of Health
Member, Program Advisory Committee, National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and
Alcoholism and University of New Mexico’s Southwest Alcohol Research Group
Grant reviewer, Center for Alaska Native Health Research, University of Alaska
Temporary member, Social Science and Population Studies Review Committee,
Center for Scientific Review, National Institutes of Health
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2005
2005
2005-2008
20062008200920092009-
Grant reviewer, Centers for Excellence in Complementary and Alternative Medicine,
the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, National
Institutes of Health
Grant reviewer, Northwest/Alaska Center to Reduce Oral Health Disparities,
University of Washington
Member, Research Committee, Denver Institute of Psychoanalysis
Regular member, Social Science and Population Studies Review Committee, Center
for Scientific Review, National Institutes of Health
Member of the Board, Zero to Three, Washington, DC
Member, Advisory Council, Social Science Woven Into Meteorology Initiative,
National Weather Center, Norman, OK
Member, Research Council, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
Member, Committee A, Native American Studies, University of Oklahoma, OK
Teaching Activities
1991
1993-1995
1994-1995
1995
1995-
1996
1998
1998-2008
1998-2002
2000
Colloquium presentation, “Between detox and the drunks: Reflections on an
ethnographic evaluation of services for homeless chemically dependent men,”
Department of Anthropology, University of Minnesota, October, 1991
Instructor, Departments of Anthropology and Urban Studies, University of
Minnesota.
Courses taught: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology; Human Evolution; Native
People of North America; Homelessness in American Cities
Instructor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, St. John’s University,
Minnesota.
Course taught: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
Grand rounds in addiction psychiatry, “Recovery and the restoration of the self for
American Indian drinkers,” Department of Psychiatry, University of Colorado
Health Sciences Center, December, 1995
Course instructor, Addiction Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, University of
Colorado Health Sciences Center.
Units taught: Epidemiology; Culture and Substance Abuse; Developmental
Perspectives in the Addictions; Psychodynamics; Phenomenology of Addiction;
Stages of Change and Remission.
Seminar presentation, with Christina Mitchell and Ellen Keane, “Combining
qualitative and quantitative methods to understand American Indian adolescence and
the transition to adulthood,” Developmental Psychobiology Research Group,
Department of Psychiatry, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center,
December, 1996
Taught on cultural issues in psychoanalysis to fourth year candidates, Denver
Institute for Psychoanalysis
Taught on qualitative methods in the Native Elder Research Center/Resource
Center for Minority Aging Research, American Indian and Alaska Native Programs,
Department of Psychiatry, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center
Course co-director, with Ilena Norton or Jay Shore, Cross-Cultural Psychiatry,
Department of Psychiatry, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center
Grand rounds in psychiatry, “American Indians and alcohol,” Department of
Psychiatry, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, March, 2000
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2000-2004
2001
2001
2001
2002
2002
2002
2004
2005
2005
2005
2006
2007-2008
2009-
Research training for Crystal Loudhawk, an American Indian undergraduate student,
as part of a minority supplement to “The promises and pitfalls of native genetic
research” (R01 ES 10830; Spicer, PI).
Organizer and chair of a two-and-a-half-day workshop on American Indian and
Alaska Native perspectives on genetic research, Aspen, CO, April, 2001
Two-day training on focus group methodology, with Peter Guarnaccia, Indiana
Consortium for Mental Health Services Research, Bloomington, IN, May, 2001
Two-day seminar on cultural psychology, family, and child development, with
Michelle Christensen, NIMH Family Research Consortium Postdoctoral Summer
Institute, Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA, July, 2001
Ethics panel member, “Genetic testing and children’s decision-making,” Children’s
Hospital, Denver, CO, April, 2002
Presentation to the teacher track of the annual national meeting of the American
Indian Science and Engineering Society, “Genetics and American Indians,” with
Crystal Loudhawk and Marjorie Bezdek, Tulsa, OK, November, 2002
Keynote address to faculty and staff of the Colorado Multiple Institutional Review
Board, “Universities and American Indian communities: Some lessons learned in
recent conversations about research,” Aurora, CO, November, 2002
Keynote address at the Annual Spring Conference of the High Plains Society for
Applied Anthropology, “From infants to elders: Reflections on research in American
Indian communities across the generations,” with Lori Jervis, Estes Park, CO, April,
2004
Invited address, “Remission from alcohol dependence in a northern plains tribe:
Perspectives from epidemiological and ethnographic research,” Critical Issues in
Minority Health Symposium Series, University of New Mexico, May, 2005
Lecturer, “Ethics in research,” University of Colorado at Denver and Health
Sciences Center, September, 2005
Invited address, “Understanding suffering in American Indian communities,” Career
Opportunities in Research Program, Department of Sociology, University of
Nebraska at Lincoln, October, 2005
Invited address, “Trust and genetic research: Lessons from Indian country,” 4th
annual Wyoming Multicultural Health Conference, Cheyenne, WY, May, 2006
Postdoctoral Training Faculty, Developmental Psychobiology Research Group,
Department of Psychiatry, University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences
Center
Graduate Liaison, Department of Anthropology, University of Oklahoma
Courses Taught:
General Anthropology; Psychological Anthropology; The Anthropology of
Childhood; Anthropology and the Health of Indigenous People
VI. Journal Review and Referee Work
199519981999200020002000-
Reviewer, American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research
Reviewer, Medical Anthropology Quarterly
Reviewer, Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry
Reviewer, Addiction
Reviewer, Child Development
Reviewer, Social Science and Medicine
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Reviewer, National Head Start Association Dialog
Reviewer, Current Anthropology
Reviewer, University of Texas Press
Reviewer, Journal of General Internal Medicine
Reviewer, University of Arizona Press
Reviewer, Community Mental Health Journal
Reviewer, The Lancet
Reviewer, Child Abuse and Neglect
Reviewer, Maternal and Child Health Journal
Reviewer, American Journal of Medical Genetics
Reviewer, Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology
Consulting Editor, Infant Mental Health Journal
VII. Grants and Contracts
1990-1991
Professional contract with Hennepin County, Minnesota, to evaluate services for
homeless, chemically dependent men under a community demonstration grant from
the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (Mark Willenbring and
Joseph Whelan, PIs; $20,000 in fees for professional services).
1991-1992
Principal Investigator, Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research.
Dissertation grant for research on drinking in an urban American Indian community
(Grant #5386; $7,200 direct costs).
1992-1993
Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation, Anthropology Program.
Dissertation grant for research on narrative discourse in an urban American Indian
community (BNS-9121746; $1,800 direct costs).
1998-2002
Project Director, Head Start Bureau, Administration on Children and Families,
“Culture and Development in Children Ages 0-3 in One Indian Tribe,” a Head StartUniversity partnership grant to explore factors impacting the social, emotional,
cognitive, and linguistic development of American Indian toddlers, with special
attention to the implications for intervention (90 YF 0021; C. Mitchell, PI; $297,000
direct costs)
1999-2003
Principal Investigator, National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism and the
National Center for Minority Health Disparities, “American Indian pathways to
abstinence,” a researcher-initiated grant to explore remission from alcohol
dependence in an American Indian community (R01 AA 11932; $482,000 direct
costs).
2000-2003
Principal Investigator, National Institute of Environmental Health Science, the
National Institute for General Medical Sciences, and the National Human Genome
Research Institute, “The promises and pitfalls of native genetic research,” a
researcher-initiated grant to explore the ethical, legal and social implications of
genetic research with Indian and Native people (R01 EH 10830; $795,000 direct
costs).
2001-2003
Principal Investigator, National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism,
“American Indian spirituality and alcohol,” an exploratory-developmental grant to
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develop approaches to understanding American Indian spirituality and its relations to
abstinence from alcohol (R21 AA 13053; $150,000 direct costs).
2001-2006
Project Leader, National Institute of Mental Health, “Broadening the Base of
American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Services Research,” a research
project conducted under the National Center for American Indian and Alaska Native
Mental Health Research (P01 MH42473; Spero Manson, PI; $120,000 direct costs
for this research project).
2001-2002
Professional services contract with the University of California, Los Angeles
(through Spero Manson) to conduct a study of problems in the provision of
culturally appropriate health care services to American Indian and Alaska Native
children in foster care under a grant from the Maternal and Child Health Bureau and
Indian Health Service, Department of Health and Human Services (Neal Halfon, PI;
$8,000 in fees for professional services).
2001-2003
Professional services contract with the University of Indiana to conduct a study of
the social, economic, and cultural context of evaluating health care outcomes under a
grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (Bernice Pescosolido, PI; $15,600
in fees for professional services).
2003-2006
Principal Investigator, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Substance Abuse Policy
Research Program, “Substance abuse and Indian child welfare,” a grant to explore
the barriers to, and possibilities for, more effective integration of culturally
appropriate substance abuse treatment for AI/AN parents in state, county, and tribal
child welfare systems (RWJF 47400; $289,000 direct costs).
2003-2008
Principal Investigator, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development,
“Poverty, stress, and American Indian child development,” a researcher-initiated
grant to explore contextual factors and child development over the first three years
of life in a northern plains tribe (R01 HD42760; $1,790,000 direct costs).
2004
Professional services contract with Kaiser Permanente of Colorado to conduct
qualitative research and data analysis as part of a project on marketing improved
depression treatment to employer purchasers under a grant from the Robert Wood
Johnson Foundation (Arne Beck, PI; $9,900 in fees for professional services).
2004-2008
Project Leader, National Center for Minority Health and Health Disparities,
“Preventing obesity in American Indian infants and toddlers,” a research project
conducted under the Center on American Indian and Alaska Native Health
Disparities (P60 MD000507; Spero Manson, PI; $200,000 direct costs for this
research project).
2004-2008
Principal Investigator, University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center
Subcontract, National Human Genome Research Institute, “Center for Genomics
and Health Care Equality,” a Center for Excellence in ELSI Research at the
University of Washington exploring a series of questions relating to the clinical
integration of genomics in health care for disadvantaged populations (P50 HG03374;
Wylie Burke, PI; $100,000 direct costs for the subcontract).
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2005-2007
Professional services contract with the University of Washington to design
ethnographic inquiry under a grant from the National Institute of Child Health and
Human Development as part of an exploratory developmental grant to develop a
brief intervention to combat the overfeeding of infants by Somali refugee women
(Mark Doescher, PI; $10,000 in fees for professional services).
2005-2008
Principal Investigator, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Cancer
Institute, and National Institute of General Medical Sciences, “Trust and genetic
research in diverse U.S. communities,” a researcher-initiated grant to explore the
sources of trust and mistrust in genetic research in diverse U.S. racial and ethnic
communities (R01 HG003891; $750,000 direct costs).
2005-2008
Principal Investigator and Center Director, Office of Planning, Research, and
Evaluation, Administration on Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health
and Human Services, “The American Indian and Alaska Native Head Start Research
Center (AIANHSRC),” a center grant to develop community-based participatory
research in early childhood education in American Indian and Alaska Native
communities (90-YF-0053/05-AIH-002; $2,115,000 direct costs).
2008-2010
Principal Investigator, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Active Living Research
Program, “Evaluating environments for activity for American Indian children,” a
grant to explore the barriers to and possibilities for activity in a rural tribal context
(RWJF 63884; $89,000 direct costs).
2008-2010
Principal Investigator, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development,
“Promoting cognitive development from birth in a northern plains tribe,” an
exploratory-developmental grant to develop a culturally appropriate intervention to
address language delay in tribal children (HD 058509: $275,000 direct costs).
VIII. Bibliography
A. Papers Published in Peer-refereed Journals
1. Paul Spicer, Mark L. Willenbring, Frank C. Miller, and Elgie Raymond (1994). Ethnographic
evaluation of case management for homeless alcoholics. Practicing Anthropology 16, 23-26.
2. Paul Spicer (1997). Toward a (dys)functional anthropology of drinking: Ambivalence and the
American Indian experience with alcohol. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 11, 306-323.
3. Paul Spicer (1998). Narrativity and the representation of experience in American Indian
discourses about drinking. Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry 22, 139-169.
4. Paul Spicer (1998). Drinking, foster care, and the intergenerational continuity of parenting in an
urban Indian community. American Indian Culture and Research Journal 22, 335-360.
5. Jean Ann Summers, Helen Raikes, James Butler, Paul Spicer, Barbara Pan, Sarah Shaw, Mark
Langager, Carol McAllister, and Monique Johnson (1999). Low income fathers’ and mothers’
perceptions of the father role: A qualitative study in four Early Head Start communities. Infant Mental
Health Journal 20, 291-304.
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6. Robert Emde and Paul Spicer (2000). Experience in the midst of variation: New horizons in
development and psychopathology. Development and Psychopathology 12, 313-331.
7. Paul Spicer (2001). Culture and the restoration of the self among former American Indian
drinkers. Social Science and Medicine 53, 227-240.
8. Jon Korfmacher and Paul Spicer (2002). Toward an understanding of the child's experience in a
Montessori Early Head Start program. Infant Mental Health Journal 23, 197-212.
9. Paul Spicer, Jon Korfmacher, Terry Hudgens, and Robert Emde (2002). Joining communities:
The value of an ethnographic perspective in early childhood intervention research. National Head
Start Association Dialog 5, 340-355.
10. Paul Spicer (2002). Les méthodes ethnographiques, la psychanalyse, et la récherche sur les
interventions précoces (Ethnographic methods, psychoanalysis, and early childhood intervention
research). Devenir 14, 389-399.
11. Christina M. Mitchell, Janette Beals, Douglas K. Novins, D.K., Paul Spicer, & the AISUPERPFP team (2003). Drug use among two American Indian populations: Prevalence of lifetime
use and DSM-IV substance use disorders. Drug and Alcohol Dependence 69, 29-41.
12. Paul Spicer, Douglas K. Novins, Christina M. Mitchell, and Janette Beals (2003). Aboriginal
social organization, contemporary experience, and American Indian adolescent alcohol use. Journal of
Studies on Alcohol 64, 450-457.
13. Lori L. Jervis, Paul Spicer, Spero M. Manson, and the AI-SUPERPFP Team (2003). Boredom,
“trouble,” and the realities of postcolonial reservation life. Ethos 31, 38-58.
14. Janette Beals, Spero M. Manson, Christina M. Mitchell, Paul Spicer, and the AI-SUPERPFP
Team (2003). Cultural specificity and comparison in psychiatric epidemiology: Walking the tightrope
in American Indian research. Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry 27, 259-289.
15. Janette Beals, Paul Spicer, Christina M. Mitchell, Douglas K. Novins, Spero M. Manson, and
the AI-SUPERPFP Team (2003). Disparities in alcohol use: Comparison of two American Indian
reservation populations with national data. American Journal of Public Health 93, 1683-1685.
16. Paul Spicer, Janette Beals, Calvin D. Croy, Christina M. Mitchell, Douglas K. Novins, Laurie
Moore, Spero M. Manson, and the AI-SUPERPFP Team (2003). The prevalence of alcohol
dependence in two American Indian reservation populations. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental
Research 27, 1785-1797.
17. Anne M. Libby, Heather D. Orton, Douglas K. Novins, Paul Spicer, Dedra Buchwald, Janette
Beals, Spero M. Manson, Ph.D., and the AI-SUPERPFP Team (2004). Childhood physical and
sexual abuse and subsequent alcohol and drug disorder for two American Indian tribes. Journal of
Studies on Alcohol 65, 74-83.
18. Jay Shore and Paul Spicer (2004). A model for alcohol-mediated violence in an Australian
Aboriginal community. Social Science and Medicine 58, 2509-2521.
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19. Pamela Sankar, Mildred Cho, Celeste Condit, Linda Hunt, Barbara Koenig, Patricia Marshall,
Sandra Lee, and Paul Spicer (2004). Genetic research and health disparities. JAMA 291, 2985-2989
20. Douglas K. Novins, Janette Beals, Laurie A. Moore, Paul Spicer, Spero M. Manson, and the AISUPERPFP Team (2004). Use of biomedical and traditional healing options among American
Indians: Sociodemographic correlates, spirituality, and ethnic identity. Medical Care 42, 670-679.
21. Marjorie Bezdek, Calvin C. Croy, Paul Spicer, and the AI-SUPERPFP Team (2004).
Documenting natural recovery in American Indian drinking behavior: A coding scheme. Journal of
Studies on Alcohol 65, 428-433.
22. Janette Beals, Douglas K. Novins, Paul Spicer, Heather D. Orton, Christina M. Mitchell, Spero
M. Manson, and the AI-SUPERPFP Team (2004). Challenges in operationalizing the DSM-IV
clinical significance criterion. Archives of General Psychiatry 61, 1197-1207.
23. Janette Beals, Spero M. Manson, Nancy R. Whitesell, Paul Spicer, Douglas K. Novins, Christina
M. Mitchell, and the AI-SUPERPFP Team (2005). Prevalence of DSM-IV disorders and attendant
help-seeking in two American Indian reservation populations. Archives of General Psychiatry 62, 99-108.
24. Joan M. O’Connell, Douglas K. Novins, Janette Beals, Paul Spicer, and the AI-SUPERPFP
Team (2005). Disparities in patterns of alcohol use among reservation-based and geographically
dispersed American Indian populations. Alcoholism 29, 107-116.
25. Janette Beals, Spero M. Manson, Nancy R. Whitesell, Christina M. Mitchell, Douglas K. Novins,
Sylvia Simpson, Paul Spicer, and the AI-SUPERPFP Team (2005). Prevalence of Major Depression
in two American Indian reservation populations: Unexpected findings with a structured interview.
American Journal of Psychiatry 162, 1713-1722
26. Janette Beals, Douglas K. Novins, Nancy R. Whitesell, Paul Spicer, Christina M. Mitchell, Spero
M. Manson, and the AI-SUPERPFP Team (2005). Mental health disparities: Prevalence of mental
disorders and attendant service utilization of two American Indian reservation populations in a
national context. American Journal of Psychiatry 162, 1723-1732
27. Nancy R. Whitesell, Jan Beals, Christina M. Mitchell, Douglas K. Novins, Paul Spicer, Spero M.
Manson, and the AI-SUPERPFP Team (2005). Latent class analysis of substance use: Comparison
of two American Indian reservation populations and a national sample. Journal of Studies on Alcohol 67,
32-43
28. Joan O’Connell, Douglas K. Novins, Janette Beals, Calvin Croy, Anna E. Baron, Paul Spicer,
Dedra Buchwald, and the AI-SUPERPFP Team (2006). The relationship between patterns of
alcohol use and mental and physical health disorders in two American Indian populations. Addiction
101, 69-83
29. Janette Beals, Douglas K. Novins, Paul Spicer, Nancy R. Whitesell, Christina M. Mitchell, Spero
M. Manson, and the AI-SUPERPFP team (2006). Help-seeking for substance problems in two
American Indian reservation populations. Psychiatric Services 57, 512-520
30. Anne M. Libby, Heather D. Orton, Richard P. Barth, Mary Bruce Webb, Barbara J. Burns,
Patricia Wood, and Paul Spicer (2006). Alcohol, drug and mental health specialty treatment services
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by race/ethnicity: A national study of children and families involved with child welfare. American
Journal of Public Health 96, 628-631
31. Nancy R. Whitesell, Carol E. Kaufman, Christina M. Mitchell, and Paul Spicer (2006).
Developmental trajectories of personal and collective self-concept among American Indian
adolescents. Child Development 77, 1487-1503
32. Marjorie Bezdek and Paul Spicer (2006). Maintaining abstinence in a northern plains tribe.
Medical Anthropology Quarterly 20, 160-181
33. Dedra Buchwald, Veronica Mendoza-Jenkins, Calvin Croy, Helen McGough, Marjorie Bezdek,
and Paul Spicer (2006). Attitudes of urban American Indians and Alaska Natives regarding
participation in research. Journal of General Internal Medicine 21, 648-651
34. Diane Hughes, James Rodriguez, Emilie P. Smith, Deborah J. Johnson, Howard C. Stevenson,
and Paul Spicer (2006). Parents’ ethnic/racial socialization practices: A review of research and
directions for future study. Developmental Psychology, 42, 747-770
35. Christina M. Mitchell, Nancy Rumbaugh Whitesell, Paul Spicer, Janette Beals, Carol E.
Kaufman, and the Pathways of Choice and Healthy Ways Project Teams (2007). Cumulative risk for
early sexual initiation among American Indian youth: A discrete-time survival analysis. Journal of
Research on Adolescence 17, 387-412
36. Nancy R. Whitesell, Janette Beals, Christina M. Mitchell, Douglas K. Novins, Joan M. O’Connell,
Paul Spicer, Spero Manson, and the AI-SUPERPFP Team (2007). Marijuana initiation in two
American Indian reservation communities: Comparison to a national sample. American Journal of
Public Health 97, 1311-1318
37. Anne M. Libby, Heather D. Orton, Richard P. Barth, Mary Bruce Webb, Barbara J. Burns,
Patricia A. Wood, and Paul Spicer (2007). Mental health and substance abuse services to parents of
children involved with child welfare: A study of racial and ethnic health care disparities.
Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research 34, 150-159
38. Nancy R. Whitesell, Jan Beals, Christina M. Mitchell, Paul Spicer, Douglas K. Novins, Spero M.
Manson, and the AI-SUPERPFP Team (2007). Disparities in drug use and dependence among two
American Indian reservation communities and a national sample. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry
77, 131-141
39. Paul Spicer, Marjorie Bezdek, Spero Manson, and Jan Beals (2007). A program of research in
spirituality and American Indian alcohol use. Southern Medical Journal 100:430-432
40. Paul Spicer and Michelle Sarche (2007). Culture and community in research with American
Indian and Alaska Native infants, toddlers, and families. Zero to Three 27(5): 55-56
41. Paul Spicer (2007). Commentary: From parenting to fathering and back again. Applied
Developmental Science 11, 203-204
42. Michelle C. Sarche, Calvin D. Croy, Cecelia K. Big Crow, Christina M. Mitchell, and Paul Spicer
(in press). Maternal correlates of 2-year-old American Indian children’s social-emotional
development in a Northern Plains tribe. Infant Mental Health Journal.
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43. Michelle C. Sarche and Paul Spicer (2008). Poverty and health disparities for American Indian
and Alaska Native children: Current knowledge and future prospects. Annals of the New York Academy
of Sciences, 1136, 126-136.
44. Lesley Steinman, Mark Doescher, Gina Keppel, Suzinne Pak-Gorstein, Elinor Graham, Aliya
Haq, Donna B. Johnson, and Paul Spicer (in press). Understanding infant feeding beliefs, practices,
and preferred nutrition education and health provider approaches: an exploratory study with Somali
mothers in the U.S. Maternal and Child Nutrition
B. Book Chapters
1. Maria Yellow Horse Brave Heart and Paul Spicer (2000). The sociocultural context of American
Indian and Alaskan Native infant mental health. In Joy Osofsky and Hiram Fitzgerald (Eds.), The
World Association of Infant Mental Health Handbook of Infant Mental Health (pp. 154-179). New York:
John Wiley & Sons.
2. Paul Spicer and Candace Fleming (2000). American Indian children of alcoholics. In Hiram E.
Fitzgerald, Barry M. Lester, and Barry S. Zuckerman (Eds.), Children of Addiction (pp. 143-164). New
York: Routledge/Falmer.
3. Paul Spicer and Michelle Christensen Sarche (2005). Responding to the crisis in American Indian
and Alaska Native children’s mental health. In Hiram E. Fitzgerald, Barry M. Lester, and Barry
Zuckerman (Eds.), The Crisis in Youth Mental Health: Critical Issues and Effective Programs; Volume One:
Childhood Disorders (pp. 257-275). Westport CT: Praeger.
4. Paul Spicer and Kelly Moore (2007). Responding to the epidemic of American Indian and Alaska
Native childhood obesity. Hiram E. Fitzgerald and Vasiliki Mousouli (Eds.), Obesity in America
Volume 2: Development and Prevention (pp. 143-166). Westport CT: Praeger
5. Paul Spicer (in press). Designing studies for special populations: Lessons from research in native
North America. Applied Research in Child and Adolescent Development: A Practical Guide. London: Taylor
and Francis
C. Government Reports and Other Publications
1. Paul Spicer, Carol McAllister, and Robert Emde (2001). Ethnography and the Early Head Start
evaluation: Contributions from local research to understanding program process. In Administration
for Children and Families, Building Their Futures: How Early Head Start Programs are Enhancing the Lives
of Infants and Toddlers in Low-Income Families (pp. A77-A80). Administration for Children and Families:
Washington, DC
2. Jon Korfmacher and Paul Spicer (2002). The child's experience in a Montessori Early Head Start
program. In Administration for Children and Families, Making a Difference in the Lives of Infants and
Toddlers and Their Families: The Impacts of Early Head Start, Volume 3 (pp. 69-86) Administration for
Children and Families: Washington, DC.
3. Terry J. Hudgens, Lereen D. Castellano, Paul Spicer, and Robert Emde (2002). Our experiences
as an EHS research site. The Head Start Bulletin 74, 28-29.
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4. Douglas K. Novins, Paul Spicer, Jan Beals, and Spero M. Manson (2004). Preventing underage
drinking in American Indian and Alaska Native communities: contexts, epidemiology, and culture.
In Richard J. Bonnie and Mary Ellen O’Connell (Eds.), Reducing Underage Drinking: A Collective
Responsibility. Committee on Developing a Strategy to Reduce and Prevent Underage Drinking (pp.
678-696). Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
5. Robin Flint, Paul Spicer Neal Halfon, and Moira Inkelas. Provision of Health and Mental Health
Services to American Indian and Alaska Native Children in Foster Care (in press). A final report on
research funded by the Indian Health Service and Maternal and Child Health Bureau. Los Angeles,
CA: UCLA Center for Healthier Children, Families and Communities.
6. Paul Spicer (2008). American Indian and Alaska Native Alcohol Control Policy. Peer-reviewed
Knowledge Asset to appear on the Substance Abuse Policy Research Program website:
www.saprp.org.
D. Book Reviews
1. Paul Spicer and Spero Manson (1996). Review of Stephen J. Kunitz and Jerrold E. Levy (1994).
Drinking Careers: A Twenty-five Year Study of Three Navajo Populations. New Haven: Yale University
Press. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease 184, 759-760.
2. Paul Spicer (1997). Review of Theresa DeLeane O’Nell (1996). Disciplined Hearts: History, Identity,
and Depression in an American Indian Community. Berkeley: University of California Press. Journal of
Nervous and Mental Disease 185, 589-90.
3. Paul Spicer (1999). Review of Sherry Saggers and Dennis Gray (1998). Dealing with Alcohol:
Indigenous Usage in Australia, New Zealand, and Canada. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. The
Bulletin of the Alcohol and Drug Study Group: A Committee of the Society for Medical Anthropology 34(2), 25.
4. Paul Spicer (2001). Review of Stephen J. Kunitz and Jerrold E. Levy (2000) Drinking, Conduct
Disorder, and Social Change: Navajo Experiences. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Medical Anthropology
Quarterly 15, 268-269.
5. Paul Spicer (2005). Humanizing madness. A review of Janis H. Jenkins and Robert J. Barrett
(2004) Schizophrenia, Culture, and Subjectivity: The Edge of Experience. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press. Current Anthropology 46, 347-348.
E. Published and Presented Scientific Abstracts
1. Paul Spicer, Symmetry and complementarity in qualitative and quantitative evaluation strategies.
Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Evaluation Association, Chicago, IL,
November, 1991.
2. Paul Spicer, Discourse and the meaning of drinking in an urban American Indian community.
Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington,
DC, November, 1993.
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3. Paul Spicer, The status of the self in American Indian discourses about drinking. Paper
presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Atlanta, GA,
December, 1994
4. Paul Spicer, Functionalism and the meaning of American Indian drinking. Paper presented at the
Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, DC, November, 1995.
5. James Moran and Paul Spicer, Urban Indians and alcohol problems: Research findings on
prevention, treatment, and related issues. An invited presentation to the National Institute on
Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism and the Indian Health Service, Washington, DC, October, 1996.
6. Paul Spicer, Anomie, alienation, and American Indian drinking. Paper presented at the Annual
Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, CA, November, 1996
7. Paul Spicer, The promise of an anthropologically informed prevention: American Indian case
studies. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology, Seattle,
WA, March, 1997.
8. Paul Spicer, Women, men, and alcohol in an urban Indian community. Paper presented at the
Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, DC, November, 1997.
9. Jon Korfmacher, Paul Spicer, and Robert Emde, Examining the child’s experience in an Early
Head Start program. Poster presented at Head Start’s Fourth National Research Conference,
Washington, DC, July, 1998.
10. Paul Spicer, On the cultural construction of treatment: Lessons from native North America.
Paper presented at the 14th International Congress on Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences,
Williamsburg, VA, July, 1998.
11. Paul Spicer, American Indians, alcohol, and violence. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of
the American Anthropological Association, Philadelphia, PA, December, 1998
12. Paul Spicer, Ethnography and the cultural validity of our methods. Paper presented at the
Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research on Child Development, Albuquerque, NM, April, 1999
13. Paul Spicer and Doug Novins, Culture and adolescent alcohol use in four American Indian
culture groups. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Research Society on Alcoholism,
Santa Barbara, CA, June, 1999
14. Paul Spicer, Toward an embodied anthropology of alcohol and drugs. Paper presented at the
Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Chicago, IL, November, 1999
15. Jon Korfmacher, Tracy O’Brien, JoAnn Robinson, Robert Emde, Paul Spicer, and Norman
Watt, Relationship between program participant baseline characteristics and program attendance
across two Early Head Start sites. Poster presented at Head Start’s Fifth National Research
Conference, Washington, DC, June 2000.
16. Paul Spicer, A postcolonial anthropology of Indians and alcohol? Paper presented at the
Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, CA, November, 2000
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17. Paul Spicer, Carol Kaufman, Christina Mitchell, Douglas Novins, and The Pathways of Choice
Team, Emerging adulthood and identity in one American Indian community. Paper presented at the
Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research on Adolescence, New Orleans, LA, April, 2002
18. Paul Spicer, Ethnography and program evaluation. Keynote address at the Annual Meeting of
the Organization of Program Evaluators in Colorado, Peaceful Valley, CO, May, 2002
19. Paul Spicer, Michelle Christensen, Amy Dethlefsen, Christina Mitchell, and Cecelia Big Crow,
Culture, context, and child development in an American Indian tribe. Poster presented at Head
Start’s Sixth National Research Conference, Washington, DC, June, 2002
20. JoAnn Robinson, Robert Emde, Jon Korfmacher, Paul Spicer, Jeffrey Shears, and Norman
Watt , Difficult relationship attitudes and depression levels as moderators of outcomes in two Early
Head Start programs. Poster presented at Head Start’s Sixth National Research Conference,
Washington, DC, June, 2002
21. Marjorie Bezdek, Suzell A. Klein, Paul Spicer, and the AI-SUPERPFP Team, Developing a
coding scheme in a multidisplinary setting. Poster presented at the Annual Meetings of the Society
for Applied Anthropology, Portland, OR, March, 2003
22. Paul Spicer, Michelle Christensen, Calvin Croy, and Christina Mitchell, The correlates of
cognitive and socio-emotional development among two-year-old American Indian children. Poster
presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research on Child Development, Tampa, FL,
April, 2003
23. Marjorie Bezdek, Lynne Bemis, Crystal Loudhawk, and Paul Spicer, Native American
participation in genetic research. Poster presented at a joint meeting of the Society for the
Anthropology of North American and the Canadian Anthropology Society/La Societe Candienne
d’Anthropologie, Halifax, Nova Scotia, May, 2003
24. Nancy Rumbaugh Whitesell, Carol E. Kaufman, Christina M. Mitchell, and Paul Spicer,
Trajectories of self esteem among American Indian adolescents: Relationship to social support,
competence, and ethnic identity. Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for
Research on Adolescence, Baltimore, MD, March, 2004
25. Nohoon Kwak, Paul Spicer, and Douglas Novins, Examining growth trajectories in American
Indian adolescent alcohol misuse using piecewise regression analysis with accelerated longitudinal
design. Poster presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Educational Research Association,
San Diego, CA, April, 2004
26. Nancy Rumbaugh Whitesell, Paul Spicer, and Christina M. Mitchell, Ethnic identity
development among American Indian adolescents. Paper presented at the Biennial Meetings of the
Society for Research on Child Development, Atlanta, GA, April, 2005
27. Paul Spicer, Jon Korfmacher, Melissa Wilhelm, Marjorie Bezdek, Robert N. Emde, Lowincome Mexican-American parents’ perspectives on a Montessori early childhood program. Poster
presented at the Biennial Meetings of the Society for Research on Child Development, Atlanta, GA,
April, 2005
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28. Marjorie Bezdek, Robert N. Emde, Paul Spicer, Northern plains American Indian parents’
perspectives on early childhood education. Poster presented at the Biennial Meetings of the Society
for Research on Child Development, Atlanta, GA, April, 2005
29. Joan M. O’Connell, Douglas K. Novins, Janette Beals, Nancy Whitesell, Paul Spicer, and the
AI-SUPERPFP Team, Patterns of alcohol and marijuana use associated with substance use disorders
in two American Indian populations. Poster presented at the Annual Meetings of the American
Public Health Association, Philadelphia, PA, December, 2005
30. Paul Spicer, Marjorie Bezdek, Michelle C. Sarche, and Gloria Tallbull, The American Indian and
Alaska Native Head Start Research Center. Discussion hour at the 8th Biennial Head Start Research
Conference, Washington, DC, June, 2006
31. Karen A. Fehringer, Calvin D. Croy, Paul Spicer, and Marjorie M. Bezdek, NCAST
Assessments of parent-child interaction in a northern plains tribe. Poster presented at the biennial
meetings of the Society for Research on Child Development, Boston, MA, March, 2007
32. Marjorie M. Bezdek, Anne Bergan, and Paul Spicer, The American Indian and Alaska Native
Head Start Research Center. Poster presented at the biennial meetings of the Society for Research
on Child Development, Boston, MA, March, 2007
33. Jon Korfmacher, JoAnn L. Robinson, Robert N. Emde, Paul Spicer, and Norman F. Watt,
Findings from a Montessori-based infant-toddler program: Child and family outcomes. Paper
presented at the biennial meetings of the Society for Research on Child Development, Boston, MA,
March, 2007
34. Lori L. Jervis, Paul Spicer, Spero M. Manson, and Jan Beals, “Forced into a mold” or “let off
the hook?”: American Indian discourse about traumatic experience in structured and open-ended
interviews. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association,
Washington DC, December, 2007
35. Karen Fehringer, Calvin Croy, Michelle C. Sarche, Mary Eunice Romero-Little, Nichole
Thompson, and Paul Spicer, Parent-child interaction and child outcomes in a northern plains
American Indian tribe. Paper presented at the biennial Head Start Research Conference, Washington
DC, June, 2008
36. Paul Spicer, Inequalities and parenting practices in a northern plains tribe. Paper presented at
the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, San Francisco CA, November,
2008
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