Advancing Quality and Uniform Access through the Social Sciences

The AQUASS Research Lab uses interdisciplinary social science frameworks, methods, and approaches to conduct basic and applied research to broaden access to healthcare and education.

Rebecca Campbell-Montalvo

PhD

Assistant Professor and Lab Director

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  • Campbell-Montalvo, Rebecca. 2023. “The Latinization of Indigenous Students”. Lexington Books.

    Based upon research in rural central Florida, The Latinization of Indigenous Students examines how schools perceive and process demographic information, including how those perceptions may erase Indigeneity and impact resource access. Based on multiyear fieldwork, Campbell-Montalvo argues that languages and racial identities of Indigenous Latinx students and families may be re-formed by schools, erasing Indigeneity. However, programs such as the federally funded Migrant Education Program can foster equitable access by encouraging pedagogies that position teachers as cultural insiders or learners. Anchored by pertinent anthropological theories, this work advances our ability to name and explain pedagogical phenomena and their role in rectifying or reproducing colonialism among marginalized and minoritized groups.

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  • Campbell-Montalvo, Rebecca, and Heide Castañeda. 2019. “School Employees As Health Care Brokers for Multiply-Marginalized Migrant Families”. Medical Anthropology 38 (8): 733-46.

    Structural vulnerability illuminates how social positionings shape outcomes for marginalized individuals, like migrant farmworkers, who are often Latino, indigenous, and/or undocumented. Furthering scholarship on negotiating constraints, we explore how school employees (here, Migrant Advocates) broker health care access for migrant farmworker families. Ethnographic research in central Florida showed that Advocates perform similar functions as community health workers while experiencing similar dilemmas. We propose combining medical anthropological insights with the CDC's Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Childmodel, conceptualizing schools as an important site for families' wellbeing, recognizing brokerage roles of staff, and offering new directions for migrant health scholars.