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                        Curriculum Vita

 

                    Lance Andrew Rasbridge

 

 

ADDRESS

East Dallas Health Center           5010 Tremont St.

COPC/Parkland Hospital              Dallas, TX 75214

3320 Live Oak, 7th Fl.              214 828-2623

Dallas, TX  75204                   LRasbr@aol.com

214 590-1127                              

214 590-1128 fax

 

 

BIRTH     January 19, 1963

 

 

EDUCATION

1991 Ph.D. in Anthropology, Southern Methodist University:

Infant/Child Feeding among Resettled Cambodians in

Dallas: Intracultural Variation in Reference to Iron

Nutrition 

 

1989 M.A. in Anthropology, Southern Methodist University

(G.P.A. 3.79)

 

1985 Certificate in Epidemiological Methods, Centers for

     Disease Control

 

1984 B.A. in Biology, Franklin and Marshall College

 

 

PROFESSIONAL AND RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

1998-  Coordinator, Cambodia Outreach Project, Refugee

Services of N. Texas, Church World Service and

Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Services affiliate

 

1992-  Community Services Coordinator, Refugee Outreach

Anthropologist, Parkland Health and Hospital System,

Dallas Co. Refugee Health Screening Prog.

 

1992-93  Adjunct Faculty, University of Texas at Dallas

(Culture Region: Southeast Asia)

 

1987 Research Assistant, Southern Methodist University

(in French Polynesia)

 

1985-86  Research Intern, O'Hara Center for Youth

     Development, Garland, Texas

 

 

PUBLICATIONS

Rasbridge, Lance A.

in press  Refugees in Dallas: Enclave versus Suburban

Patterns and Reactions.  In Manifest Destinies:

Internationalizing America and Americanizing

Immigrants in Nine Cities, David Haines and Carol

Mortland, eds. Westport, CT: Praeger.

 

Rasbridge, Lance A., A. Dinh, and Charles Kemp, RN

2000 Vietnamese health beliefs and practices related

to the end of life. Journal of Hospice and

Palliative Nursing. 2(3): 109-117.

 

Rasbridge, Lance A. and Charles Kemp, RN

1999 Refugee and Immigrant Health: A Guide for Health

     Care and Refugee Agency Staff.  Texas Department

     of Health, Austin.  Also web site:

     http://www.baylor.edu/~Charles_Kemp/refugees.htm

 

Rasbridge, Lance A.

1996 Role Transformation in an Applied Refugee Health

Program.  Practicing Anthropology 18(1).  

 

Rasbridge, Lance A.

1996 An Anthropological Approach to Cambodian Refugee

Women: Reciprocity in Oral Histories.  In

Unrelated Kin: Race and Gender in Women's

Personal Narratives, Gwendolyn Etter-Lewis and

Michele Foster, eds. New York: Routledge Press.

 

Rasbridge, Lance A. and Judith C. Kulig

1995 Infant Feeding among Cambodian Refugees.

Maternal Child Nursing 20(4).

 

Rasbridge, Lance A.

1993 Beyond Catharsis: Reciprocity and Interaction

through Cambodian Life Histories.  In Selected

Papers on Refugee Issues:II, MaryCarol Hopkins

and Nancy D. Donnelly, eds.  Arlington,  VA:

American Anthropological Association.

 

Rasbridge, Lance A. and John L. Marcucci

1992 Reactions to Coupon Coercion: Dallas Cambodian

Women's Autonomy in the Acculturative Process.

In Selected Papers on Refugee Issues:I, Pam A.

DeVoe, ed.  Washington, D.C.: American

Anthropological Association.

 

Rasbridge, Lance A.

1991 Infant/Child Feeding among Cambodians in Dallas:

Intracultural Variation in Reference to Iron

Nutrition.  Ph.D. dissertation, Southern Methodist

University.  Ann Arbor, MI: University Microfilms

Intl.

 

 

CONFERENCES ORGANIZED

1999 Southeast Asian Health Care Beliefs and Practices:

     Health Care Providers, with Vietnamese Mutual

     Assistance Association, Dallas

 

1998 Providing Health Care to Asian Patients, with

     Vietnamese Mutual Assistance Association, Dallas

 

 

PAPERS PRESENTED

2000 Refugee resettlement and anthropology into the next

     century: The view from Dallas.  Society for Applied

     Anthropology annual meetings, San Francisco

 

1999 An anthropological understanding of health-care

seeking behavior among Southeast Asian refugees. 

Texas Dept. Of Health Refugee Health and Welfare

Conference, Dallas

 

1999 The health epidemiology of Southeast Asian refugees:

a longitudinal analysis.  Texas Dept. Of Health Refugee

Health and Welfare Conference, Dallas

 

1999 Refugees, resettlement, and health care:

Anthropologist as coordinator or peacemaker? Society

for Applied Anthropology annual meetings, Tucson

 

1998 Drug-Resistant TB among refugees and immigrants.

Texas Minority Health Conference, San Antonio

 

1998 Programs on behalf of refugees and immigrants:

Anthropologists in the field.  Society for Applied

Anthropology annual meetings, San Juan

 

1997 Refugees in Dallas: Enclave versus suburban patterns

and reactions.  American Anthropological Association

annual meetings, Washington

 

1997 Refugee communities in Dallas.  The New Dallas:

Immigrants, Ethnic Entrepreneurship, and Cultural

Diversity.  Southern Methodist University, Dallas.

 

1997 Refugee health in the resettlement process: a

longitudinal perspective.  Society for Applied

Anthropology annual meetings, Seattle.

 

1996 Designing a health orientation program.  Conference

on TB in Asian/Pacific Islanders, Houston.

 

1996 Supplemental resources for refugee health services.

Texas Refugee Health: Partnerships and Effective

Practice Conference, Houston, with Charles Kemp.

 

1995 Southeast Asian medical beliefs and practices.  Susan

B. Komen annual meetings, Dallas.

 

1995 Health and illness among refugees.  National Symposium

on Refugees, San Antonio.

 

1995 Cambodians in Dallas.  American Anthropological

Association annual meetings, Atlanta.

 

1994 Culture, beliefs, tradition: Profiles of Southeast

Asians.  Southeast Asian Health Symposium, U.S. Public

Health Service, Houston.

 

1994 Health and illness among refugees: Short and long-term

consequences of resettlement.  American Anthropological

Association annual meetings, Atlanta.

 

1993 Anthropology and refugees: Research or social work?

American Anthropological Association annual meetings,

Washington.

 

1993 Refugee health care: A model in outreach.  American

Medical Student Association Region IX Conference.

 

1992 Beyond catharsis: Reciprocity and interaction through

Cambodian life histories.  American Anthropological

Association annual meetings, San Francisco.

 

1992 Cultural diversity and disaster response.  American

Red Cross Advanced Disaster Nurse Cadre Course, Dallas.

 

1991 Reactions to coupon coercion: Dallas Cambodian women's

autonomy in the acculturative process.  American

Anthropological Association annual meetings, Chicago,

with John Marcucci.

 

1990 Intracultural variation in the feeding practices of

resettled Cambodian infants in Dallas.  American

Anthropological Association annual meetings, New

Orleans.

 

 

REVIEWS

1998 Selected Papers on Refugee Issues: V, Mortland,

Carol, ed.

 

1997 Cambodian Growers in a Northeast City, for Human

Organization.

 

1997 Human Rights and Anthropological Research: Issues of

Power and Empowerment in Refugee Studies, Krulfeld, R.

and J. MacDonald, eds.

 

1996 Selected Papers on Refugee Issues: IV, Krulfeld, R.

and J. MacDonald, eds.

 

1995 Culturally Relevant Medical Initiatives for Cambodian

Australians, for Human Organization.

 

 

BOARDS AND COMMITTEES

2000 Program Chair, Committee on Refugees and Immigrants,

     General Anthropology Division, American Anthropological

     Association 

 

1998 Member, Volunteer Observers of the Cambodian Election

     (VOCE), U.S.-Indochina Reconciliation Project

 

1996- Board President, Refugee Services of North Texas,

Church World Service and Lutheran Immigration and

Refugee Service affiliate

 

1994- Founding Committee and Program Coordinator, Metroplex

Refugee Network

 

1995-96  Steering Committee, Dallas Area Infant Immunization

Coalition

 

1995 Planning Committee, Conference on TB in Asian/Pacific

Islanders, Houston

 

1995 Planning Committee, National Symposium on Refugees, San

Antonio

 

 

AWARDS

2000 Above and Beyond Award, Parkland Memorial Hospital

 

1998 Certificate of Appreciation, Cambodian-American

Association of Dallas

 

1996 Outstanding Contribution, Asian-American Advisory

Committee of Dallas Independent School District

 

1995 Above and Beyond Award, Parkland Memorial Hospital

 

 

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

American Anthropological Association

Society for Applied Anthropology 

Committee on Refugee Issues

 

 

LANGUAGES

Khmer

French