kenneth maes
Title: Postdoctoral Research Associate, PSTC
Research Interests:Maes' dissertation is entitled "Social Determinants of Food Insecurity and Common Mental Disorder among Volunteer AIDS Caregivers in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia." For his dissertation he: developed qualitative and quantitative methods; directed longitudinal survey, qualitative in-depth interviews, and participant observation; trained and supervised Ethiopian research assistants; and advised Masters in Public Health thesis at the Addis Continental Institute of Public Health.
Background:
Maes received his PhD in Biocultural/Medical Anthropology from Emory University in 2010.
Recent Publications:
Maes, Kenneth C., Craig Hadley, Fikru Tesfaye, Selamawit Shifferaw. Food insecurity and mental health show surprising trends among community health volunteers in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia during the 2008 food crisis. Social Science & Medicine. (Accepted)
Maes, Kenneth C., Selamawit Shifferaw, Craig Hadley. Volunteer home-based HIV/AIDS care and food crisis in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: Sustainability in the face of chronic food insecurity. Health Policy & Planning. (Accepted)
Williams-Maes, Cari and Kenneth Maes. “The marvelous city and the garden of refuse.” In Environmental Health Narratives: A Reader for Youth. E. Mendenhall, ed. University of New Mexico Press. (Accepted)
Maes, Kenneth C. “We will continue volunteering, but how can we live with this life condition?” Displacing the myth of the selfless community health volunteer in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Submitted for the 2010 Peter K. New Prize of the Society for Applied Anthropology and publication in Human Organization. (Submitted)
Brown, Peter J., Kenneth C. Maes, and George Armelagos. Humans in a world of microbes: The anthropology of infectious disease. In A Companion to Medical Anthropology. M. Singer, P. Erickson, eds. Wiley. (In press)
Maes, Kenneth C., Craig Hadley, Fikru Tesfaye, Selamawit Shifferaw, Yihenew Tesfaye. Food insecurity among volunteer AIDS caregivers in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia was highly prevalent but buffered from the 2008 food crisis. Journal of Nutrition 139(9): 1758-1764. 2009.
Maes, Kenneth C. and G. Okpattah. “The Accident.” In Global Health Narratives: A Reader for Youth. E. Mendenhall, J. Wernly, and A. Holby, eds. University of New Mexico Press. pp. 169-175. http://sites.google.com/a/globalhealthnarratives4change.org/home/Home. 2009
Turner, Beth, Kenneth C. Maes, Jennifer Sweeney, and George Armelagos. Human Evolution, Diet and Nutrition: When Bodies meet the Buffet. In Evolutionary Medicine and Health: New Perspectives. W.R. Trevathan, E.O. Smith, and J.J. McKenna, eds. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 55-71. 2007.
Armelagos, George J. and Kenneth C. Maes. The Slavery Hypertension Hypothesis: Reply to Fatimah Jackson’s Response to George Armelagos’ Commentary. Transforming Anthropology 14 (1): 67-76. 2006.
Levy, T., M. Najjar, A. Muniz, S.Malena, E. Monroe, M. Beherec, N.Smith, T. Higham, S. Munger and Kenneth Maes. Iron Age burials in the lowlands of Edom: The 2004 excavations at Wadi Fidan 40, Jordan. Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan 49: 443-487. 2005.