I am interested in applied medical anthropology, as the interaction of culture, health, society, and illness. I've done research in areas such as sleep and the treatment-seeking behaviors surrounding sleep disorders, violence, refugees, and international relief during conflict and disaster, program evaluation through “cost-benefit analyses,” structural violence and the public health of young gay and bisexual men, paramedical decision-making, and the "cruising" culture of looking for sex partners in Internet chat rooms. I currently teach the undergraduate courses Introduction to Sociocultural Anthropology, Peoples and Cultures of Africa, and Field Methods, and the graduate courses Medical Anthropology and Quantitative Methods and Analyses.

Selected Consulting Projects 2006 Henry, D., and T. Tessmann Assessment of the Texas/ Mexico Border Physicians for the Cultural Adaptation of the Spanish Translation of Parkland’s Pocket Guide to HIV Care. Presented to the TX/OK AETC of Parkland Health and Hospital Systems. 2006 Henry, D., and L. Henry Assessment of the Medical Care and Capacity of the West Texas Panhandle. Presented to the TX/OK AETC of Parkland Health and Hospital Systems.

2006 Henry, D., and L. Henry
Assessment of the AETC Conference to Advance the Spirit of the Minority AIDS Initiative (MAI).
Presented to the TX/OK AETC of Parkland Health and Hospital Systems.

2006 Texas Oklahoma AIDS Education and Training Center, Parkland Hospital, Dallas, TX

2005 City of Fort Worth Public Health Department, Fort Worth, TX

Education

Selected Publications

Henry, D.
submitted Diamonds Are Not a Boy’s Best Friend: What Happened When Alhadji Met the Rebels. In The Human Tradition in Modern Africa, D. Cordell, ed. Lanham, Md: Rowman Littlefield. Expected printing 2008.

Henry, D., D. McClellen, L. Rosenthal, D. Dedrick, and M. Gosdin.
2008 Is Sleep Really for Sissies? Understanding the Role of Work in Insomnia in the U.S. Social Science and Medicine 66 (3): 715-726.

Henry, D., R. Bales, and E. Graves.
2007 Ethnography in Evaluation: Uncovering Hidden Costs and Benefits in Child Mental Health. Human Organization 66(3): 315-326.

Henry, D., R. Bales, and E. Graves.
2007 Strangers in a Strange Land: Anthropologists do Cost-Benefit Analysis. Practicing Anthropology 29(2):24-27.

Davenport, Beverly, and Doug Henry.
2007 Building a Sense of Community in an Online Class. Practicing Anthropology 29(1):12-15.

Ross, M., A. Dawson, D. Henry, and A. Freeman.
2006 Deliberate or Indifferent to HIV Transmission? Evidence of Barebacking Risk Levels from an Internet Site. In Barebacking: Psychosocial and Public Health Approaches. P. Halkitis, L. Wilton, and J. Drescher, eds., Pp. 73-84. Binghamton: Harrington Park and Haworth Medical Press.

Henry, D.
2006 Violence and the Body: Somatic Expressions of Trauma and Vulnerability During Conflict. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 20(3):379-398.

Reddy, Sumanth, D. Henry, and J. Oppong.
2006 Conflict, Diamonds, and the Political Economy of Instability in Africa. African Geographical Review 24:51-70.

Henry, D.
2005 Anthropological Contributions to the Study of Disasters. In Disciplines, Disasters and Emergency Management: The Convergence and Divergence of Concepts, Issues and Trends From the Research Literature. D. McEntire, ed. Emittsburg, Maryland: Federal Emergency Management Agency. Secondary printing in 2007 by CC Thomas Publishing, Pp. 111-123.

Ross, M., A. Dawson, D. Henry, and A. Freeman.
2005 Evidence of HIV Transmission Risk in Barebacking Men Who Have Sex with Men: Cases from the Internet. Journal of Gay and Lesbian Psychotherapy 9(3/4): 73-84.

Moore, A., and D. Henry.
2005 Experiences of Older Informal Caregivers to People with HIV/ AIDS in Lomé, Togo. Ageing International 30(2):147-166.

Henry, D.
2005 The Legacy of the Tank, the Violence of Peace. Anthropological Quarterly 78 (2): 443-456.

Selected Presentations

2004 Henry, D., and G. Jones Cruising Trolls and the Down-Low: Ethnographically Mapping the Modern Tea-Room Trade. Paper presented at the
annual meetings of the Society for Applied Anthropology. March 31-April
4, Dallas, TX.

2004 Henry, D. Patterns Of Informal Care To People Living With Aids In Sierra
Leone, West Africa (Waiting To Die) Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Society for Applied Anthropology/ Medical Anthropology. April 2, 2004.
Dallas, TX.

2003 Citizens, Refugees, and Relief Along the Sierra Leone-Guinea Border Paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association. November 20, 2003. Chicago, IL.

2002 Cyborgs, Sex, and HIV Risk: a Medical Ethnography of Online Chat. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association. November 20 – 24, 2002. New Orleans, LA.

2002 "But is it Ethnography? Towards an Anthropology of Online Sex Chat Among Men Who Have Sex With Men." Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Society for Applied Anthropology. March 6-10, 2002. Atlanta, GA. 

2001 Organizer for session "Anthropological Encounters With Humanitarian Relief." Invited session sponsored by GAD, held at the annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association. November 28-December 2, 2001. Washington, DC.

2001 "Refugee Medicine or Medicalized Refugees? The Sick Role and the Power of Voice." Paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association. November 28-December 2, 2001. Washington, DC.

2000 "Hypertension: Somatic Manifestations of Trauma During Wartime." Paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association. November 18th, 2000. San Francisco, California.