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About Jessica Mulligan

Jessica Mulligan is Associate Professor of Health Policy and Management at Providence College. She teaches courses in public health, social studies of illness, and health policy. Trained as a medical anthropologist, her current research project uses life history interviews to explore the health and financial impacts of insurance coverage on the formerly uninsured. She has published journal articles in Medical Anthropology, Medical Anthropology Quarterly, and the Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law (forthcoming). Her second book, Unequal Coverage: The Experience of Health Care Reform in the United States was published by NYU Press in 2017. She received her doctorate in anthropology from Harvard University in 2007.

Positions

2019 - Present Coordinator for Undergraduate Research, Providence College Health Policy and Management
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2015 - Present Associate Professor of Health Policy and Management, Providence College Health Policy and Management
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2010 - 2015 Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Management, Providence College Health Policy and Management
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2014 Interim Program Director, Providence College Health Policy and Management
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2008 - 2010 Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Connecticut College
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2007 - 2008 Lecturer on Anthropology, Harvard University
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2008 Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Brown University
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2003 - 2005 Adjunct Professor of Anthropology, University of Puerto Rico
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2001 - 2002 Teaching Fellow, Harvard University
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Curriculum Vitae




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Honors and Awards

  • Phi Beta Kappa and Summa Cum Laude George Washington University 1997
  • Graduate Scholarship Recipient Georgetown University 1997 - 1999
  • Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship Harvard University 1999-2000
  • Saltonstall Population Innovation Fund Fellowship Harvard University 2001-2002
  • Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies Grant Harvard University 2003
  • Hemenway Fellowship of American Ethnology Harvard University 2005
  • Predissertation Fellowship Brown University 2006
  • Graduate Society Fellowship for Dissertation Completion Harvard University 2006-2007
  • Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship Connecticut College 2008-2010
  • Expert Advisory Committee Member HealthSourceRI 2013 - 2015
  • School of Professional Studies, Summer Scholar Funding Providence College, 2014, 17, 18
  • Committee on Aid to Faculty Research Grant Providence College, 2014, 16, 19
  • Short Seminar Co-Chair, School for Advanced Research Santa Fe, NM 2015
  • The Collaborative Research Grant Providence, RI 2015
  • Treasurer, Society for Medical Anthropology American Anthro. Assoc., 2018-21
  • SPS Faculty Excellence Award Providence College, 2018

Courses

  • Gender, Medicine and Care
  • Community Health Practice
  • Senior Seminar in Health Policy and Management
  • Culture, Health and Illness
  • Epidemiology of Health and Disease

Education

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2007 PhD, Harvard University ‐ Social Anthropology
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1999 MA, Georgetown University ‐ Latin American Studies
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1997 BA, George Washington University ‐ Latin American Studies
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Contact Information

Department of Health Policy and Management
Providence College
1 Cunningham Square
Howley Hall 204
Providence, RI 02918-0152
401-441-0033
jmullig5@providence.edu

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Books (2)

Journal Articles (13)

Other Academic Writing (3)

Public Scholarship (11)