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

戒毒中心激增，以帮助社区与毒瘾和相关问题作斗争。这些中心在民族混杂的地区越来越普遍，提供了一个机会，了解国家地位和恢复进程如何共同影响个人对不同性别观念的理解和联系，以及性别和国籍对恢复进程的反馈如何影响恢复进程的成功和持续时间。这项研究借鉴了涉及吸毒成瘾、性别和国籍的社会科学研究，以调查不同国籍的人是否以及以何种方式将男子气概和康复联系在一起。除了在科学文化人类学方面培训研究生，这项研究还向学术和非学术受众以及感兴趣的利益相关者广泛传播其工作。在超过12个月的时间里，研究人员在不同的康复中心以及康复吸毒者及其家人中进行了参与者观察、半结构访谈和话语分析。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不同阶段联系在一起，以及男性气概的表达如何在不同的环境中变化，从非常私密到非常社交，以及在不同国籍的个人之间。这样做为康复理论提供了重要的细微差别，这些理论主要关注同一国籍的男性和女性之间的差异，以及随着与戒毒相关的行为和信念的变化而改变的男子气概概念。这一奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力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.