Lisa Handwerker, PhD, MPH Faculty Profile

Lisa  Handwerker, PhD, MPH

Lecturer

Department of Anthropology, Geography & Environmental Studies

EDUCATION

Ph.D. University of California, San Francisco and Berkeley, Joint Medical Anthropology Program

Doctoral Thesis:The Hen that Can't Lay An Egg (Bu Xia Dan De Mu Ji): The Stigmatization of Female Infertility in Late Twentieth Century People's Republic of China

M.P.H. University of California, Berkeley, School of Public Health, Department of Social and Administrative Health Sciences (SAHS),

B.A. Oberlin College Ohio, Double Major: Women's Studies and Anthropology,

Emory University, Georgia, Liberal Arts,

CERTIFICATION AND SPECIAL TRAININGS

Vlogy Conversation Project program, “Training for Advance Care Planning Advocates, Alameda-Contra Costa Medical Association, February 2015.

Conflict Mediation and Resolution Workshop, Conciliatory Forum of Oakland,

Conflict Mediator Training and Certificate, 40-hour, 2002.

Pregnancy Labor Coach Training, Highland Hospital Volunteer Program, 1993.

Berkeley Free Clinic ,Volunteer Medic, Berkeley, CA 1984-1986.

PUBLICATION AWARDS

Infertility Around the Globe: New thinking on Childlessness, Gender, and New

Reproductive Technologies edited by Marcia C. Inhorn and Frank van Balen, UC Press, 2002, was awarded the Most Notable Recent Edited Collection Book Prize in 2003 by the Council on Anthropology and Reproduction (CAR) of the Society for Medical Anthropology (SMA). My published chapter is: “The Politics of Baby- Making in Modern China: Reproductive Technologies and the “New” Eugenics.”

Pragmatic Women and Body Politics edited by Margaret Lock and Patricia Kaufert, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1998 was awarded “Most Notable Recent Edited Collection Book Prize” by CAR of Society for Medical Anthropology in 2002. My published chapter is: "The Consequences of Modernity for Childless Women in

Contemporary China.”

FELLOWSHIPS

California Institute of Integral Studies, Grant for Faculty Support for conference attendance 1996.

University of California, San Francisco, Humanities Dissertation Write-up Fellowship 1992-3

Soroptomist International Award, Dissertation Write‑up 1991-2

University of California, San Francisco, Equipment Grants 1991-3

Fulbright‑Hays Doctoral Dissertation Award, "The Hen that Can't Lay An Egg (Bu Xia Dan De Mu Ji): The Social Significance of Infertility in Beijing, China"; January 1990-1

Committee on Scholarly Communication with the People's Republic of China (CSCPRC), Dissertation Fieldwork; 1990‑1991

National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Award (#BNS89-13347); 1990-1

Wenner-Gren Anthropological Association Dissertation Fund; 1990‑91

Association for Women in Science, Pre-doctoral Award; 1990

Oberlin College Graduate Student Alumni Award; 1988‑89

UCB Center for Chinese Studies, Conference Funds; 1988, 1992

UC San Francisco Regents Fellowship; 1987‑88

Foreign Language Area Fellowship (FLAS),

Advanced Chinese Language Classes at Beijing University, Beijing, China 1986.

TEACHING AND ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

Lecturer, CSU Vlogy (formerly CSU Hayward), Departments of Human Development and Women’s Studies, AGES (formerly Anthropology), Health Sciences, and Public Administration. Classes include: Medical Anthropology, Human Development and Interaction, Senior Group Process including Conflict Mediation and Resolution Training; Women In Cross-cultural Perspective, Modern China, Social Theory, Human Sexuality in Anthropological Perspective, Intro to Anthropology, Senior Research Seminar, Socio-cultural Anthropology, Multi-cultural Issues in Health, Applied Anthropology, Adult Human Development, Life Span, Socio-Cultural Development, Anthropology in the Modern World, Qualitative Research Methods, Child Development etc; In addition to developing syllabi and in person classroom teaching, I have taught online courses for 12 years. 1999-ongoing.

Part-time Faculty, California College of Arts (CCA), Critical Studies Dept, Anthropology of the Body, Cross-Cultural Health Methods, Research and Theories Anthropology of Food 2007-2009.

Visiting Scholar, UC Berkeley, Institute for Study of Social Change, January 1998-2004.