| Assistant Professor
Office: 267 Humphrey Center
Phone: 612-625-4747
E-mail: frie0013@umn.edu
Areas of expertise: international development; health services research; household economics and family health, caregiving labor and risks ; property ownership, domestic violence, war, gender, Latin America, US veterans
Greta Friedemann-Sánchez is an assistant professor of international development in the global policy area. She is an economic and medical anthropologist whose research centers on families, household economics, and individual family-member health.
Her research on rural development in Latin America (Colombia) explores the links between agro-industrial employment in the context of structural adjustment programs and the individual and gendered experience of employment and socioeconomic development and change at the household level. Specifically, Friedemann-Sánchez looks at the role of property ownership, social capital, and domestic abuse in the intrahousehold bargaining process. She also studies family caregivers of U.S. service members who have sustained polytraumatic and blast related injuries, exploring the socioeconomic and health related costs and benefits of being a caregiver.
Friedemann-Sánchez has written extensively about international development. Her most recent book is titled Assembling Flowers and Cultivating Homes: Labor and Gender in Colombia (Lexington Books 2006). She is also the author of several journal articles.
She is a member of the International Association for Feminist Economics, the American Anthropological Association, the Society for Applied Anthropology, the Society for Medical Anthropology, the Society for Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, the American Public Health Association, and the Academy of Health.
She received her Licenciatura in Anthropology from the Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia, her native country. She completed her master's degree in public affairs and Ph.D. in economic anthropology at the University of Minnesota, where she also was a MacArthur Fellow in the Interdisciplinary Program on Global Change, Sustainability, and Justice. She then completed postdoctoral training in health services research at the Minneapolis VA Medical Center's Center for Chronic Disease Outcomes Research, where she was previously a core investigator.
Courses taught for the Humphrey Institute
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Spring 2009
PA 5501 - Economic Development
PA 5522 - Economic Development Policies in Latin America
PA 8991-10 - Independent Study
Fall 2008
PA 8991-10 - Independent Study
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