Employment History

8/23/06 -     Professor, University of Connecticut, Department of Anthropology
1997-2006   Associate Professor, University of Connecticut, Department of Anthropology
1991-1996   Assistant Professor, University of Connecticut, Department of Anthropology
1990-1991   Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of California at Los Angeles, School of Public Health
1989-1990   Lecturer, University of California at Los Angeles, School of Public Health
1988-1990   Staff Research Associate, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, School of Medicine and 
                  Jonsson Cancer Center, Division of Cancer Control, University of California at Los Angeles

Education

1993   Ph.D. Anthropology. State University of New York, Buffalo, New York. 
Dissertation: The Socio-Cultural Context of Teenage Childbearing Among Hispanic Adolescents in Los Angeles. 
(Advisor: Ann. McElroy, Ph.D.) 

1988   Dr.P.H. Public Health. University of California, Los Angeles, California. 
Dissertation: Pregnancy and Childbirth Among Mexican Origin Teenagers in Los Angeles. 
(Advisor: Susan C.M. Scrimshaw, Ph.D.) 

1981   M.P.H. Public Health. University of California, Los Angeles. 

1977   M.A. Anthropology. State University of New York, Buffalo. 

1973   B.A. Anthropology. Minor Psychology. University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana. 
 

Major Research Interests

Anthropology: medical anthropology, ethnomedicine,  human reproduction, population, gender, political economy  

Ethnology: ethnic minorities in the United States, Latin America, Amazonia, India, Philippines 

Methodology: applications of qualitative and quantitative research methods 

Public Health: health disparities, syndemics theory, maternal and child health, sexual and reproductive health, youth risk-taking behavior, HIV/AIDS and STIs, international health 
 

Publications

Journal Articles

Singer, Merrill C., Pamela I. Erickson, Louise Badiane, Rosemary Diaz, Dugeidy Ortiz, traci Abraham, and Anna Marie Nicolaysen   2006.  Syndemics, Sex, and the City: understanding Sexually Transmitted Diseases in Social and Cultural Context. Social Science and Medicine 63(8):2010-2021.

Kaplan, Celia P., Merrill Eisenberg, Pamela I. Erickson, Lori Crane, and Susan Duffy   2005.  Barriers to Breast Abnormality Follow-up: Minority, Low-Income Patients' and Their Providers' Views. Ethnicity and Disease 15(4):720-726.

Kaplan, Celia P., Pamela I. Erickson, and María Juarez-Reyes  2002.  Acculturation, Gender Role Orientation, and Reproductive Risk-Taking Behavior among Latina Adolescent Family Planning Clients. Journal of Adolescent Research 17(2):103-122. 

Kaplan, Celia P., Pamela I. Erickson, Susan L, Stewart, and Lori A. Crane   2001.  Young Latinas and Abortion: The Role of Cultural Factors, Reproductive Behavior, and Alternative Roles to Motherhood.  Health Care for Women International 22(7):667-68.

Erickson, Pamela I. and Celia P. Kaplan  2000.  Maximizing Qualitative Responses About Smoking in Structured Interviews.  Qualitative Health Research  10(6):829-840. 

Erickson, Pamela I.  1998-99.  Cultural Factors Affecting the Negotiation of First Sexual Intercourse among Latina Adolescent Mothers. International Quarterly of Community Health Education 18(1):121-137. , 1998-99. 

Bastani, Roshan, Pamela I. Erickson, Alfred Marcus, Annette E. Maxwell, Frank J. Capell, Howard Freeman, and Kang X. Yan   1996.  AIDS-Related Attitudes and Risk Behaviors: A Survey of a Random Sample of California Heterosexuals. Preventive Medicine 25:105-117. 

Devin, Robin B. and Pamela I. Erickson,  1996.  The Influence of Male Care Givers on Child Health in Rural Haiti.  Social Science and Medicine  43(4): 479-488. 

Erickson, Pamela I.   1996.  Contraceptive Methods: Do Hispanic Adolescents and Their Family Planning Care Providers Think about Contraceptive Methods the Same Way? Medical Anthropology 17(1):65-82.

Erickson, Pamela I., Roshan Bastani, Annette E. Maxwell, Alfred C. Marcus, Frank J. Capell, and Kang X. Yan, 1995.  The Prevalence of Anal Sex Among Heterosexuals in California and Its Relationship to Other AIDS Risk Behaviors. AIDS Education and Prevention 7(6):477-493. 

Erickson, Pamela I.   1994. Lessons from a Repeat Pregnancy Prevention Program for Hispanic Teen Mothers in East Los Angeles. Family Planning Perspectives 26(4):174-178. 

Erickson, Pamela I. and Andrea J. Rapkin  1991.  Unwanted Sexual Experiences Among Middle and High School Students. Journal of Adolescent Health Care 12(4):319-325. 

Rapkin, Andrea J. and Pamela I. Erickson  1990.  Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome: Ethnic Differences in Knowledge and Risk Factors among Women in an Urban Family Planning Clinic.  AIDS 4(9):889-899. 

Moore, Dianne S. and Pamela I. Erickson  1985.   Age, Gender and Ethnic Differences in Sexual and Contraceptive Knowledge, Attitudes and Behavior. Journal of Family and Community Health  8(3):38-51. 

Moore, Dianne S., Pamela I. Erickson, and Margaret Wurgel  1984.  Adolescent Pregnancy and Parenting: the Role of the Nurse,. Topics in Clinical Nursing  1:72-82.  

Erickson, Pamela I. and Stephen Beckerman   1975.  Population Determinants in the Andaman Islands. Mankind 10(2):105-107. 

Books

Erickson, Pamela I.  1998.  Latina Adolescent Childbearing in East Los Angeles. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1998. 

Book Chapters

Erickson, Pamela I.   2006.  The Role of Romantic Love in Sexual Initiation and the Transition to Parenthood among Immigrant and U.S.-Born Latino Youth in East Los Angeles. In Jennifer S. Hirsch and Holly Wardlow (Eds.), Modern Loves. The Anthropology of Romantic Courtship and Companionate Marriage.  Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, pp. 118-134.

Erickson, Pamela I.  2004. The Waorani.  In Carol R. Ember and Melvin Ember (Eds.), The Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender, Volume II.  New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, pp. 947-955.

Erickson, Pamela I.   2003.  Cultural Factors Affecting the Negotiation of First Sexual Intercourse among Latina Adolescent Mothers.  In M. Idalí Torres and George P. Cernada (Eds.), Sexual and Reproductive Health Promotion in Latino Populations.  Parteras, Promotoras, y Poetas. Case Studies across the Americas. Amityville, NY: Baywood Publishing Company, pp. 63-79.

Logback, Judy, Luci L. Fernandes, Pamela I. Erickson, Michelle Cote, and Heather Lloyd   2002.  Economic Alternatives Protect the Amazon Rainforest in Ecuador.  In John R. Stepp, Felice S. Wyndham, and Rebecca Zarge (Eds.), Ethnobiology and Biocultural Diversity: Proceedings of the Seventh International Congress of Ethnobiology.  Athens, GA: The International Society of Ethnobiology, pp. 123-136. 

Erickson, Pamela I. and Celia P. Kaplan   1998.  Latinas and Abortion.  In Linda J. Beckman and S. Marie Harvey (Eds.),The New Civil War: The Psychology, Culture, and Politics of Abortion,. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association, pp. 133-155.

Faculty of the UCLA School of Public Health, 50 Simple Things You Can Do to Save Your Life, Berkeley: Earth Works Press, 1992. (Contributor) 

Popular Media

Erickson, Pam    Love Sustains Young Mothers - So Should Society.  The Hartford Courant, February 14, 2000. 

Working Papers and Conference Proceedings

Erickson, Pamela I.    1990.  Chapter 2. Improving the Use of Perinatal Services among Latinas in Los Angeles County and Chapter 3. Combating School-Age Pregnancy among Latinos in Los Angeles. Tomás Rivera Center Working Papers and Task Force Report on Improving the Delivery of Health and Social Services to Latina Immigrant Women and Children in Los Angeles County. Tomás Rivera Center and the Ford Foundation, 1990. 

Erickson, Pamela I., Susan C.M. Scrimshaw, and Dianne S. Moore  1986. Teen/Adult Differences in Knowledge of Birth, Anxiety about Labor and Delivery, and Birth Outcome Among Mexican Women in Los Angeles. Proceedings of the 21st International Congress of the Confederation of Midwives, 1986. 

Erickson, Pamela I. and Susan C.M. Scrimshaw  1985-86.  Contraceptive Knowledge and Intentions Among Latina Teenagers Experiencing Their First Birth. Los Angeles: UCLA Institute for Social Science Research, Working Papers in the Social Sciences, Vol. 1, No. 1. 

Moore, Dianne S., Margaret Wurgel and Pamela I. Erickson   1984.  Male and Female Sexual and Contraceptive Knowledge, Attitudes and Behaviors of 13-19 Year Old Caucasians, Blacks, Hispanics and Asians Living in Los Angeles, U.S.A., Proceedings of the International Confederation of Midwives, 20th Congress, Sydney, Australia, 1984, pp. 440-448. 

Book Reviews

Erickson, Pamela I.   2002.  Review of: Integrating Behavioral and Social Sciences With Public Health, by Neil Schneiderman, Marjorie A. Speers, Julia M. Silva, Henry Tome, and Jacquelyn H. Gentry, eds. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 16(2):249-250.

Erickson, Pamela I.    1997.  Review of: Illegitimacy and Social Structures: Cross-cultural Perspectives on Nonmarital Birth, by Lewellyn Hendrix. Westport CT: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1996. Contemporary Sociology 26(5): 608. 

In Press

Erickson, Pamela I.  Revenge, Bride Capture, and Gender Strategies for Survival among the Waorani.  In Stephen J. Beckerman and Paul Valentine (Eds.), Revenge in Amazonia.  University of Florida Press.

Erickson, Pamela I. and Marcia Mayfield (Eds.), Gender, Sexuality, and Sexual and Reproductive Health among Filipino Youth: Research-Based Interventions for Male Involvement. (Book length, on line publication of EngenderHealth, New York, http://www.engenderhealth.org/)

Submitted

Erickson, Pamela I. and Ann M. Cheney.  Silicone Seduction: Are Cosmetic Breast Implants Killer Commodities?  In Merrill Singer and Hans Baer (Eds.), Killer Commodities: A Critical Anthropological Examination of Corporate Products and Public Health. (under review, AltaMira Press)

Singer, Merrill and Pamela I. Erickson.  Dangerous Toys for Girls and Boys. In Merrill Singer and Hans Baer (Eds.), Killer Commodities: A Critical Anthropological Examination of Corporate Products and Public Health. (under review, AltaMira Press)
 

Extramural Grants

2003-2008
Centers for Disease Control, Division of Reproductive Health, Principal Investigator. Communication and Negotiation about Barrier Contraceptive Use among Young Adults at Risk. 

2001-2004
Andrew W, Mellon Foundation, Subcontract with EngenderHealth (formerly AVSC International), Partnerships in Applied Research to Improve Service Delivery: A Strategic Alliance between AVSC International and the University of Connecticut Medical Anthropology Program. 

2000-2002
National Science Foundation, Co-Investigator with Stephen Beckerman (PSU), James Boster (UCONN), and James Yost (unaffiliated), Reproduction, Kinship, and Coalitional Violence. 

1994-1999
National Institute of Health and Child Development (NICHD), Socio-Cultural Context of Hispanic Adolescent Pregnancy (R29 HD32531) 

1989-1991
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, Co-Investigator. Preventing Repeat Pregnancies among Young, Hispanic Teenage Mothers Who Deliver at Los Angeles County Women's Hospital.
 

Professional Experience and Consulting

1998-2001
Member, Technical Advisory Group for project on reproductive health of adolescents in Nepal, International Center for Research on Women (ICRW), Washington, D.C. and AVSC International, New York City. 

1998-99
Asian-American youth tobacco use study, Celia P. Kaplan, Principal Investigator, UCSF Department of Medicine, San Francisco, CA 

1993-96
The Parisky Group, Hartford, CT. Evaluation design for community perinatal health project and community drug abuse prevention project. 

1994-95
Hartford Hospital and St. Francis/Mt. Sinai Hospitals, evaluation of perinatal care services. 

1986-91
Culver City-UCLA School Health Center Project, Research and Evaluation Coordinator, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, UCLA Medical Center. 
 

Fellowships

1980
 Inter-American Foundation, Master's Learning Fellowship on Social Change 

1982-83 
Bush Foundation Training Program in Child Development and Social Policy. 

1983-85
Bixby Fellowship (Population), School of Public Health, UCLA 

1985
UCLA Graduate Division Award. 

1979-82 and 1985-86
Traineeship, School of Public Health, UCLA 
 

Organizations

American Anthropological Association, Fellow 
American Public Health Association 
Society for Applied Anthropology, Fellow 
Society for Medical Anthropology 
 

Service In Professional Organizations

Editor, Medical Anthropology Quarterly, Society for Medical Anthropology, January 2003 – December 2006.

Governing Council, Family Planning, and Reproductive Health Section, American Public Health Association, November 2002 - November 2005.

Secretary, Population, Family Planning, and Reproductive Health Section, American Public Health Association, November 2000 - November 2001.
 

Honors

Phi Beta Kappa 
Phi Kappa Phi 
Delta Omega 
 

Languages and Computer Skills

Spanish - good 
French - reading 
SPSS, Ucinet, ATLAS.ti