Curriculum Vita

MIMI NICHTER, Ph.D.
Professor Emerita
University of Arizona, School of Anthropology
(520)258-8850
E-mail: mimi.nichter@gmail.com

EDUCATION:

Post-Doc - University of Arizona, Dept. of Anthropology, Medical Anthropology, 1996.

Ph.D. - University of Arizona, Dept. of Family Studies & Human Development, 1995.

M.A. - University of Hawaii, Health Communications, 1982.

M.A. - Teachers College, Columbia University, Applied Linguistics & TESOL, 1974.

B.A. - George Washington University, Washington, D.C., English Literature, 1971.

CHRONOLOGY OF EMPLOYMENT:

4/10- Professor, School of Anthropology, University of Arizona. Joint appointments in Norton School of Family Studies and Human Development and College of Public Health.

4/04-4/10 Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology,

Joint appointments in Norton School of Family Studies and Human Development and College of Public Health.

8/99- Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Arizona.

Assistant Professor, Department of Family Studies and Human Development, Clinical Assistant Professor, College of Public Health.

2/96-7/99 Clinical Assistant Professor of Public Health and Director, International Health Program, Arizona Graduate Program in Public Health, Arizona Prevention Center, University of Arizona.

6/88-6/94 Project Director, Teen Lifestyle Project, Departments of Anthropology and Family and Community Medicine, University of Arizona. (National Institutes of Health-funded longitudinal study on body image, dieting and smoking among teens)

6/93-6/94 Project Director, Adolescent Health Promotion Project for Nutrition and Fitness, Tucson, Arizona. (Funded by Canyon Ranch)

HONORS AND AWARDS:

2013 George Foster Award for Practicing Medical Anthropology, Society for Medical Anthropology,

American Anthropological Association.

2009 Alcohol, Drug, and Tobacco Study Group. Best Paper. Breastfeeding practices among postpartum women, published in Birth: Issues in Perinatal Care, 2008. Authors: Goldade, Kate, Nichter, Mimi, Adrian, Shelly, Nichter, Mark, Muramoto, Myra.

2002 Margaret Mead Award, Society for Applied Anthropology and American Anthropological Association for Fat Talk: What Girls and Their Parents Say about Dieting (Harvard University Press, 2000).

1996 Runner-up for the Hershel Thornburg Award for the Best Dissertation in Adolescence, Society for Research on Adolescence.

1992 Rudolph Virchow Prize, Society for Medical Anthropology, for the best published paper with a critical medical anthropology perspective. Awarded for “Hype and Weight” (co-authored with Mark Nichter).

FIELDWORK EXPERIENCE

2014-19 Research in support of culturally appropriate tobacco cessation training of nurses. Istanbul, Turkey. Funded by Mayo Clinic and Global Bridges.

2018-19 Social media research among college students. (Funded by National Science Foundation, PI Nicole Taylor).

2002-17 Formative research leading to development and testing of culturally sensitive community- based tobacco cessation interventions in five field sites in India and five in Indonesia. Developed a four-year integrated tobacco curriculum in ten medical colleges in these countries. Co Principal Investigator of NIH Fogarty working at Shri Chitra Tirunal Institute of Medical Sciences, Kerala, India and Gadjah Mada University, College of Medicine, Yogyakarta, Java, Indonesia.

2012-2015 Ongoing fieldwork in Mumbai and Mangalore, Karnataka for a project on beauty practices and shifts in consumption among Indian women.

2005 Six month project in India studying the addictive quality of betel nut. Also studied political

economy of medical and nursing education and globalization in India

1980-present Yearly or bi-yearly visits to South India to conduct research on popular health culture; yoga, social change and globalization, tobacco use among college students, shifts in food consumption among youth

2001-2003 Freshmen experience: an ethnography of smoking and drinking (UA and Purdue University),

Funded by Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

1998-99 Ethnographic fieldwork in Karnataka, India on tobacco use among college students. Senior Research Fellow, American Institute of Indian Studies.

1991-1992 Ethnographic research on women’s and child health and the household production of health in South India; Consultant for Ford Foundation, New Delhi, Gujarat, and Andhra Pradesh.

1989 Ethnographic research on Acute Respiratory Illness in Mindoro, Philippines. Affiliated with Regional Institute of Tropical Medicine, Manila.

1989-1994 Research on adolescent smoking and dieting, Tucson, Arizona, Funded by National Institutes of Health.

1983-1984 Ethnographic research on ethnophysiology of fertility and fertility control, Sri Lanka; Consultant for Research Triangle International, University of North Carolina.

1978-1980 Ethnographic fieldwork on community participation and the commodification of health, Karnataka, India. Affiliated with National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bangalore, Karnataka.

1974-1976 Ethnographic fieldwork on the anthropology of health and folk religion, in South Kanara District,

Karnataka, India.

SERVICE/OUTREACH

Local/State Outreach

Founding member, HCW HOSTED (March 2020-Present). This is a community-based initiative to provide housing and mental health services to healthcare workers and their families in Tucson during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Board Member (Sept 2018-Present), Preschool Promise, a Tucson-based coalition to make high quality childcare accessible and affordable to all members of the community. Working to garner public funding for this initiative.
Book presenter, Lighting Up: The Rise of Social Smoking on College Campuses, Tucson Festival of Books, March, 2015.
Tucson Meet Yourself, my research on teens and millennials (dieting; smoking) was featured in the anthropology tent. This exhibit is now in the Arizona State Museum. (Fall 2015-ongoing).
Presentation to BodySmart group (through Campus Health) on Body Image and Developing Healthy Sense of Self for College Students, April 2015.
Member, mHealth Initiative on UA Campus, 2012-present.
Member, Adolescent Health and Development Initiative, Frances McClelland Institute for Children, Youth and Families, 2009-present.
Member, Faculty Fellows Program, University of Arizona, 2010-2011
Member, Healthy Families Advisory Board, Child and Family Services, Tucson, 2010.
Member, Smith Advisory Board on Youth Prevention Strategies, College of Education, University of Arizona, 2008.
Project Reach, Training resident hall directors at the University of Arizona in tobacco cessation counseling, Spring 2007.
Project Reach, Training of laypersons in Tucson in tobacco cessation counseling, 2002-6.
Member, School-based Tobacco Prevention Program, serving 50 elementary, middle, and high schools in Pima County, Arizona. Conducted multiple workshops for teachers and school counselors on issues in youth smoking, principles of tobacco prevention, and media literacy (i.e., teaching youth to read advertising), 2001-2006.

National/International Outreach

Invited Speaker: University of Montana, School of Public Health, March 2022, Developing a Smoke Free Homes Initiative in Indonesia.
Invited Speaker: University of Arizona, College of Public Health, March 2021. Global Tobacco.
November 2018, Invited Panel Participant, National Institute of Alcohol and Alcohol Abuse (NIAA), Meeting on Extreme Drinking among Youth, Washington DC.
Reviewer for Qualitative Health Research, Tobacco Control, American Ethnologist, American Anthropologist, Tobacco Prevention and Cessation, Human Organization, National Science Foundation, American Council for Learned Societies (ACLS), Cancer Research (UK) (2017-present)

Invited Speaker: Texas State University, Department of Anthropology, Building Capacity for Tobacco Cessation in India, Indonesia and Turkey, Sept. 2017.
Appointed Member, AAA Awards Committee, George Foster Award for Medical Anthropology, 2017 and Alcohol, Drug and Tobacco Best Graduate Student Paper Award Committee, 2017
Monash University, Australia, Promotion and Tenure Review for School of Social Sciences, 2018.

Invited Speaker: University of Southern California, Tobacco Center of Regulatory Science for Vulnerable Populations, September 2016.

Invited Speaker and Facilitator, Global Bridges Conference on Tobacco Dependence Treatment Meeting, Mayo Clinic, Minnesota, May 2016.
Reviewer in 2016 for Journal of Epidemiology and Global Health, Tobacco Control, Nicotine and Tobacco Research, Societies, Journal of Women’s Health.

Appointed Member, AAA Awards Committee, George Foster Award for Medical Anthropology, 2015.
Invited Speaker: NIH/WHO Meeting on International Tobacco, Ankara Turkey, March 2015.
Invited Speaker: Legacy Foundation, Washington, D.C., April 2015.
Invited Speaker, Smoke Free Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Ocober 2015.
Invited Speaker, UCSF College of Medicine, Webinar, November 2015
Radio interview, BYU Top of Mind, April 2015 on Social Smoking among College Students.

Reviewer for National Science Foundation, Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research, UK Cancer Research Foundation, Shastri Foundation; Journal reviews for Food and Foodways, Medical Anthropology, Public Health Nutrition, Qualitative Health Research, Body Image, Medical Anthropology Quarterly, Preventive Medicine, Social Science and Medicine, Health Policy, Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, Routledge Press, Princeton University Press (book manuscript review); School for Advanced Research (book manuscript review), Routledge Press (book proposal review).
Scientific Committee Member, Encounters and engagements: Creating new agendas for medical anthropology, Joint international conference (EASA and Society for Medical Anthropology), Tarragona Spain, June 2013. Stream leader (with Piet Van Eeuwijk and Gabrielle Alex) Lifecycles and Health.

Appointed Member, AAA Awards Committee (Franz Boas Award, Anthropology in Media Award, Textor Prize), 2009-2011
Advisory Board Member, Understanding Teen Drinking Cultures, Center for the Advancement of Public Health, George Mason University, 2008-10
Tenure Reviewer for University of Kentucky, College of Public Health
Editorial Board, Medical Anthropology: Cross Cultural Studies in Health and Illness, 2005-2009
Invited leader, “Sociocultural Factors Affecting Pregnant Women’s Use of Tobacco and Exposure to Second Hand Smoke, Centers for Disease Control and NIH Expert Meeting, Sept. 2008

Chair, Alcohol, Tobacco and Drug Study Group, American Anthropological Association, 2003-2008
Member, Selection Committee, Margaret Mead Award, American Anthropological Association, 2004-2006
Member, Rudolph Virchow Prize Selection Committee (Critical Medical Anthropology), 2005
Co-Chair, Meetings of the Society for Medical Anthropology (held during the Society of Applied Anthropology Meetings, Spring 2004)
Editorial Board, Medical Anthropology: Cross Cultural Studies in Health and Illness, 2005-2009.
Advisory Board Member, Understanding Teen Drinking Cultures, Center for the Advancement of Public Health, George Mason University, 2008-10.
Invited Participant, National Cancer Institute, National Institute of Health Office of Research on Women’s Health, Tobacco Control Policies: Do They Make a Difference for Low SES Women and Girls? Sept. 2005.

PUBLICATIONS:

BOOKS

Taylor, Nicole and Mimi Nichter. A Filtered Life: Social Media on a College Campus. New York: Routledge Press, 2022.

Nichter, Mimi. Lighting Up: The Rise of Social Smoking on College Campuses. New York: New York University Press, 2015.

Nichter, Mimi. Fat Talk: What Girls and their Parents Say About Dieting. Cambridge:

Harvard University Press, 2000. (translated into Chinese, 2002).

Nichter, Mark and Nichter, Mimi. Anthropology and International Health: Asian Case Studies.

New York: Routledge Press, 1996.

MONOGRAPHS

Nichter, Mimi and Nichter, Mark. Women’s Work and Child Health: Case Studies from India.

Ford Foundation, New Delhi, India, 1998.

Nichter, Mark and Nichter, Mimi. An Anthropological Approach to Nutrition Education. Newton, Ma:

Education Development Center, International Nutrition Communication Service, 1981.

BOOK CHAPTERS (SELECTED)

Nichter, Mimi and Taylor, Nicole. Anthropological methods for the study of body image. In John Brett & Janet Chrzan (editors) Research Methods for the Anthropological Study of Food and Nutrition, Bergahn Books, 2017.

Taylor, Nicole and Nichter, Mimi. Body Image: Supporting Healthy Ideas and Behaviors for a Diverse Student Population. In David Anderson (Editor), Wellness Issues for Higher Education (Volume 2), Routledge Press, 2016.

Nichter, Mark and Nichter, Mimi. Promoting smoking through culture in Indonesia. In Vital Signs: Medical Anthropology in the 21st Century, edited by Lenore Manderson, Anita Hardon, and Elizabeth Cartwright, Routledge Press, 2016.

Nichter, Mimi. The social life of yoga: Exploring transnational flows in India. In Beatrix Hauser (editor) Yoga Traveling: Bodily Practice in Transcultural Perspective. Germany; Springer Press, 2013.

Nichter, Mimi. Entry on Dieting, Encyclopedia of Consumer Culture (Dale Southerton, Editor), CQ Press, 2011.

Kaufman, N. and Nichter, Mimi. The marketing of tobacco to women: Global perspectives. In Gender, Women and the Tobacco Epidemic. (edited by J. Samet & S.Y.Yoon). World Health Organization, Geneva, 2010.

Nichter, M., Nichter, Mimi, Padmawathi, S., & Thresia, C.U. Anthropological Contributions to the Development of Culturally Appropriate Tobacco Cessation Programs: A global health priority. In Anthropology and Public Health, R. Hahn & M. Inhorn (editors). Oxford University Press, 2009.

Nichter, Mimi. Adolescent Health: A Social Ecological Perspective. In Social and Behavioral Foundations of Public Health, Jeannine Coreil (editor), Sage Press, 2008.

Nichter, MimiTobacco use in South Asia. In J. Goodman (editor). Tobacco: Scribner’s Turning Points in History Series. Farmington Hills, MI: Charles Scribner’s Sons, Gale Group, 2004.

Nichter, Mimi, Vuckovic, N. and S. Parker. The Looking Good, Feeling Good Program: A multiethnic intervention for healthy body image, nutrition, and physical activity. In Preventing Eating Disorders: A Handbook of Interventions and Special Challenges, N. Piran, M. P. Levine, and C. Steiner-Adair (editors), Guilford Publications, 1999.

Nichter, Mimi and Vuckovic, N. Fat talk: Body image among adolescent girls. In Many Mirrors: Body Image and Social Relations, (Nicole Sault, editor), Rutgers University Press, 1994.

Nichter, Mimi and Nichter, Mark. Modern methods of fertility regulation: When and for whom are they appropriate? In Mark Nichter (ed). Anthropology and International Health: South Asian Case Studies. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1989.

Nichter, Mimi and Nichter, Mark. A tale of Simeon: Experiences of conducting fieldwork while raising a child in South India. In J. Cassell (ed.) Children in the Field: Anthropological Experiences.

Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1987.

Nichter, Mimi and A. Someshvara. The Myth of Shiva and Parvati. In B. Beck, P. Claus and J. Handoo (Eds.) Folktales of India. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987.

Nichter, Mark and Nichter, Mimi. Using analogies for health education. In David Werner (Ed)Helping Health Workers Learn. San Diego: Hesperian Foundation, 1986.

Nichter, Mimi and Dissanayake, W. Native sensibility and literary discourse. In L. Smith (Ed). Discourse across Cultures: Strategies in World Englishes. New York: Pergamon Press, 1985

REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES (SELECTED)

Pathak, Gauri and Nichter, Mimi. Cleanups, confidence, and cosmetics: Marketing beauty in India. Journal of Consumer Culture, 1-21, 2018.

Nichter, Mimi, Carkoglu, A. and Nichter, Mark. Engaging nurses in smoking cessation: Challenges and opportunities in Turkey. Health Policy,122:2, February 2018, 192-197.

Padmawati, Retna Siwi, Prabandari, Yayi Suryo, Istiyani, Tutik, Nichter, Mark and Nichter, Mimi. Establishing a community-based smoke-free homes movement in Indonesia. Tobacco Prevention and Cessation, 2018; 4 (November), 36.

Y.S. Prabandari, Nichter, M., Nichter, M., R.S. Padmawathi, M. Muramoto. Laying the Groundwork for Tobacco Cessation Education in Medical Colleges in Indonesia. Education for Health, Sept-Dec 28(3): 169-75, 2015.

Mimi Nichter, P. Sreedevi, Mark Nichter, P. Sairu, S. Aswathy, A.S. Bindu, Pradeepkumar, KR

Thankappan. Developing a smoke free homes initiative in Kerala, India. BMC Public

Health, 2015, 15: 480.

T.R. Yamini, Mark Nichter, Mimi Nichter, P. Sairu, S. Aswathy, K. Leelamoni, B. Unnakrishan, et

al. Developing a fully integrated tobacco curriculum in medical colleges in India. BMC Medical Education, 2015, 15: 90.

Muramoto, M., Lando, H.,Castenada, H., Nichter, Mark, Nichter, Mimi. Activating Lay Health Influencers to Promote Tobacco Cessation. American Journal of Health Behavior, 2014: 38 (3), 392-403.

Hingle, M., Nichter, Mimi, Medeiros, M., Grace, S. Texting for health: The Use of Participatory Methods to Develop Healthy Lifestyle Messages for Teens. Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior, 45(1), 2013.

Nichter, Mimi, Borden, Lynn, and Przybl, Veronica. The Role of Program Leaders in the Use of Technology: Challenges and Opportunities for Youth-Serving Organizations. Journal of Youth Development – Bridging Research and Practice. 8 (3), 2013, 83-92.

Amos, A., Greaves, L., Nichter, Mimi, Bloch, M. Women and tobacco: a call for including gender in tobacco control research, policy and practice. Tobacco Control, 2012, 21:236-243.

Ritenbaugh, C., Nichter, Mimi, Nichter, M., Kelly, K., Sims, C. Bell, I, Castaneda, H., et al. Developing a patient-centered outcome measure for complementary and alternative medicine therapies I: Defining content and format. BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine, 2012.

Yuan, N., Castaneda, H., Nichter, M., Nichter, M., Wind, S., Carruth, L. and Muramoto, M. Lay health influencers: how they tailor brief tobacco cessation interventions. Health Education & Behavior , 2011.

Nichter, Mimi, Nichter, Mark, Carkoglu, A., Lloyd-Richardson, E. Smoking and drinking among college students: “It’s a package deal”. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 2010, 106, 16-20.

Nawi Ng, Mark Nichter, Yayi Suryo Prabandari, R.S. Padmawati, Mimi Nichter,

and Muramoto, M. Bringing smoking cessation to diabetes clinics in Indonesia. Chronic Illness

6:125–135, 2010.

Castaneda, H., Nichter M., Nichter, M., Muramoto, M. Enabling and sustaining the activities of lay health

Influencers: Lessons from a community-based tobacco cessation intervention study. Health Promotion Practice,

July 11(4), 483-92, 2010.

Nichter, Mark and Nichter, Mimi. Revisiting the Concept of Karma: Lessons from a Dhanvantari Homa. Journal of Ritual Studies, 24(2): 37-55, 2010.

Nichter, M, Nichter, Mimi, and Muramoto, M. Project Quit Tobacco International: Laying the groundwork for tobacco cessation in low and middle income countries. Asia Pacific Journal of Public Health, 22(3): 181S-188S, 2010.

Ng, N., Padmawati, S., Prabandari, YS, Muramoto, M, Nichter, Mimi Nichter, Smoking cessation counseling for diabetes patients in Indonesia: Results of a pilot intervention. Diabetes, 2010.

J. Srihari, Blank, M.D., Balster, R., Nichter, Mimi, and Nichter, Mark. Areca nut patterns

and topography of use in Southern India. Addiction, 105: 1303–1310, 2010.

Nichter, Mimi, Greaves, L., Bloch, M., Paglia, M., Scarinci, I., Tolosa, J., Novotny, T. Tobacco Use and secondhand smoke exposure during pregnancy in low-and middle-income countries: the need for social and cultural research. Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica, 2010, 89; 465-477.

Nichter, Mimi, Nichter, Mark, Padmawathi, R.S., Ng, N. Developing a smoke free household initiative: an Indonesian case study. Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica, 2010, 89, 578-581.

Yuan, Nicole, Wind, S., Nichter, Mimi, Nichter, M., Castenada, Heide, Carruth, Lauren, Muramoto, Myra. Types of lay health influencers in tobacco cessation: A qualitative study. American Journal of Health Behavior, 2010, 34(5), 607-617.

Nichter, Mimi, Padmawathi, S., Prabhandari, Y., Ng, N, Nichter, Mark. Reading culture from tobacco advertisements in Indonesia. Tobacco Control, 18: 98-107, 2009.

Magid, V., Colder, C., Stroud, L., Mimi Nichter, Nichter, M. and TERN. Negative affect, stress,

and smoking in college students: Unique association independent of alcohol and marijuana use. Addictive Behaviors, 34: 973–975, 2009.

Nichter, Mimi, Nichter, Mark, Adrian, Shelly, Goldade, Kate, & Tesler, Laura. Harm Reduction Efforts among Postpartum Women. Qualitative Health Research, 18(9), 2008.

Goldade, Kate, Nichter, Mimi, Adrian, Shelly, Nichter, Mark, Muramoto, Myra. Breastfeeding practices and smoking among postpartum women. Birth: Issues in Perinatal Care, 35(3):230-40, 2008.

Castaneda, H., Nichter, M., Nichter, Mimi., Muramoto, M. Enabling and sustaining the activities of lay health influencers: Lessons from a community-based tobacco cessation intervention study. Health Promotion Practice, 2008.

Acosta, M., Eissenberg, T., Nichter, Mimi., Nichter, Mark, Balster, R. Characterizing early cigarette use episodes in novice smokers. Addictive Behaviors, 33(1), 106-121, 2008.

Dierker, L., Stolar, M., Richardson, E. Tiffany, S. Flay, B., Collins, L., Nichter, Mimi. et al. Tobacco, Alcohol, and Marijuana Use among First Year U.S. College Students: A time-series analysis. Substance Use and Misuse 43(5): 680–699, 2008.

Colder, C., Flay, B., Segawa, E., Hedeker, D. & TERN Members. Trajectories of smoking among freshmen college students with prior smoking history and risk for future smoking: data from the University Project Tobacco Etiology Research Network (UpTERN) study. Addiction 103: 1534–1543, 2008.

Nichter, Mimi, Nichter, Mark, Muramoto, Myra, Adrian, S., Goldade, K., & Tesler, L. Smoking among low income pregnant women: An ethnographic analysis. Health Education & Behavior, 2007, 34(5): 735-748.

Nichter, Mimi, for the Alcohol, Drug and Tobacco Study Group, American Anthropological Association. The WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control: An Urgent Call for Ratification. Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 2007, 21(3), 343-347.

Nichter, Mark, Nichter, Mimi, and Carkoglu, Asli. Reconsidering stress and smoking: a qualitative study among college students. Tobacco Control, 2007, 16: 211-214.

Stromberg, Peter, Nichter, Mark, Nichter, Mimi. Taking play seriously: Low-level smoking among college students. Culture, Medicine, & Psychiatry, 2007, 31, 1-24.

Nawi, Ng, Prabhandari YS, Padmawati RS, Okah, F, Haddock, CK, Nichter, Mimi, et al. Physician assessment of patient smoking in Indonesia: a public health priority. Tobacco Control, 2007; 16: 190-196.

Nichter, Mimi, Nichter, Mark, Richardson, E., et al. Gendered dimensions of smoking among college students. Journal of Adolescent Research, 21: 3, 2006, 215-243.

Nichter, Mark and the Quit Tobacco International Group (Mimi Nichter et al). Introducing tobacco cessation in developing countries: An overview of Project Quit Tobacco International. Tobacco Control, 2006, 15 (Supplement 1): 12-17.

Mohan, S., Pradeepkumar AS, Thresia, CU, Thankappan, KR, Poston WS, Haddock CK, Pinkston, MM, Muramoto, ML, Nichter, Mimi, Nichter, M, Lando,H. Tobacco use among medical professionals in Kerala, India: The need for enhanced tobacco cessation and control efforts, Addictive Behaviors, 2006, Dec 31(12): 2313-8.

Dierker L, Lloyd-Richardson E, Stolar M, Flay B, Tiffany S, Collins L, Bailey S, Nichter, Mark

Nichter, Mimi, Clayton R, and the Tobacco Etiology Research Network (TERN). The proximal

association between smoking and alcohol use among first year college students. Drug and

Alcohol Dependence 2006; 81(1), 1-9.

Colder, C.R., Lloyd-Richardson, E., Flaherty, B. et al and the Tobacco Etiology Research

Network. The natural history of college smoking: Trajectories of daily smoking during the

Freshmen year. Addictive Behaviors 2006, 31, 2212-2222.

Nichter, Mimi, Nichter, Mark, and Van Sickle, David. Popular perceptions of tobacco products and patterns of use among male college students in India. Social Science and Medicine, 59, 2004, 415-431.

Nichter, Mimi, Nichter, Mark, Vuckovic, N., Tesler, L., Adrian, S., and Ritenbaugh, C. Smoking as a weight control strategy among adolescent girls and young women: A reconsideration. Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 18 (3), 2004, 305-324.

Nichter, Mark, Quintero, G., Nichter, Mimi, Mock, J., and Shakib, S. Qualitative research: Contributions to the study of drug use, drug abuse, and drug-related programs. Substance Use and Misuse, 39 (10-12), 2004, 1-63.

Nichter, Mark, Nichter, Mimi, Thompson, P., Shiffman, S., and Moscicki, A.B.. Using qualitative research to inform survey development on nicotine dependence among adolescents. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 68, 2002, 41-56.

Ernster, V., Kaufman, N., Nichter, Mimi, Samet, J., and S. Yoon. Women and tobacco: Moving from policy to action. Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 78:7, 2000, 866-948.

Nichter, Mimi. Listening to girls talk about their bodies. Reclaiming Youth and Society, 9:3, 2000.

Nichter, Mimi, Nichter, Mark, Vuckovic, N., Ritenbaugh, C. and Quintero, G. Smoking experimentation and initiation among adolescent females: Qualitative and quantitative findings.

Tobacco Control, 6: 285-295, 1997.

Nichter, Mimi, Ritenbaugh, C., Nichter, M., Vuckovic, N., and M. Aickin. Dieting and watching among adolescent females: Report of a multimethod study. Journal of Adolescent Health, 17: 153-162, 1995.

Parker, S., Nichter, Mimi, Nichter, M. et al. Body image and weight concerns among African American and White Adolescent females: Differences which make a difference. Human Organization.

54(2): 103-114, 1995.

Nichter, Mark and Nichter, Mimi. Acute respiratory illness: Popular health culture and mother’s knowledge in the Philippines. Medical Anthropology, 15 (4), 1994.

Nichter, Mark and Nichter, Mimi. Hype and weight. Medical Anthropology, 13(3), 1991, 249-284.

Nichter, Mimi. Analogy in Health Education: Using the familiar to explain the new. In Development Communication Report, 74 (3), 1991.

Nichter, Mimi and Nichter, Mark. Cultural notions of fertility in South Asia and their impact on Sri Lanka family planning practices. Human Organization, 46(1), 198, 18-28.

Nichter, Mimi and Nichter, Mark. Education by appropriate analogy. Convergence: International Journal of Adult Education, 9 (1), 1986.

Nichter, Mark and Nichter, Mimi. The ethnophysiology and folk dietetics of pregnancy. Human Organization, 42(3), 1987, 235-246.

Nichter, Mimi and Nichter, Mark. The use of analogy in the communication of promotive health messages. Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Public Health in Asia and the Pacific.

Honolulu: University of Hawaii School of Public Health, March 1983.

Nichter, Mimi, B. Buck, Kincaid, D.L.. Development communication in the cultural context: Issues of community participation. In W. Dissanayake and A.R. Said (Eds.) Communication Research and Cultural Values. Singapore: Asian Mass Communication Research and Information Centre, 1983.

SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS

November 2019. American Anthropological Association Meetings, Vancouver. Session in Honor of Mimi Nichter.

November 2018, American Anthropological Association Meetings, Establishing community-based smoke-free homes interventions, Panel on Global Tobacco.

November 2018, Invited Panel Participant, National Institute of Alcohol and Alcohol Abuse (NIAA), Meeting on Extreme Drinking among Youth, Washington DC.

May 2017, Athens, Greece, European Network for Smoking and Tobacco Prevention, Conference on Tobacco Control. Symposia Chair, Project Quit Tobacco International: Building Capacity for Tobacco Control in Turkey.

March 2017, Engaging Nurses in Tobacco Cessation in Turkey. Paper presented at the Society for Applied Anthropology Meetings, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Session Chair, Global Addictions.

May 2016. Poster presentation (with Asli Carkoglu), Building Capacity for Illness-Specific Tobacco Cessation among Nurses and Clinical Psychologists in Turkey, Global Bridges Conference, Mayo Clinic, Minnesota.

December 2015. Facilitator and Organizer, Anthropologists in the Private and Public Sector. Session coordinated for the School of Anthropology Centennial Colloquium, Reflecting on our Past and Charting our Future, December 4, 2015.

November 2015. Social Smoking among Young Adults. Webinar delivered to 600 participants, sponsored by the Smoking Cessation Leadership Center (UCSF College of Medicine) and the Truth Initiative (Washington D.C.).

October 2015. Invited Speaker, Smoke Free Ontario, Program Training and Consultation Centre, Canada. Delivered keynote address on social smoking among young adults at the meeting on Tobacco Use Reduction for Young Adults.

April 2015. Invited Speaker, American Legacy Foundation, Washington DC. Delivered keynote on social smoking among young adults and strategies for anti tobacco advertising.

November 2015 Social Smoking among Millennials: Looking to the Future. Paper delivered at the American Anthropological Association Meetings, Denver, Co.

November 2015. Invited Discussant, Maternal “Instincts”: An Anthropological Inquiry into Intimate Maternal Relationships, American Anthropological Association Meetings, Denver, Co.

April 2015. Invited Discussant, Anthropology of Food and Nutrition: Linking the Subfields. Symposium for the School of Anthropology, University of Arizona.

March 2015. Invited Speaker, National Cancer Institute, Center for Global Health, International Tobacco Control Workshop, Ankara, Turkey, March 24-26, 2015, Tobacco Cessation Research in Turkey.

March 2015. Invited Panelist, National Cancer Institute, Center for Global Health, International Tobacco Control Workshop, Ankara, Turkey, March 24-26, 2015. Challenges and opportunities for Building Research Networks and Collaborations around Tobacco Control.

March 2014. Developing Smoke Free Homes in India and Indonesia. Invited presentation at the Arizona Global Health Conference, University of Arizona College of Medicine. (Also 2 posters were presented at this conference: Tobacco Advertising in Indonesia: Reading Culture from Advertisements; Educational Materials and Resources for Tobacco Cessation: Project Quit Tobacco International.)

November 2013. Gender, Bodies and Modernity: Exploring New Beauty Frontiers (Session Chair),

American Anthropological Association meetings. Presented paper entitled “Consuming Beauty in India’s Metros” (with Gauri Pathak).

June 2013. “I’ve got to quit before graduation:” an ethnographic study of smoking among final year college students. Society for Medical Anthropology Joint Meeting of European and US Chapters, Tarragona, Spain.

June 2013, Invited speaker. National Institutes of Health, Fogarty International Center, Improving Access to Tobacco Control: Harnessing Evidence and Capacity to Affect Policy, Center for Global Health Studies, Washington D.C.

November 2012, Paper presented at the American Anthropological Association Meetings, Nov 15-19, 2012, San Francisco. Mimi Nichter and Mark Nichter. The Practice of Ayurveda in India’s Changing Consumer Society. Paper presented at an Invited Panel (Medical Anthropology), Engaging with Biomedicine from Beyond its Borders.

June 2012. Hingle M., Nichter Mimi, Merchant N., Hongu N., Roe D., Orr B., Going S. Development and Evaluation of an Informal SMS-Based Intervention To Promote Healthy Lifestyle Behaviors In Adolescents. Society for Nutrition Education and Behavior, Washington, D.C., June 24-27, 2012, Poster Presentation.

June 2012. Going, Scott on behalf of the Stealth Health co-Principal Investigators (Mimi Nichter, Barron Orr, Kay Hongu, Denise Roe). Stealth Health: Youth Innovation, Mobile Technology, Online Social Networking, and Informal Learning to Promote Physical Activity. Society for Nutrition Education and Behavior, Washington, D.C. and the US Department of Agriculture Fundees meeting, June 24-27, 2012, Poster presentation.

February 2012. Nichter, Mimi. Project Quit Tobacco India: The Development of Smoke Free Homes. Invited 90 minute session on Quit Tobacco International (QTI): Building Capacity for Tobacco Cessation Training in India. Annual Meetings of the Indian Public Health Association, Cochin, Kerala, India.

June 2011, Invited presentation at the Institute of Social Anthropology, Basel University, Basel,

Switzerland. Symposium: Women and Tobacco: Global Perspectives.

December 2011, mHealth Summit, Washington DC, Development and Evaluation of Health messages and an SMS-based

Software delivery system for Distribution to and use by Adolescents.. Hingle M, Nichter, M. Medeiros, S.

Grace. Poster Presentation.

November 2011, Paper presented at the American Anthropological Association Meetings, Montreal, The Social Life of Yoga: Exploring Transnational Flows, in a session entitled Medical Tourism: Patients and Remedies in Transit.

April 2011, Meetings of the Society for Applied Anthropology, Texting for Health, (with Sam Grace and Melanie Medeiros)

March 2011, Invited speaker, Sarah Doyle Women’s Center, Brown University, Gender and Tobacco, March 2011.

May 2009, North American Research Conference on Complementary and Integrative Medicine, Minneapolis, MN. Session entitled “Developing patient-centered measures for outcomes of CAM therapies”. Mimi Nichter, “Using an evocative methodology in the development of a patient-centered measure of holistic change.”

Invited speaker, Conference on anthropological approaches to the study of yoga, held in Heidelberg, Germany, South Asia Institute, University of Heidelberg, December 2009.

Invited Coordinator and Discussant, 14th World Conference on Tobacco or Health, Invited session on Tobacco and Human Rights, Mumbai, India, March 2009.

Invited Discussant, 14th World Conference on Tobacco or Health, Preconference workshop on health disparities. Research to reduce tobacco-related inequalities: worldwide implications and exemplars for tobacco control, Mumbai, India, March 2009.

Invited Coordinator and Speaker, International Conference on Secondhand Smoke Exposure among Pregnant Women in Low and Middle Income Nations, National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute, September 2008.

Submitted Session (chair), Ethnographic Approaches to the Study of Emerging Adulthood. “Smoking and intentions to quit among college seniors”. Conference on Emerging Adulthood. Tucson, Az, April 2007.

Invited speaker, 13th World Conference on Tobacco or Health. “The social contexts of smoking: An anthropological perspective.” Washington DC, August 2006.

Anthropological Approaches to the Study of Tobacco and Drugs. (Session Organizer). Presented paper on “Social influences to smoke among college students” (Mimi Nichter). American Anthropological Association, Nov. 2006.

Developing culturally appropriate cessation strategies (Session organizer). Presented paper on “Developing tobacco cessation in Indonesia: Reframing advertising messages”. Paper presented at the Society for Applied Anthropology Meetings, Vancouver BC, 2005.

Session organizer, Race and ethnicity in the US. Presented paper on “Caught between Two Worlds: Growing up Indian American in the U.S.” (Mimi Nichter and Roopali Desai). American Anthropological Association.

Invited speaker, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, Department of Anthropology and Program in Public Health, Developing Tobacco Cessation in India and Indonesia: Lessons from the Field, October 2005.

Invited speaker, Case Western Reserve University, Schubert Center for Child Development and Dept of Anthropology. Body Image among Adolescent Girls. (A Public Lecture Series on Girls and Girlhood, October 13th, 2004).

Invited speaker, Emory University, Rollins School of Public Health and Department of Anthropology, Gender and Smoking, October 15th, 2004.

Invited speaker, Youth Tobacco Research Investigators Meeting, National Cancer Institute. Smoking among college students, June 2004, San Diego, California.

Invited participant, National Cancer Institute, Conference on Ethnography and Intervention: Mixing Methodologies to Strengthen Health Intervention Design and Outcome, August 2004.

Invited speaker, Pacific College Health Association Conference, invited speaker, “Smoking among College Freshmen”. Tucson, November 2003.

Invited speaker, International Health Conference, University of Arizona, College of Medicine. “Women and Tobacco: Global Perspectives”. January 2003.

Invited Keynote Address, European Children’s Film Association, November 2002, Milan, Italy. I delivered a speech at this conference for European media arts specialists, educators, and researchers of children’s health on how media influence children’s eating habits.

Invited McNutt Lecturer, University of Memphis, Department of Anthropology, “Girls and Body Image: Parental Influences”, April 2002.

Invited Speaker, Briefing of the Surgeon General’s Report on Women and Smoking to the Washington DC Community, April 2001, Washington D.C. Presented talk on “The Marketing of Tobacco to Women.” I was one of five people (the only social scientist) to present at this meeting to familiarize the business community in Washington with the findings of the Surgeon General’s Report, which had just been released. This briefing was carried live on C-SPAN.

Invited Participant. One of ten invited participants (only social scientist) in a roundtable discussion for the Pfizer Corporation, May 2001. The two-day discussion resulted in the publication of the Pfizer Journal entitled “The Invincible Teen: New Strategies to Activate Adolescent Health”, which was distributed to thousands of health care practitioners nationwide.

Invited Presenter, Decade of Behavior Launch Event, Washington, D.C., September 2000. I was one of 13 invited exhibitors, and the only anthropologist chosen to represent the American Anthropological Association, at this event held at Congress. My exhibit was entitled “Developing Healthy Lifestyles for Adolescent Girls”. The Decade of Behavior is an initiative including more than 50 societies (including the AAA) representing the behavioral and social sciences.

Invited Speaker, National Institutes of Health, Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research, Conference entitled: “Toward Higher Levels of Analysis: Progress and Promise in Research on Social and Cultural Dimensions of Health.” “Developing Healthy Body Images among Adolescent Girls”, June 2000.

Morning for Children’s Health, fund-raiser hosted by the Children’s Research Center, University of Arizona College of Medicine. My talk was entitled “Body Image among Adolescent Females: What Parents and Schools Can Do”, Tucson, Arizona (February 2001).

Arizona School Health Association, Tucson, Arizona. Discussed issues of body image among adolescent girls and prevention strategies to an audience school-based health educators from around the city (February 2001).

New Directions in Southwest Anthropology, (public lecture series cosponsored by Arizona State Museum and the Dept of Anthropology, University of Arizona), “Fat Talk: Body Image among Adolescent Girls” (March 2001).

Tobacco Education Prevention Program, Southern Arizona Regional Meeting. Gave presentation on “The Marketing of Tobacco to Women” to tobacco control activists working in Southern Arizona (April 2001).

Invited Summer Institute Faculty and Coordinator, Adolescent Health Track, Maternal and Child Health Public Health Summer Institute 2000, Fort Lewis College, Durango, Colorado, July 30-August 4, 2000. I coordinated a two day workshop on “Developing Effective Programs in Adolescent Health” for public health practitioners from the Rocky Mountain States.

World Health Organization Conference, “Making a Difference to Tobacco and Health: Avoiding the Tobacco Epidemic in Women and Youth”. Kobe, Japan, November 1999. My paper was one of 12 commissioned papers written specifically for this important conference, which brought together 800 scientists, health activists and media persons from Asia and the Pacific to heighten their awareness of the global tobacco epidemic. The conference was the opening event for the Framework Convention for Global Tobacco Control.

Conferences:

Race and ethnicity in the US. (Session organizer). Presented paper on “Caught between Two Worlds: Growing up Indian American in the U.S.” (Mimi Nichter and Roopali Desai). American Anthropological Association Meetings, November 2003.

Changing Images of Body Image: Global Implications (Session organizer). Presented paper on “Changing Images of Beauty among Young Women in South India”, Society for Applied Anthropology Meetings, Portland, Oregon, March 2003.

Gender Differences in Smoking among College Freshmen. Paper presented at the American Anthropological Association Meetings, November 2002. (Mimi Nichter, Nicole Taylor, Mark Nichter)

Smoking among Pregnant Women. Poster presented by Shelly Adrian, Mimi Nichter, Mark Nichter, Myra Muramoto, Laura Tesler, Kate Goldade. American Anthropological Association Meetings, November 2002.

Smoking among Pregnant Women: Qualitative and Quantitative Findings.(with M. Muramoto, M. Nichter, S. Adrian, L. Tesler) Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco, Savannah Georgia, Feb, 2002.

SELECTED GRANTS AND CONTRACTS:

FEDERAL:

Co-Principal Investigator, “Building Capacity for Tobacco Cessation in India and Indonesia” (PI, Mark Nichter, UA). $1.4 million, 2007-2013 (extension until 2017).

Co Principal Investigator, United States Dept of Agriculture (USDA), “Stealth Health: Youth Innovation, Mobile Technology, Online Social Networking and Informal Learning to Promote Nutrition and Physical Activity” (PI, Scott Going, Department of Nutritional Sciences, UA)

$1.5 million, 2009-2012.

Co-Principal Investigator, National Institutes of Health, Fogarty International Center, Cessation Research and Training in India and Indonesia. (PI, Harry Lando, University of Minnesota), $1.3 million, UA subcontract $302,000, 2002-2007.

Co-Principal Investigator, National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute. Training Complementary and Alternative Medicine Practitioners in Tobacco Cessation. (PI, Myra Muramoto, Department of Family and Community Medicine, UA) $1.4 million, 2009-2014.

Co-Principal Investigator, National Institutes of Health, National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine., Developing Patient-Centered Measures for Outcomes of CAM Therapies. (PI: Cheryl Ritenbaugh, Department of Family and Community Medicine, UA) $675,000, 2006-2009.

Co Principal Investigator, National Cancer Institute, Community Based Training Models for Tobacco Cessation. (PI: Myra Muramoto, Department of Family and Community Medicine, UA). $4.5 million, 2002-2006.

STATE:

University of Arizona, Provost Author Support Program, Funding toward the publication of Lighting Up: The Rise of Social Smoking on College Campuses ($500).

Udall Public Policy Fellowship, University of Arizona, Fall 2007. Reducing Smoking among College Students: Developing Appropriate Policies (release from teaching).

Principal Investigator, University of Arizona, Faculty Small Grant Program, Ethnographic Analysis of Videotaped Interviews on Smoking Cessation, 2004-05 ($7,800).

PRIVATE FOUNDATIONS:

Global Bridges, Mayo Clinic, Building Capacity for Illness-Specific Tobacco Cessation among Nurses and Clinical Psychologists in Turkey. $200,000, December 2014-December 2019.

Faculty Scholar, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Tobacco Etiology Research Network, 1999-2004.

Co Principal Investigator (with Mark Nichter), Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Grant in Support of Research on Freshman College Smoking Trajectories. 2001–2003, $66,000.

Co Principal Investigator, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Smoke-Free Families. “Mapping the Natural History of Smoking and Smoking Cessation among Pregnant Women” (PI Myra Muramoto, Dept of Family and Community Medicine, UA). 15 FTE, $230,000, 2000-2003.

Co Principal Investigator (with Mark Nichter), Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Tobacco Etiology Research Network, “Patterns of adolescent tobacco use in California and Arizona, .05 FTE, $69,000, 1999-2001.

Principal Investigator, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Grant to conduct follow-up interviews with Teen Lifestyle Project participants on smoking and dieting behaviors, .07 FTE, $50,000, 1997-1999.

Principal Investigator. American Institute of Indian Studies, Senior Research Scholar Award. Adolescent Tobacco Use in South India (1998).

MEDIA COVERAGE:

My national research on emerging adults and adolescents has been widely covered in the media. I have been honored to present my work twice in Washington DC—once in Congress, and once to the American Legacy Foundation, a Washington thinktank (that developed the Truth campaign), to discuss how best to launch media campaigns to discourage youth from smoking.

Fat Talk remains in the news regularly on blogs, social media sites, and in scholarly publications. To date, at least 25 scholarly articles and 3 books (across a range of disciplines including communications, psychology, and public health) have continued my initial work. A social movement called “End Fat Talk” was formally launched in 2011 and is now on college campuses across the US and UK.

Following publication of “Smoking and drinking among college students: It’s a package deal”, the findings of the article were featured on websites and in newspapers including in politicsdaily.com (a politics website for journalists), Tobacco News (tobacco.org newsletter), physorg.com (newsletter for research on physical sciences), Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco website, the Arizona Wildcat, the University of Arizona website, Arizona Cat’s Eye, and other media sources.

The research findings of my longitudinal study on body image, dieting and smoking among adolescent girls (the Teen Lifestyle Project) and of my book, Fat Talk, have been widely disseminated in the popular press. My work has also been featured in major newspapers and syndicated columns including: the New York Times (Anna Quindlan), Washington Post, Independent on Sunday (London), Minneapolis Star Tribune, Toronto Globe and Mail, the Atlanta Journal, Newsday (New York), Clarion Ledger (Jackson, Mississippi), Arizona Daily Star, Dallas News, Orlando Sentinel, Tucson Weekly and many other newspapers nationwide and abroad.

I have discussed the findings of our research on the Australian Public Radio, BBC, National Public Radio, Canadian Public Radio, the Radio Health Journal, New Zealand Public Radio, and a host of other radio programs around the country. I have appeared on TV and national news stations discussing the findings of various aspects of my research on adolescent body image, dieting and smoking. Findings of my research have been developed into segments for national programs including Nickelodeon News, 20/20, and John Stossel’s Common Sense.

CONSULTANCIES

Across many years, I have worked as a consultant for USAID (India), Research Triangle International (in Sri Lanka), UNICEF (India), Ford Foundation (India), WHO (South Asia, Southeast Asia).