People
Heide Castañeda
Professor and Associate Chair
contact
Email: hcastaneda@usf.edu
Education
- Ph.D., Anthropology, University of Arizona
- MPH, Public Health, University of Texas
- MA, Anthropology, University of Texas at San Antonio
Teaching
Research Design & Proposal Writing, Anthropological Theory Today, Migration & Borders, Anthropology of Health Policy, Theory in Medical Anthropology, Health Illness & Culture, Cultural Anthropology, Health & Medical Systems, Global Health from an Anthropological Perspective
Research
Dr. Castañeda's research areas include critical border studies, political and legal anthropology, medical anthropology, migration, migrant health, and citizenship, focusing on the U.S./Mexico border, Mexico, Germany, and Morocco. Her current projects focus on 1) the Amazigh diaspora in the United States and 2) forced immobility and sub-Saharan migration in Morocco.
She is the author of Migration and Health: Critical Perspectives (Routledge, 2023), Borders of Belonging: Struggle and Solidarity in Mixed-Status Immigrant Families (Stanford U Press, 2019) and co-editor of Unequal Coverage: The Experience of Health Care Reform in the United States (NYU Press, 2018). Her latest book is American Amazigh: Remaking North African Indigeneity and Belonging in the Diaspora (NYU Press, 2026).
Dr. Castañeda has also published over 60 peer-reviewed research articles. A list of these publications can be found here.
Her research has been cited over 6,000 times and has an h-index of 32 and i10-index of 58. In the past five years she has been been recognized as a one of the top 2% of the most cited scientists globally by Stanford/Elsevier’s annual ranking based on citations. Her work has been funded by the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, the Fulbright Program, the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), and the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research.
Graduate Students
Augusta Herman, Amanda Leppert Gomes, Caseem Luck, Laura Parada Perla, Mahir Rahman, and Kaylie Simon