Alyshia Gálvez

Academic Interests

Public health, cultural and medical anthropology, migration, performance, citizenship, reproduction, religion, Latin America, and Latinxs in the United States
Former founding director of the Mexican Studies Institute at CUNY
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Research

Gálvez is a cultural and medical anthropologist with specializations in the areas of immigration and migration, citizenship and rights, Mexico and Mexican populations, Latin America, and Latin@s in the United States, trade, health, health disparities, reproduction, chronic disease, religion, and performance.

Awards and Honors

2021 - Lehman College Professors of Excellence Award
2017 - Book Completion Award. CUNY. “Eating NAFTA: Trade and Food Policies and the Destruction of Mexico,” Funding for the period of May 1, 2017 – April 30, 2018.
2009 Faculty Recognition Award in Research and Scholarship in the Division of Arts and Humanities, Lehman College, May 13, 2009.

Publications

Books

2018 Eating NAFTA: Trade, Food Policies and the Destruction of Mexico, Berkeley: University of California Press.
2012 Guadalupe en Nueva York. Puebla, Mexico: Editorial Iberomericana.
2011 Patient Citizens, Immigrant Mothers. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, Critical Issues in Health and Medicine Series. Winner of 2012 ALLA (Association of Latino and Latin American Anthropologists) Book Award.
2009 Guadalupe in New York: Devotion and the Struggle for Citizenship Rights among Mexican Immigrants. New York and London: New York University Press.

Documentary

2018 ¡Salud! Myths and Realities of Mexican Migration, full length documentary film project produced with collaborator David Schwittek of Lehman College, footage to date in Puebla, Mexico and New York State.

Recent Peer-reviewed Articles

Hernández, M., Gálvez, A., Verdaguer, S., Torres-González, J. A., Derose, K. P., & Flórez, K. R. (2024). “There is No Time” to be a Good Biocitizen: Lived Experiences of Stress and Physical Activity Among Mexican Immigrants in New York City. Sage Open, 14(2). https://doi.org/10.1177/21582440241252236.
2023 Miller, S., de la Haye, K., Bell, B., Gálvez, A., Rupp, S., & Flórez, K. R. (2023). Food Insecurity, Dietary Quality, and the Role of Social Network Support and Barriers Among Immigrant Latino Adults in New York City. Journal of Hunger & Environmental Nutrition, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1080/19320248.2023.2199681.
2023 Flórez K.R., Bell B.M., Gálvez A., Hernández M., Verdaguer S. & de la Haye K., “Nosotros mismos nos estamos matando/We are the ones killing ourselves: Unraveling individual and network characteristics associated with negative dietary acculturation among Mexican Americans in New York City,” Appetite, doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2023.106488.
2023 Hardin, Jessica; Saldaña-Tejeda, Abril; Gálvez, Alyshia; Yates-Doerr, Emily; Garth, Hanna; Dickinson, Maggie; Carney, Megan; Valdez, Natali; “Short take: Duo-ethnographic Methods: A Feminist Take on Collaborative Research” Field Methods. Published March 2023. https://doi.org/10.1177/1525822X23115889
2022 Valdez, N., Carney, M., Yates-Doerr, E., Saldaña-Tejeda, A., Hardin, J., Garth, H., Gálvez, A. and Dickinson, M. (2022), Duoethnography as Transformative Praxis: Conversations about Nourishment and Coercion in the COVID-Era Academy. Feminist Anthropology, Named a “Top Downloaded Article” in first twelve months of publication, for Feminist Anthropology by Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/fea2.12085
2021 Saldaña, Sandra and Alyshia Gálvez. ““I’m not like that”: Navigating stereotypes, social contexts, and identity among people who follow restrictive dietary regimens,” Food Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 11 (2): 1-20. doi:10.18848/2160-1933/CGP/v11i02/1-20.
2021 Gálvez, A. “I won’t tell my story: narrative capital and refusal among undocumented activists in the Trump era,” chapter for book, Trumpism, Mexican America, and the Struggle for Latinx Citizenship, Phillip Gonzales, Renato Rosaldo, and Mary Louise Pratt, editors, School for Advanced Research, New Mexico, September 2021, https://sarweb.org/trumpism-mexican-america-and-the-struggle-for-latinx-citizenship/
2021 Gálvez, A. “Paqueteros and paqueteras: Humanizing a dehumanized food system,” Gastronomica. Issue 21.1, Spring
2021, https://doi.org/10.1525/gfc.2021.21.1.27

2021 Gálvez, A. “Paqueteros and paqueteras: Humanizing a dehumanized food system,” Gastronomica. Issue 21.1, Spring 2021, https://doi.org/10.1525/gfc.2021.21.1.27
2020 Bravo, Lizbeth; Edith Carrasco; Kathryn Chuber; Daisy Flores; and Gálvez, A., “Teaching and learning with intimidating texts: How we came to love a difficult book” Teaching and Learning Anthropology journal, Vol 3 (1), July 2020. https://doi.org/10.5070/T33143605
2020 Gálvez, A. “Taking Susto Seriously: A Critique of Behavioral Approaches to Diabetes,” and “Chronic Disaster: Reimagining Noncommunicable Chronic Disease” with Megan Carney and Emily Yates-Doerr In Vital Topics Forum: Chronic Disaster: Reimagining NonCommunicable Chronic Disease, The Nutrire CoLab (Diana Burnett; Megan A. Carney; Lauren Carruth; Sarah Chard; Maggie Dickinson; Alyshia Gálvez; Hanna Garth; Jessica Hardin; Adele Hite; Heather Howard; Lenore Manderson; Emily Mendenhall; Abril Saldaña-Tejeda; Dana Simmons; Natali Valdez; Emily Vasquez; Megan Warin; Emily Yates-Doerr). American Anthropologist, Sept. 2020. DOI: 10.1111/aman.13443 and 10.1111/aman.13437.
2019 Gálvez, A. “Transnational mother blame: Protecting and caring in a globalized context,” Medical Anthropology, Published online 10/3/2019. DOI: 10.1080/01459740.2019.1653866.
2019 Gálvez, A. “Efficiency,” in “Rural Social Forms,” A special issue of the Journal for the Anthropology of North America, Edited by Alex Blanchette and Marcel LaFlamme, Published Nov. 20, 2019. 10.1002/nad.12096
2019 Gálvez, A. and Luque Brazan, J.C.. “Capitalismo de chupacabras en una era post-política y post-migratoria,” Huellas de la Migración, [S.l.], v. 4, n. 7, p. 109-138, jul. 2019. ISSN 2594-2832.
2018 “Critical understandings of children's rights: an inductive approach” for the edited volume, International Perspectives on Practice and Research into Children's Rights, BAICE (the British affiliate of the World Council of Comparative Education Societies). (PDF)

Other Recent Publications

2021 Gálvez, A. “The Future Is Now: Alyshia Gálvez and Sean Sherman On Building Indigenous Futures,” Mold Magazine, April 8, 2021, https://thisismold.com/degrowth/degrowth-indigenous-food-labs-sean-sherman.
2020 Gálvez, A. “In Central Park, White Privilege Has Been Weaponized Before,” The New York Daily News, May 27, 2020, https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-oped-racist-central-park-white-privilege-20200527-pgvvyowcbfcrnp2cjoivigwxdm-story.html.
2020 The Nutrire CoLab (Diana Burnett; Megan A. Carney; Lauren Carruth; Sarah Chard; Maggie Dickinson; Alyshia Gálvez; Hanna Garth; Jessica Hardin; Adele Hite; Heather Howard; Lenore Manderson; Emily Mendenhall; Abril Saldaña-Tejeda; Dana Simmons; Natali Valdez; Emily Vasquez; Megan Warin; Emily Yates-Doerr). “Anthropologists Respond to The Lancet EAT Commission” Bionatura, Published online 01/05/2020, http://dx.doi.org/10.21931/RB/2020.05.01.2.
2020 Gálvez, A. “Food for Healing: Food Sovereignty Movements in Mexican and Mexican-American Communities,” in Religion in Mexico and Mexican-American Communities, blog of the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs, Georgetown University, Jan. 3, 2020.

Grants (Recent)

2019 CUNY Interdisciplinary Research Grant (IRG) Program, entitled “Social networks and dietary patterns of food insecure immigrant Latino families”, Co-PIs Karen Flórez, CUNY School of Public Health, Gálvez and Stephanie Rupp, Lehman College. Funding for the period of September 1, 2019 – January 2021.
2019 Institute of Latin American Studies at Columbia, Orjuela (PI) 7/1/19-6/30/21 Immigrant Adherence to Traditional Mexican Diet and Food Preparation in CRyS study. Goal: to use an interdisciplinary working group to classify adherence to traditional Mexican diet and food preparation in a population of first generation Mexican immigrants in NYC
2019 Taking Stock: The Shifting Terrain of Citizenship among People of Mexican Origin in the United States, Phillip Gonzales and Renato Rosaldo, editors, School for Advanced Research, New Mexico, March 9-16, 2019.
2018 NIH Grant titled “Social network influences on diabetes-related health behaviors among Mexican-Americans adults across the acculturation spectrum”, PI: Karen Florez, Department of Environmental, Occupational and Geospatial Sciences, CUNY SPH. NIH, PAR-16-064 ‘Small Grants for New Investigators to Promote Diversity in Health-Research (R21).’