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Dr. E.J.F. (Emily) Yates-Doerr

Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
Programme group: Anthropology of Health, Care and the Body
Photographer: onbekend

Visiting address
  • Nieuwe Achtergracht 166
Postal address
  • Postbus 15509
    1001 NA Amsterdam
Contact details
  • Profile

    Research

    Emily Yates-Doerr (Ph.D. 2011, Anthropology, NYU) is Assistant Professor of Anthropology in the Health Care and the Body research group of the AISSR. She currently holds a Veni grant from the NWO for the project When Global Health Meets Local Development: A Case Study of the 'First 1000 Days of Life' Initiative in Guatemala. This study of global sustainabilty and maternal health has grown out of postdoctoral research on food security and doctoral research on epidemiological transitions in Latin America. Her book,  The Weight of the Obesity: Hunger and Global Health in Postwar Guatemala (UC Press, 2015) examines the emergence of the diagnostic category of obesity in the city of Xela. She was previously a postdoctoral fellow on Annemarie Mol's Eating Bodies project, and before this she was in the anthropology department at New York University. 

  • Publications

    2022

    • Valdez, N., Carney, M., Yates-Doerr, E., Saldaña-Tejeda, A., Hardin, J., Garth, H., Galvez, A., & Dickinson, M. (2022). Duoethnography as Transformative Praxis: Conversations about Nourishment and Coercion in the COVID-Era Academy. Feminist Anthropology, 3(1), 92-105. https://doi.org/10.1002/fea2.12085 [details]
    • Yates-Doerr, E. (2022). Bloodwork: Circulatory Disorders, Immunity, and the Scarring of Systems. Anthropology of Work Review, 43(2), 106-116. https://doi.org/10.1111/awr.12240 [details]

    2021

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    2018

    • Yates-Doerr, E. (2018). Translational competency: On the role of culture in obesity and interventions. Medicine Anthropology Theory, 5(4), 106-117. https://doi.org/10.17157/mat.5.4.579 [details]
    • Yates-Doerr, E. J. F. (Accepted/In press). Whose Global? Which Health? Unsettling Collaboration Through Careful Equivocation, American Anthropologist.

    2017

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    2013

    • Yates-Doerr, E. (2013). Complex carbohydrates: on the relevance of ethnography in nutrition education. In E-J. Abbots, & A. Lavis (Eds.), Why we eat, how we eat: contemporary encounters between foods and bodies (pp. 271-287). (Critical food studies). Farnham [etc.]: Ashgate. [details]
    • Yates-Doerr, E. (2013). The mismeasure of obesity. In M. McCullough, & J. Hardin (Eds.), Reconstructing obesity: the meaning of measures and the measure of meanings (pp. 49-70). (Food, nutrition, and culture; No. 2). New York, NY [etc.]: Berghahn Books. [details]

    2012

    2011

    • Mann, A., Mol, A., Satalkar, P., Savirani, A., Selim, N., Sur, M., & Yates-Doerr, E. (2011). Mixing methods, tasting fingers: notes on an ethnographic experiment. HAU : Journal of Ethnographic Theory, 1(1), 221-243. [details]
    • Yates-Doerr, E. (2011). Kinship: bodily betrayal: love and anger in the time of epigenetics. In F. E. Mascia-Lees (Ed.), A companion to the anthropology of the body and embodiment (pp. 292-306). (Blackwell companions to anthropology; No. 13). Oxford [etc.]: Wiley-Blackwell. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444340488.ch16 [details]

    2022

    2021

    • Yates-Doerr, E. J. F. (2021). Foreword. In L. Montesi, & M. Calestani (Eds.), Managing Chronicity in Unequal States: Ethnographic perspectives on caring (pp. xiii-xxi). (Embodying Inequalities. Perspectives from Medical Anthropology). UCL Press. https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781800080287

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    2017

    • Garcia-Meza, R., Solomons, N. W., & Yates-Doerr, E. (2017). Semantics of the Sustainable Development Goals 2015-2030 for nutrition: the connotation gained (or lost) in translation from English to Spanish. Annals of nutrition & metabolism, 71(Suppl. 2), 639. https://doi.org/10.1159/000480486 [details]
    • Yates-Doerr, E. (Author). (2017). Plastic Bodies: [Review of: E. Sanabria (2016) Plastic bodies : sex hormones and menstrual suppression in Brazil]. Web publication/site, Somatosphere. http://somatosphere.net/forumpost/plastic-bodies [details]

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    • Yates-Doerr, E. (2012). [Review of: M. Unnithan-Kumar, S. Tremayne (2011) Fatness and the maternal body: women's experiences of corporeality and the shaping of social policy]. Medische Antropologie, 24(1), 233-234. [details]

    2011

    2010

    2009

    • Yates-Doerr, E. (2009). [Review of: D.M. Nelson (2009) Reckoning: the ends of war in Guatemala]. E-misférica, 6(1). [details]

    Prize / grant

    • Yates-Doerr, E. (2018). Why Are So Many Guatemalans Migrating to the U.S.?. https://www.sapiens.org/news/best-of-sapiens-2018/
    • Yates-Doerr, E. J. F. (2017). Global Future Health: A Multi-Sited Ethnography of an Adaptive Intervention (ERC Starting Grant).
    • Yates-Doerr, E. (2016). Awarded “Honorable Mention” for book 'The weight of obesity: hunger and global health in postwar Guatemala'.
    • Yates-Doerr, E. (2015). Authors Imprint book designation of outstanding scholarship for 'The Weight of Obesity' University of California Press.
    • Yates-Doerr, E. J. F. (2014). When Global Health Meets Local Development: A Case Study of the ‘First 1000 Days of Life’ Intervention in Guatemala (NWO Veni Grant). https://www.nwo.nl/en/research-and-results/research-projects/i/96/12096.html
    • Yates-Doerr, E. J. F. (2012). Wenner-Gren Foundation Engaged Anthropology Grant.
    • Yates-Doerr, E. (2010). The Alex McIntosh Paper Prize, the Association for the Study of Food and Society.
    • Yates-Doerr, E. (2010). Dean’s Dissertation Writing Award, New York University: $30,000.
    • Yates-Doerr, E. (2010). The Rudolf Virchow Graduate Student Paper Award, Critical Anthropology of Global Health Caucus.
    • Yates-Doerr, E. (2010). The Charles Hughes Graduate Student Paper Prize, Society for Medical Anthropology.
    • Yates-Doerr, E. (2009). The Christine Wilson Graduate Student Paper Award, Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition.
    • Yates-Doerr, E. (2009). Fulbright Hays DDRA Dissertation Award: $30,000.
    • Yates-Doerr, E. (2008). Dissertation Fieldwork Grant, The Wenner-Gren Foundation: $25,000.
    • Yates-Doerr, E. (2007). The Doris M. Ohlsen Research Award for Latin American Scholarship, NYU: $5,000.
    • Yates-Doerr, E. (2006). Social Science Research Council / Ford Foundation Pre-dissertation Fellowship for International Collaboration: $5,000.
    • Yates-Doerr, E. (2006). Tinker Field Research Grant, Center for Latin American Studies NYU: $2,500.
    • Yates-Doerr, E. (2005). National Science Foundation Fellowship for Research Methods Training: $5,000.
    • Yates-Doerr, E. (2004). Henry M. MacCracken Award, New York University (five year award: 2004-2009), $250,000.

    Journal editor

    Talk / presentation

    • Yates-Doerr, E. (invited speaker) (7-9-2016). Invited Speaker “Food Entanglements with Life”, ERC/Wenner Gren Workshop, Oslo University.
    • Yates-Doerr, E. (invited speaker) (5-9-2016). Invited Speaker “Scoping the Future of Medical Anthropology”, Edinburgh University.
    • Yates-Doerr, E. (invited speaker) (14-1-2016). Invited Speaker, Center for Studies of Sensory Impairment, Aging, and Metabolism, Guatemala.
    • Yates-Doerr, E. J. F. (invited speaker) (9-12-2015). Invited Talk, University of Washington Research Program in Medical Anthropology and Global Health, University of Washington Research Program in Medical Anthropology and Global Health, Washington.
    • Yates-Doerr, E. J. F. (invited speaker) (12-11-2015). Invited lecture at Leiden University College, Leiden University College, Den Haag.
    • Yates-Doerr, E. J. F. (invited speaker) (30-10-2015). Invited Talk, Centro de Estudios y Documentación Latinamericanos, at Centro de Estudios y Documentación Latinamericanos, Amsterdam.
    • Yates-Doerr, E. J. F. (invited speaker) (3-10-2015). Invited Presenter, "International Workshop on the Politics of Non-Communicable Diseases in the Global South,", at King's college, London.
    • Yates-Doerr, E. J. F. (invited speaker) (2-10-2015). Invited Lecture, SOAS Food Forum, at SOAS Food Forum, London.
    • Yates-Doerr, E. J. F. (invited speaker) (3-3-2015). Invited Talk at EPICENTER, at: Aarhus University, Denmark, Aarhus.
    • Yates-Doerr, E. J. F. (invited speaker) (27-1-2015). Invited Talk at the Bremen NatureCultures Lab, Department of Anthropology and Culture Research, University of Bremen; Artec Sustainability Research Centre, Bremen. http://naturenkulturen.de/?page_id=534
    • Yates-Doerr, E. J. F. (invited speaker) (5-6-2014). Embodied Being, Environing World: Local Biologies and Local Ecologies in Global Health, Invited contributor at Maison des Sciences de L’Homme, Paris.
    • Yates-Doerr, E. J. F. (invited speaker) (1-5-2014). Invited Lecture at the Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity (UBVO), Lecture at The University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. http://www.oxfordobesity.org/
    • Yates-Doerr, E. J. F. (invited speaker) (17-1-2014). Invited Lecture for the Global Health Programme, Lecture at Maastricht University, Maastricht.

    Others

    • Yates-Doerr, E. J. F. (chair) (14-11-2018 - 18-11-2018). American Anthropological Association Meeting, San Jose. Panel Chair at: 'Ethnographies of Global Health: What Do “Following Methodologies” Entail?' (participating in a conference, workshop, ...).
    • Yates-Doerr, E. J. F. (chair) (14-11-2018 - 18-11-2018). American Anthropological Association Meeting, San Jose. Panel Chair at “Ethnographies of Global Health: What Do “Following Methodologies” Entail?” (participating in a conference, workshop, ...).
    • Yates-Doerr, E. J. F. (chair) (14-11-2018 - 18-11-2018). American Anthropological Association Meeting, San Jose. Panel chair at the late-breaking roundtable: 'Destabilizing Power and Asserting Praxis in Post-HAU Anthropology' (participating in a conference, workshop, ...).
    • Yates-Doerr, E. J. F. (organiser) (14-11-2018 - 18-11-2018). American Anthropological Association Meeting, San Jose. Co-organizer of Double Panel: 'Chronic Disaster: Reimagining Diet-Related Disease as Structural Violence' (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
    • Yates-Doerr, E. J. F. (organiser) (14-11-2018 - 18-11-2018). American Anthropological Association Meeting, San Jose. Roundtable co-organized: 'Medical Anthropology in a Digital Age' (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
    • Yates-Doerr, E. J. F. (organiser) (25-7-2018 - 28-7-2018). EASST 2018 Conference, Lancaster. Roundtable panel organizer: 'The Ethnographic Case: An Experiment in Publication' (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
    • Yates-Doerr, E. J. F. (organiser) (13-6-2018 - 16-6-2018). 'The Agroecological Prospect: The Politics of Integrating Food and Farming with Values and the Land': Association of the Study of Food and Society, Annual Meeting, Madison. “Working with the senses: Toward a Critical Politics of Food Science.” Roundtable Co-Organizer (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
    • Yates-Doerr, E. J. F. (organiser) (19-4-2018 - 21-4-2018). 'Displacements' Society for Cultural Anthropology Annual Meeting (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
    • Yates-Doerr, E. J. F. (organiser) (6-4-2018 - 8-4-2018). Radial Imagination, Corvallis. “Reimagining Discovery.” Roundtable Co-Organizer (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
    • Yates-Doerr, E. J. F. (organiser) (1-9-2017). Panel "Eating Beside the Human" at Society for the Social Study of Science (4S) annual meeting, Boston. Panel “Eating Beside the Human” (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
    • Yates-Doerr, E. J. F. (organiser) (23-6-2017). International workshop: Caring for What?, Amsterdam (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
    • Yates-Doerr, E. J. F. (participant) (30-11-2015). An international roundtable with 4 speakers (AISSR-UvA), Amsterdam. Organizer and speaker at workshop: In the Event of Development: Evaluation, accountability and the mixing of methods (participating in a conference, workshop, ...).
    • Yates-Doerr, E. J. F. (participant) (9-9-2015). at: MAGic2015 (EASA Medical Anthropology Network and RAI Medical Anthropology Committee), Anthropology and Global Health, Sussex. Panel Organizer, "Differences that Matter: Inequalities in Global Health" (participating in a conference, workshop, ...).
    • Yates-Doerr, E. J. F. (participant) (1-7-2015). An international workshop with 3 speakers (AISSR-UvA), Amsterdam. Organizer and speaker at workshop: Corporations and Incorporations (Writings on Economics and Food) (participating in a conference, workshop, ...).
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