Juliana McDonald | University of Kentucky College of Arts & Sciences

Juliana McDonald

Associate Professor

2023 SfAA Annual Meeting Program Chair

Director of Undergraduate Studies

SfAA Oral History Project Committee

UK World Religions Minor Steering Committee

Dept. of Anthropology Alumni Committee

Contact Information

jmcdo2@uky.edu

201E Lafferty Hall

40506-0024

8592572710

Research Interests

Transportation
Environmental Justice
ageism
successful aging
France
North Africa/Morocco

Affiliations

Anthropology
Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA)
Association for Anthropology
Gerontology
and the LIfe Course (AAGE)
American Institute for Maghrib Studies (AIMS)

Society for Applied Anthropology
AAGE
AIMS
Dar Si Hmad Ethnographic Field School

Research

I received the Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Kentucky in 2000. As a graduate student, I was Research Assistant with the Sanders-Brown Center on Aging on a three year ethnographic research project of family decision making in nursing homes in Kentucky. While working on the project, I researched social networks of nursing home residents for an M.A. thesis. I conducted research in Morocco in North Africa on aging in rural and urban areas. From 1996 to 2000, I worked at Wake Forest University School of Medicine/Section on Epidemiology, Winston-Salem, North Carolina. I lived in a large agricultural county where I conducted ethnographic research with European-American, African-American, and (Lumbee) Native American elders on nutrition and health practices. During this time, I conducted my dissertation research on aging and agricultural practices of farmers and became interested in tobacco production. I joined the faculty of the UK Department of Anthropology in 2005. Since 2006, I have worked with the Lexington Fayette Urban County Government, the Kentucky Department of Transportation, and the Federal Highway Administration on environmental justice mitigation for an historical neighorhood impacted by the Newtown Pike Extension, a major road project in Lexington. I completed a social needs assessment in 2006 and am currently conducting an evaluation of the overall project. I currently serve on the Board of Directors of the Lexington Community Land Trust which was formed as part of the mitigation to protect the neighborhood and build affordable housing for past and future residents.

Undergraduate Supervisory Activity:

Internships
Independent Studies

Courses Regularly Taught:

ANT101: Introduction to Anthropology
ANT160: Cultural Diversity in the Modern World-Global Dynamics
ANT220: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
ANT302: Ethnographic Methods
ANT331: North Africa: Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia
ANT335: Religion in Everyday Life
ANT337: Global Aging
ANT525: Applied Anthropology Seminar

Selected Publications

Selected Publications:

2022 Clay-Young, P., McDonald, J., Tucker, S., Whitworth, D., and Dupont, B. “Doing the Right Thing: Building a Road and Preserving a Community – The Newtown Pike Extension Project,” Federal Highway Administration, Public Roads Spring 2022, p. 16 – 25. https://highways.dot.gov/public-roads/public-roads-magazine-spring-2022
2020 McDonald, J. “Valuable Voices: Teaching with the Society for Applied Anthropology Oral History Project,” Practicing Anthropology Vol 42(3):48-51.
2020 McDonald, J. “Family and Household, Migration, and Conflict Management in Central America, the Caribbean, and the US Southwest: A SfAA Oral History Interview with Nancie Loudon Gonzalez,” SfAA Newsletter 30:1 (February).
2020 McDonald, J. Oral History Interview with Gwynn Henderson, SfAA Oral History Project, UK Nunn Center for Oral History, Online at: https://kentuckyoralhistory.org/ark:/16417/xt7152kwj7vnt
2019 McDonald, J. Oral History Interview with Jim Stansbury. SfAA Oral History Project, UK Nunn Center for Oral History, Online at: https://kentuckyoralhistory.org/ark:/16417/xt71m7s0wlb7w
2009 McDonald, J. Bulldozers, Land and the Bottom: Environmental Justice and a Rapid Assessment Process. Practicing Anthropology 31(1):4-8.
2006 McDonald, J. Social Needs Assessment: Davis Bottom, Lexington, KY, Newtown Pike Extension and Southend Park Urban Village Report to Lexington Fayette County Government, KY Transportation Cabinet.