Teaching and Mentoring
Shana has taught cultural and medical anthropology at the University of Central Florida since 2015. She teaches graduate and upper-division undergraduate courses, and mentors undergraduate, graduate (M.A. and Ph.D.), and medical students in completing independent ethnographic and qualitative research in the United States and internationally. She works with students from multiple disciplines, including anthropology, sociology, medicine, nursing, health sciences, biotechnology, and Latin American Studies to design, conduct, and publish their research.
Courses Taught
Undergraduate Graduate
Anthropology of Drugs and Addiction Anthropology of the Body
Anthropology of the Body Seminar in Cultural Anthropology
Culture, Disease, and Healing Ethnographic Research Methods
Science, Technology, and Culture Advanced Qualitative Methods in Anthropology
Sex, Gender, and Culture Directed Independent Study
Peoples of the World Doctoral Research
General Anthropology Doctoral Dissertation
Internship Thesis
Directed Independent Research
Honors Directed Reading
Honors Undergraduate Thesis
Global Health Internship
In collaboration with the University of Central Florida's Department of Anthropology and the International Medical Outreach (IMO) student organization, Shana co-developed the undergraduate Global Health Internship in Haiti, Brazil, Puerto Rico, India, and Türkiye. Offered each Fall and Spring semester, the internship allows anthropology students to experience firsthand medical outreach and learn about the effects of socioeconomic disparities on health and healthcare provision in the global south. In addition to participating in health-related activities, interns use ethnographic methods to collect data and conduct an anthropological assessment to improve IMO's work in these communities.