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
- Studium, Sozial-und Kulturanthropologie, Philipps-Universität, Germany
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, 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 the Amazigh diaspora in the United States and 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 60+ peer-reviewed research articles. A list of these publications can be found here.
She is a Fulbright scholar and her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), and the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research.
Graduate Students
Alé Barrientos, Augusta Herman, Amanda Leppert Gomes, Caseem Luck, Laura Parada Perla, Mahir Rahman, and Kaylie Simon