Education:
B.A., The George Washington University;
M.A., Georgetown University;
Ph.D., Harvard University
Jessica Mulligan
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
Holleran Center for Community Action and Public Policy
With Connecticut College: 2008-2010
Specializations:
- Medical anthropology
- Health policy
- Latin America
- Political and economic anthropology
- Community learning
Jessica Mulligan was with Connecticut College as a Mellon postdoctoral fellow with the Holleran Center for Community Action and Public Policy from 2008-2010.
Her previous teaching experience was as a visiting assistant professor of anthropology at Brown University and as a lecturer at Harvard University.
At Connecticut College, she taught the "Junior Seminar in Community Learning" and the gateway course on "Public Policy and Social Ethics." Students in her courses have undertaken a wide range of community engagement projects including organizing a walk to raise money for a homeless shelter, surveying patients at a Community Health Center, and conducting creative journaling courses at a local women´s center.
At Connecticut College, her research was focused on health disparities, access to care in New London, collaborative research methods, and immigration. In collaboration with anthropologists at other institutions and with help from Connecticut College students, Jessica contributed to a blog on immigration and health. Her other research interests include managed care, health reform, and health policy in Puerto Rico.
She is currently working on a book manuscript titled "Unmanageable Care: regulation and daily life at an HMO in Puerto Rico." This timely ethnography is based on over two years of participant observation at a health insurance plan. Through extensive interview excerpts and first-hand observations, the book offers workers´ and patients´ perspectives on how managed care changed the health system in Puerto Rico.
An article from this research project was recently accepted for publication at the peer-refereed journal Medical Anthropology. The article, "It Gets Better If You Do: Measures of Quality Care in Puerto Rico," is tentatively scheduled for publication in issue 29.3 in August 2010.
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