The 2021 Lab course (ANT345) will be “Social Networks and Dietary Patterns of Food Insecure Immigrant Latino Families in the Bronx.” 
Sponsored by the Lehman Lab for Social Analysis and Public Policy 

Food insecurity, inconsistent access to enough food to support active healthy lives for all household members at all times or the year, is of particular concern among Latino children in the U.S. Food insecurity is associated with deleterious nutritional patterns. Latino families may cope with food insecurity by tapping into social networks to gain support (e.g., information, food); however, little is known about these networks and how they influence food security and dietary patterns.

This course will be taught as an integrated component of a CUNY IRG grant entitled “Social Networks and Dietary Patterns of Food Insecure Immigrant Latino Families” with co-principal investigators Karen Flórez, Alyshia Gálvez, and Stephanie Rupp. The course will be co-taught by Joseph A. Torres-González, PhD student in Cultural Anthropology at the Graduate Center/CUNY, and engaged participation by investigators/professors Karen Flórez, Alyshia Gálvez and Stephanie Rupp. Students will learn hands-on ethnographic methods, an introduction to approaches in qualitative research in public health, coding and interview data-management, and field practice in these techniques.

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