Harriet Phinney, PhD

Associate Professor, Anthropology and Sociology
Associate Appointment, Asian Studies Program
Email: phinneyh@seattleu.edu
Phone: 206.296.5906
Building/Room: Casey 310-02
Teaching and Research Interests
Courses:
Introduction to Anthropology
Culture and the Body
Culture and Reproduction
Ethnographic Methods
Senior Synthesis: Thinking Anthropologically
Research Interests:
Affect and Emotion
Gender and Sexuality
HIV/AIDS
Politics of Reproduction
Marital and Family law/Kinship
Medical Anthropology
Single mothers
Vietnam and Southeast Asia
Recent Publications:
2013 Phinney, Harriet, Khuat Thu Hong, Vu Thi Thanh Nhan, Nguyen Thi Phuong Thao, Jennifer S. Hirsch, "Obstacles to the Cleanliness of our Race: HIV, reproductive risk, stratified reproduction, and population quality in Hanoi,Vietnam." Journal of Critical Public Health. January. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09581596.2013.846464
2012 Hirsch, Jennifer, Holly Wardlow, and Harriet Phinney. 'No one saw us': reputation as an axis of sexual identity. In Aggleton, Peter; Boyce, Paul; Moore, Henrietta L.; and Parker, Richard, eds. Understanding Global Sexualities: New Frontiers. London, Routledge, pp. 91- 107.
2009 Hirsch, Jennifer, Holly Wardlow, Daniel Jordan Smith, Harriet Phinney, Shanti Parikh and Constance Nathanson. The Secret: Love, Marriage and HIV. Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press.
2008 Phinney, Harriet. 'Rice is Essential but Tiresome; You should get some Noodles: Doi Moi and the Political Economy of Men's Extramarital Sexual Relations and Marital HIV Risk in Hanoi, Vietnam. American Journal of Public Health, vol. 98, no. 4, pp. 650-660.2008 Phinney, Harriet. Objects of Affection: Vietnamese Discourses on Love and Emancipation. positions 16(2): 329-356.