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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
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