Laura L . Heinemann, PhD
Director, Undergraduate Programs in Medical Anthropology and Cultural Anthropology
Associate Professor
Contact
College of Arts and Sciences
Medical Humanities
Cultural & Social Studies
Global Health Equity Minor
Medical Anthropology
CRHL - Creighton Hall/Administration Building - 439
Laura L . Heinemann, PhD
Director, Undergraduate Programs in Medical Anthropology and Cultural Anthropology
Associate Professor
Curriculum Vitae
Teaching Interests
- Medical Anthropology
Research Focus
Care, Caregiving, and Care Work; Kinship and Domestic Life; Health Policy, Systems, and Practice; Food Systems, Foodways, and Community Health; North America, U.S. Midwest, Haiti; Migration, Displacement, and Health; Community-Based Participatory Action ResearchDepartment
Cultural and Social Studies
Position
Associate Professor
Books
- 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, The Crux of Refugee Resettlement 2018
- 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
- Transplanting Care
Heinemann Laura L, Series [Book Chapter] 2016 - Transplanting Care
Heinemann Laura L, Intro [Book Chapter] 2016 - Heinemann Laura L, Transplanting Kinship 2011
Publications
- 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, 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, 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
Presentations
- "Soul Doctors: The Role of Hospital Chaplains in Restoring Faith." Co-presentation with Nasreen Quadri, Elizabeth Kitamura, and Allison Benjamin. 2023 Race, Religion & Social Justice Conference at Tri-Faith Commons in Omaha, Nebraska. June 2023. 2023
- "Learning with COVID on Campus: Lessons on Community Participation & Interdisciplinary Team Research." Co-authors Alexander Roedlach, Alissa Jeffrey, Anna Kotula (and in collaboration with Monica White, Cathy Fox, Jamaica Dulluog, Megan Loh, Chloe Cassens, Thea Pflum, and Angela Maynard). First author and co-presented with Alissa Jeffrey. 2022 Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association (AAA), Seattle, Washington. November 2022. 2022
- Ad-Hoc Care: Improvising Through Health Care Transitions. Poster Presentation co-authored and co-presented with Bridget Backer, Creighton undergraduate student. 2022 Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meeting, Virtual Meeting, hosted in Norfolk, VA. -0001
- Centering Culture and Community at the Bedside. Presentation at 2021 Clarkson College Alumni Association Continuing Education Event, Ethics Beyond Clinical that Impact Health Care, Omaha, NE. Co-authors/Co-presenters: LaShaune Johnson, PhD, Associate Professor at Creighton University, and Emily Sierra, MPH Student at University of Pittsburgh. -0001
- Changes Prior to SUDEP: What Caretakers Noticed. Poster and Platform Abstract submitted to 2021 American Epilepsy Society Annual Meeting by First/Presenting Author Kristina Simeone, PhD. Co-authors: Dawn Martnez, Shruthi Iyer, Shelby Herr, Cameron Booth, Laura Heinemann, Pierce Greenberg, Samantha Draves, Stephanie Matthews, and Timothy Simeone. -0001
- Self-Care Dilemmas: Everyday Patchworking under the Chronic Conditions of Structural Abandonment. Single-Author Paper for organized session, Stratified Responsibility: Politics and Ethics of Chronicity. 2021 Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association (AAA), Baltimore, MD. -0001
- Community Engaged Research for Impact. (Co-panelist with LaShaune Johnson, PhD, Associate Professor at Creighton University and April Dixon, MPH, First Lady of Immanuel Community Church and Health Educator, Creighton School of Medicine) 2021 Webinar, Sponsored by the American Sociological Association and the Section on Sociological Practice and Public Sociology. -0001
- He Just Has No One: An Ethnographic Examination of Loneliness and Healthcare as Encountered by One Low-Income Older Adult Without Close Living Kin. (Single-Author Paper for organized session, Loneliness in the Context of Aging Before and During COVID-19.) 2021 Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meeting, Virtual Meeting, hosted in Norfolk, VA. -0001
- Connecting Anthropology through Practice, Part I and Part II. (Panel Contributor along with Elissa Faro, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine; Gemmae Fix, VA & Boston University School of Medicine; Ellen Rubinstein, NDSU; Marian Thorpe, Princeton University; Peter Taber, University of Utah.) 2021 Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meeting, Virtual Meeting, hosted in Norfolk, VA. -0001
- Weaving the Kitchen Cupboard into Health Care Practice: Lessons from Ethnographic Observations of Home Health Care in the U.S. Midwest Co-presented with undergraduate student Bridget Backer. 2020 Human/e Health & Healthcare Symposium, Creighton University, Omaha, NE. -0001
Other
Traveling Mercies on the Road to Health: Journey-Mapping after Acute Care
Traveling Mercies on the Road to Health: Journey-Mapping after Acute Care
Awards
- Outstanding Teacher of the Week
Delta Zeta, Theta Eta Chapter, Creighton University - Professional Excellence in Major Advising
College of Arts and Sciences Dean - IGGY Award
Awarded for outstanding freshman mentors, counselors, advocates and role models
Creighton University - Distinction - Preliminary Examinations in Socio-Cultural Anthropology
University of Michigan - Rackham Regents Fellowship
University of Michigan Rackham School of Graduate Studies