Alumni News: New Article from Crocker (2016)

Rebecca Crocker (Ph.D. UArizona, 2016), who currently serves as post-doctoral scholar in the UA Center for Border Health Disparities, is pleased to announce a new publication titled “Santos Remedios: How Mexican Immigrants Use Authoritative Healing Knowledge to Survive Migration,” which she co-authored with Dr. Patrisia Gonzales from Mexican American Studies and American Indian Studies. The article, in Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry, utilizes Brigitte Jordan’s theory of ‘‘authoritative knowledge’’ to show how and why Mexican immigrants’ ancestral and ecological-based healing knowledge travels with them through migration, arguing...