Geraldine Moreno-Black
Professor, Anthropology
Phone: (541) 346-5113
Email: gmorenob@uoregon.edu
Geraldine Moreno-Black specializes in nutritional anthropology, biological anthropology, human ecology, and gender issues. She has recently done fieldwork in Northeast Thailand and Laos. In 2003, she co-authored a book titled The Lao: Gender, Power, and Livelihood with Carol Ireson-Doolittle. Other upcoming and recent publications include: “Young Women’s Experiences of Menstruation and Athletics” in Women’s Studies Quarterly, (forthcoming); “Thailand” in The Encyclopedia of Food, (2003); ‘Household Structure and Dietary Patterns in the Afro-Ecuadorian Highlands” in Food and Nutrition Bulletin, (2001); “Knowing, Gathering and Eating: Knowledge and Attitudes Concerning Wild Food in An Isan Village” in Ethnobiology, (2000); “In Times of Plenty and Times of Scarcity: Nondomesticated Food In Northeastern Thailand” in Ecology of Food and Nutrition,(2000). Professor Moreno-Black has been the recipient of awards from the National Geographic Society, The Wenner-Gren Foundation, Social Science Research Council and The Freeman Foundation. Her most recent project, funded by Fulbright Hayes Senior Scholar Research Award, researches the diet, growth and coping strategies of factory workers in Thailand. Publications related to this project appear in the journal: Ecology of Food and Nutrition (2007) and Practicing Anthropology (2008).
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