Doctoral Dissertation Research: Intersections of nationality and recovery status in shaping gender

戒毒康复中心的数量激增，以帮助社区对抗成瘾和相关问题。这些中心在多民族地区越来越普遍，提供了一个机会来了解国家地位和恢复过程如何共同作用，塑造个人如何理解和联系不同的性别概念，以及性别和国籍如何反馈到恢复过程中，影响其成功和持续时间。这项研究借鉴了社会科学研究中关于吸毒、性别和国籍的研究，以调查不同国籍的人是否以及以何种方式将阳刚之气和康复联系在一起。除了培养科学文化人类学的研究生外，本研究还将其工作广泛地传播给学术和非学术受众以及感兴趣的利益相关者。在12个月的时间里，研究人员在不同的康复中心、康复中的吸毒者和他们的家庭中进行了参与者观察、半结构化访谈和话语分析。研究人员分析了占主导地位的男性意识形态如何与康复的各个阶段联系在一起，以及男性气概的表达如何在不同的环境中发生变化，从非常私密的到非常社交的，以及在不同国籍的个体中发生变化。这样做为主要关注同一国籍的男性和女性之间的差异的康复理论提供了重要的细微差别，并随着与吸毒康复相关的行为和信仰的改变而改变了男子气概的概念。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Drug rehabilitation centers have proliferated to assist communities fighting addiction and associated problems. These centers are increasingly common in areas with mixed nationalities, offering an opportunity to understand how national status and the process of recovery work together to shape how individuals understand and relate to different notions of gender, and how gender and nationality feedback on the recovery process to affect its success and duration. The study draws from social scientific research addressing drug addiction, gender, and nationality to investigate whether, and in what ways, masculinity and recovery are intertwined among individuals with varying nationalities. In addition to training a graduate student in scientific cultural anthropology, this research disseminates its work broadly to academic and non-academic audiences and interested stakeholders. Over twelve months, the researchers conduct participant-observation, semi-structured interviews, and discourse analysis across a variety of rehabilitation centers, and among recovering drug users and their families. The researchers analyze how dominant masculine ideologies connect to various phases of recovery, and how expressions of masculinity change across different settings, from very private to very social, and among individuals of different nationalities. Doing so offers important nuance to theories of recovery that focus primarily on differences between men and women of the same nationality, and to changing conceptions of masculinity as behavior and beliefs change in association with recovery from drug use.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.