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Laura L . Heinemann, PhD

Director, Undergraduate Programs in Medical Anthropology and Cultural Anthropology

Associate Professor

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Contact

LauraHeinemann@creighton.edu
College of Arts and Sciences
Medical Humanities
Cultural & Social Studies
Global Health Equity Minor
Medical Anthropology
Cultural Anthropology

Laura L . Heinemann, PhD

Director, Undergraduate Programs in Medical Anthropology and Cultural Anthropology

Associate Professor

Laura L. Heinemann, PhD, MSW, MA is an Associate Professor of Medical Anthropology in the Department of Cultural and Social Studies at Creighton University, with a secondary appointment in the Department of Medical Humanities at Creighton’s School of Medicine. She also is the director of undergraduate programs in anthropology at Creighton. Her research foci include caregiving, care work, and interdependence; health and healthcare systems and practices; kinship and domestic life; food and community health; and migration, displacement, and health. Dr. Heinemann holds Master’s degrees in Social Work and in Anthropology, and a Joint PhD in Social Work and Anthropology, all from University of Michigan.

Teaching Interests

  • Medical Anthropology

Research Focus

Caregiving, Care Work, and Kinship; Health Policy, Systems, and Practice; Community Health; North America, U.S. Midwest

Department

Cultural and Social Studies

Position

Associate Professor

Books

  • Covid’s Chronicities
    Heinemann Laura L., Rubinstein Ellen B., ‘We’re the health care in the town, pretty much [Book Chapter] 2025
  • Transplanting Care
    Heinemann Laura L, Troubled Relations and Former Lives [Book Chapter] 2019
  • Transplanting Care
    Heinemann Laura L, Early Navigations [Book Chapter] 2019
  • Transplanting Care
    Heinemann Laura L, References [Book Chapter] 2019
  • Transplanting Care
    Heinemann Laura L, When Patients Are Also Caregivers [Book Chapter] 2019
  • Transplanting Care
    Heinemann Laura L, Conclusion [Book Chapter] 2019
  • Transplanting Care
    Heinemann Laura L, Precarity and Policy [Book Chapter] 2019
  • Transplanting Care
    Heinemann Laura L, Revealing and Reframing Kinship and Care [Book Chapter] 2019
  • Transplanting Care
    Heinemann Laura L, Frontmatter [Book Chapter] 2019
  • Transplanting Care
    Heinemann Laura L, Introduction [Book Chapter] 2019
  • Transplanting Care
    Heinemann Laura L, Prologue [Book Chapter] 2019
  • Transplanting Care
    Heinemann Laura L, Index [Book Chapter] 2019
  • Transplanting Care
    Heinemann Laura L, Preface [Book Chapter] 2019
  • Transplanting Care
    Heinemann Laura L, Transformations in Home Life and High-Tech Health Care [Book Chapter] 2019
  • Transplanting Care
    Heinemann Laura L, Conscripting Caregivers’ Health (Or, When Caregivers Are Patients, Too) [Book Chapter] 2019
  • Transplanting Care
    Heinemann Laura L, Notes [Book Chapter] 2019
  • Transplanting Care
    Heinemann Laura L, Acknowledgments [Book Chapter] 2019
  • Adhikari Surendra Bir, Rödlach Alexander, Willems Roos, Andrés Juana Domingo, Chase Liana, Desai Chaitri, Evans Margaret, Halsouet Béatrice, Heinemann Laura l, Nelson Andrew, , The Crux of Refugee Resettlement 2018
  • Transplanting Care
    Heinemann Laura L, Series [Book Chapter] 2016
  • Transplanting Care
    Heinemann Laura L, Intro [Book Chapter] 2016
  • Transplanting Care
    Heinemann Laura L, About the Author [Book Chapter] 2016
  • Transplanting Care
    Heinemann Laura L, Available titles in the Critical Issues in Health and Medicine series [Book Chapter] 2016
  • Heinemann Laura L., Transplanting Care : Shifting Commitments in Health and Care in the United States 2016
  • Heinemann Laura L, Transplanting Kinship 2011

Publications

  • Innovation in aging
    Heinemann Laura, Johnson LaShaune, Co-Creating a Health Equity Journey: Participatory Action Research With Older Black Adults
    9:Supplement_2 2025
  • Human organization
    Koempel Annie, Rubinstein Ellen B., Heinemann Laura L., Minding the gaps in frayed systems of health and care, p. 1 - 5 2025
  • Human organization
    Rubinstein Ellen B., Wanner Hailey M., DuPont Emma G., Bergman Amanda J., Maack Brody J., Heinemann Laura L., “We do a lot more than put pills in a bottle…”: Independent community pharmacists and the business of US healthcare, p. 1 - 13 2025
  • Catalyst (San Diego, Calif.)
    Heinemann Laura, “Back Then,” “Around Here,” and “Down the Road”: Proximity, Recursivity, and the Present Future in Transplantation
    10:1 2024
  • Journal of religion and health
    Quadri Nasreen S, Benjamin Allison, Kitamura Elizabeth, Heinemann Laura, Hassan Naima, Expanding Access through Representation and Inclusion in the Spiritual Care Workforce: An Exploratory Qualitative Examination of Insights from Somali Muslim Chaplains and their Educators in the USA 2024
  • Medical anthropology quarterly
    Rubinstein Ellen B, Heinemann Laura L, A crisis of confidence? Intervening in vaccine hesitancy in North Dakota 2024
  • Medicine Anthropology Theory
    Heinemann Laura L., Living with transplant
    7:2 2020
  • Medicine Anthropology Theory
    Heinemann Laura L., Accommodating care
    2:1 2015
  • Medical Anthropology Quarterly
    Heinemann Laura L., For the Sake of Others: Reciprocal Webs of Obligation and the Pursuit of Transplantation as a Caring Act
    28:1, p. 66 - 84 2014
  • Heinemann Laura L., Medical Anthropology at the Intersections. Histories, Activisms, and Futures 2013

Grants

  • Traveling Mercies on the Road to Health: Journey-Mapping after Acute Care/Sponsor: American Sociological Association

Awards

  • Rackham Regents Fellowship
    University of Michigan Rackham School of Graduate Studies