Academic Appointments

Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Florida, 2006-present

Affiliate Assistant Professor, Dept. of Behavioral Science and Community Health, College of Public Health and Health Professions, University of Florida, 2007-present

Faculty Affiliate, Center for Latin American Studies, University of Florida, 2006-present

Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Florida State University, 2003-2006

Research Associate, Center for Demography and Population Health, Florida State University, 2003-2006

Faculty Affiliate, Program in Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Florida State University, 2004-2006

Education

Postdoctoral Fellowship, W.K. Kellogg Community Health Scholar, 2002-03

Ph.D. in Anthropology, 2002

M.A. in Anthropology, 1998

  • University of Florida, Gainesville

Fulbright Scholar, 1996-97

B.A. in Anthropology, 1996, highest honors

  • University of Florida, Gainesville

Professional Interests

Biocultural approaches to health and human development; cultural dimensions of psychosocial stress; cardiovascular disease; race and human biological variation; ethnicity and racism; culture theory; social network analysis; research methods; medical anthropology; Caribbean (Puerto Rico) and United States

Fellowships and Grants

"Tsimane’ Amazonian Panel Study (TAPS): Data collection and PhD training, 2009-1014" (Ricardo Godoy, PI; Clarence C. Gravlee, William R. Leonard, Victoria Reyes-Garcia, Susan N. Tanner, Co-PIs), National Science Foundation, Cultural Anthropology Program, $1,214,870. Under review.

"Genetic ancestry, race, and health disparities: A biocultural approach" (Connie J. Mulligan, PI; Clarence C. Gravlee, Co-PI), National Science Foundation, Physical and Cultural Anthropology Programs, $425,249.

"Social and cultural context of racial inequalities in health" (Clarence C. Gravlee, PI; Christopher McCarty, Co-PI), National Science Foundation, Cultural Anthropology Program, $355,550, 2007-10.

"Center for Health Disparities Research: Epidemiologic and Cultural Dimensions" (R. Jay Turner, PI; Clarence C. Gravlee, Isaac W. Eberstein, Co-Investigators), Cornerstone Social Science Program Enhancement Grant, Florida State University, " $100,000, 2005-07

First Year Assistant Professor Award, Florida State University, $13,000, 2004

American Heart Association (AHA) Predoctoral Fellowship, Florida/Puerto Rico Affiliate, 2000-02

National Science Foundation (NSF) Dissertation Improvement Grant, $12,000, 2000-01

National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship, 1997-2000

Fulbright Graduate Fellowship, 1996-97

Honors and Awards

Fellow, Society for Applied Anthropology, 2007

Emerging Scholar, Understanding Race and Human Variation, Society for Medical Anthropology and American Anthropological Association, 2005

University Women’s Club Award for Outstanding Ph.D. Writing and Research, 2002

National Institutes of Health (NIH), Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research, Travel Stipend to Toward Higher Levels of Analysis: Progress and Promise in Research on Social and Cultural Dimensions of Health, June 27-28, 2000

Phi Beta Kappa, Early Induction (Junior Year), 1995

Publications

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

Gravlee, Clarence C., David P. Kennedy, Ricardo Godoy, and William R. Leonard. (2009). Methods for collecting panel data: What does cultural anthropology have to learn from other disciplines? Journal of Anthropological Research 65:in press.
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Gravlee, Clarence C. and Elizabeth Sweet. (2008). Race, ethnicity, and racism in medical anthropology, 1977-2002. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 22(1):27-51.
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Godoy, R., Goodman, E., Gravlee, C. C., Levins, R., Seyfried, C., Caram, M., et al. (2007). Blood pressure and hypertension in an American colony (Puerto Rico) and on the USA mainland compared, 1886-1930. Economics & Human Biology 5(2), 255-279.
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Zenk, S. N., A. J. Schulz, G. Mentz, J. S. House, C. C. Gravlee, P. Y. Miranda, P. Miller, and S. Kannan. (2007). Inter-rater and test-retest reliability: Methods and results for the neighborhood observational checklist. Health & Place 13:452-465.
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Gravlee, Clarence C., Shannon N. Zenk, Sachiko Woods, Zachary Rowe, and Amy J. Schulz. (2006). Handheld computers for systematic observation of the social and physical environment. Field Methods 18(4):382-397.
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Schulz, Amy J., Clarence C. Gravlee, David R. Williams, Barbara A. Israel, Zachary Rowe. (2006). Discrimination, symptoms of depression, and self-rated health among African American women in Detroit: Results from a longitudinal analysis. American Journal of Public Health 96(6):1265-1270.
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Gravlee, Clarence C., William W. Dressler, and H. Russell Bernard. (2005). Skin color, social classification, and blood pressure in Puerto Rico. American Journal of Public Health 95(12):2191-2197.
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Dressler, William W., Kathryn S. Oths, and Clarence C. Gravlee. Race and ethnicity in public health research: Models to explain health disparities. Annual Review of Anthropology 34:231-252.
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Gravlee, Clarence C. (2005) Ethnic classification in southeastern Puerto Rico: The cultural model of "color." Social Forces 83(3):949-970.
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Gravlee, Clarence C. and William W. Dressler. (2005). Skin pigmentation, self-perceived color, and arterial blood pressure in Puerto Rico. American Journal of Human Biology 17(2):195-206.
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Gravlee, Clarence C., H. Russell Bernard, and William R. Leonard (2003).  Boas’s Changes in Bodily Form: The immigrant study, cranial plasticity, and Boas’s physical anthropology. American Anthropologist 105(2):326-332.
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Gravlee, Clarence C., H. Russell Bernard, and William R. Leonard (2003). Heredity, environment, and cranial form: a re-analysis of Boas's immigrant data. American Anthropologist 105(1):125-138.
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Gravlee, Clarence C. (2002). Mobile computer-assisted personal interviewing (MCAPI) with handheld computers: the Entryware™ system 3.0. Field Methods 14(3):322-336.
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Book Chapters and Encylopedia Articles

Gravlee, Clarence C. (2008). Life Expectancy. In: Encyclopedia of Race and Racism, edited by John H. Moore (Vol. 2, pp. 265-269). Detroit: MacMillan Reference USA.

Brody, Howard, Linda M. Hunt, and Clarence C. Gravlee. (Under review). Making sense of race. In Rethinking inequalities and differences in medicine, edited by M. Ramsey and L. R. Churchill.

Abstracts and Papers Presented

Race and health: Genes, environment, and the meaning of biology. American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, CA, Nov. 19–23, 2008.

Capturing social context with personal network visualization (second author, with Douglas A. Monroe and Christopher McCarty). American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, CA, Nov. 19–23, 2008.

Cultural consensus theory and intracultural variation: A systematic review, 1986–2007 (second author, with Eric Kightley and Brian P. Tyler). American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, CA, Nov. 19–23, 2008.

Meaning and measurement of race in health research: Lessons from hypertension in the African Diaspora. Society for Applied Anthropology and Society for Medical Anthropology, Memphis, TN, March 26–29, 2008.

Does culture matter? Social support and mental health in Puerto Rico (second author, with Brian P. Tyler). Society for Applied Anthropology and Society for Medical Anthropology, Memphis, TN, March 26–29, 2008.

How race becomes biology: embodiment of racial inequalities. American Anthropological Association, Washington, DC, Nov. 28–Dec. 2, 2007

Mode effects in the collection of pile sorts: face-to-face versus Internet-mediated data collection (first author, with Chad R. Maxwell, Aryeh Jacobsohn, Veronica McClain, and H. Russell Bernard. Society for Anthropological Sciences, San Antonio, TX, Feb. 21-23, 2006.

Meaning, social structure, and individual well-being in Puerto Rico. American Anthropological Association, San Jose, CA, Nov. 14-19, 2006.

Psychophysiologic correlates of cultural consonance in urban Puerto Rico. Society for Applied Anthropology and Society for Medical Anthropology, Vancouver, BC, March 28-April 2, 2006.

Operationalizing race as a cultural construct: Linking ethnography and measurement in health research (second author, with Linda Gordon). Society for Applied Anthropology and Society for Medical Anthropology, Vancouver, BC, March 28-April 2, 2006.

Testing the effects of eliciting free lists orally and over the Internet (first author, with H. Russell Bernard). Society for Cross-Cultural Research and Society for Anthropological Sciences, Savannah, GA, Feb. 23-25, 2006.

Race, ethnicity, and racism in medical anthropology and public health: Patterns, promises, and pitfalls. Invited session, Exploring the intersection of race, human variation and health, American Anthropological Association, Washington, DC, Nov. 30-Dec. 4, 2005.

An empirical evaluation of oral versus written free list elicitation. (first author, with H. Russell Bernard). Society for Applied Anthropology, Santa Fe, NM, April 5-10, 2005.

Handheld computers for systematic observation of the social and physical environment: The Neighborhood Observational Checklist (first author, with S.N. Zenk, S. Woods, Z. Rowe, and A.J. Schulz). American Public Health Association Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, Nov. 6-10, 2004.

Perceived discrimination, depression, and self-rated general health among African American women in Detroit: Longitudinal findings from the Eastside Village Health Workers Partnership (first author, with A.J. Schulz, D.R. Williams, B.A. Israel, and Z. Rowe). American Public Health Association Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, Nov. 6-10, 2004.

Race, ethnicity, and racism in medical anthropology, 1977-2002. Society for Applied Anthropology and Society for Medical Anthropology, Dallas, TX, March 30-April 4, 2004.

Operationalizing race in applied social science: emic and etic dimensions. Society for Applied Anthropology, Abstracts of the 2003 Annual Meeting, Portland, OR, March 19-23.

A personal network approach to measuring race and ethnicity (second author, with A. Wutich). Society for Applied Anthropology, Abstracts of the 2003 Annual Meeting, Portland, OR, March 19-23.

Operationalizing “race”: skin color and blood pressure in Puerto Rico. American Anthropological Association, Abstracts of the 101st Annual Meetings, New Orleans, LA, Nov. 20-24, 2002.

Genetic and environmental influences on cranial form: a re-analysis of Boas’s immigrant data. Human Biology Association, 27th Annual Meeting, Buffalo, NY, April 12-14, 2002. American Journal of Human Biology 14(1):111-2.

Skin color, blood pressure, and the contextual effect of culture. Society for Applied Anthropology, Abstracts of the 2002 Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, March 6-10, 2002.

Consensus and ambiguity in the cultural construction of ethnicity in Puerto Rico. American Anthropological Association, Abstracts of the 100th Annual Meetings, Washington, DC, Nov. 28-Dec 2, 2001.

Emics and etics of "race" and "ethnicity." American Anthropological Association, Abstracts of the 98th Annual Meetings, Chicago, IL, Nov. 17-21, 1999.

Speaking of "Ausländer": the ascription of ethnicity in Germany. American Anthropological Association, Abstracts of the 97th Annual Meetings, Philadelphia, PA, Dec. 2-6, 1998.

Black, white, other: the formation of ethnic and racial categories in the US. Society for Applied Anthropology, Abstracts of the 1998 Annual Meeting, San Juan, Puerto Rico, April 21-26, 1998.

Invited Lectures

Race, racism, and health: Historical continuities and current challenges. History of Science Society, University of Florida, Sept. 24, 2008.

Race, biology, and culture. Symposium talk, Reconciling views of human biological variation. Heather Edgar and Keith Hunley, organizers. University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, May 24-25, 2007.

How race becomes biology: social and cultural context of racial inequalities in health. Plenary address, Race, human variation, and disease: consensus and frontiers. American Anthropological Association, Airlie Center, Warrenton, VA, March 14-17.

Biology and blackness: Skin color and blood pressure in the African Diaspora. Cells to Society: The Center on Social Disparities and Health, Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University. Feb. 6, 2006.

Cultural construction of ethnicity in Puerto Rico and the conceptual status of “race.” Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Florida State University. Feb. 18, 2005.

Skin color and blood pressure in the African Diaspora: culture and biology. Center for Demography and Population Health, Florida State University, Sept. 10, 2004.

What’s race got to do with it? Skin color and blood pressure in the context of culture. Dept. of Anthropology, Northwestern University. May 23, 2003.

The role of race and ethnicity in medical social science: the view from anthropology. Dept. of Behavioral Science, University of Kentucky College of Medicine. Dec. 11, 2002.

Skin color, blood pressure, and the contextual effect of culture in Puerto Rico. Dept. of Anthropology and Latin American Studies Program, University of Kentucky. Dec. 10, 2002.

Color de Piel, Estatus Social, y Presión Arterial en el Sureste de Puerto Rico: Una Propuesta para una Investigación Doctoral. Prof. Marta Bustillo Hernández, Depto. de Ciencias Sociales, Escuela de Salud Pública, Universidad de Puerto Rico. Sept. 4, 2000.

,Deutschsein' und ,Ausländersein': Zwischenbericht einer Feldforschung über Ethnizität in Köln. Prof. Thomas Schweizer, Institut für Völkerkunde, Universität zu Köln, July 11, 1997.

Der Ethnizitätsbegriff in Deutschland und den Vereiningten Staaten. Prof. Thomas Schweizer, Institut für Völkerkunde, Universität zu Köln, November 17, 1996.

Invited Conferences

Rethinking race and science: biology, genes, and culture. School of Advanced Research, Advanced Seminar Series. John Hartigan, organizer. Santa Fe, NM, Spring 2010.

Reconciling views of human biological variation.  Heather Edgar and Keith Hunley, organizers.  University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, May 24-25, 2007.

Advancing biocultural perspectives in physical anthropology (funded by NSF Physical Anthropology Program).  Agustín Fuentes and Thomas McDade, organizers. University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN, Feb. 18-20, 2007.

Planning Conference for NSF Summer Workshops in Cultural Anthropology Research Methodologies. Stuart Plattner, organizer. Belmont Conference Center, Elkridge, MD, May 9-11, 2003.

Workshop on stability of methods for collecting, analyzing, and managing panel data. Ricardo Godoy and Robert Hunt, organizers. American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Cambridge, MA, March 26-28, 2003.

Academic Service

Member, Executive Program Committee, 107th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, 2007-08

Member, Faculty Search Committee, Department of Anthropology, University of Florida, 2007-08

Member, African American Studies Task Force, Florida State University, 2005

Co-chair, Faculty Search Committee, Department of Anthropology, Florida State University, 2004-05

Member, Graduate Affairs Committee, Department of Anthropology, Florida State University, 2003-06

Member, Curriculum Planning Committee, Department of Anthropology, Florida State University, 2004

Peer Reviewer, American Anthropologist, American Journal of Physical Anthropology, American Journal of Public Health, American Journal of Preventive Medicine, Annals of Human Biology, Comparative Studies in Society and History, Economics & Human Biology, Field Methods, Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies, Medical Anthropology Quarterly, Social Biology, Women & Health.

Graduate Student Representative, Curriculum Committee, Department of Anthropology, University of Florida, 1999-2000.

Professional Memberships

American Anthropological Association

American Public Health Association

Human Biology Association

Society for Applied Anthropology

International Network for Social Network Analysis

References

Available on request.