SCHOLARLY INTERESTS

Native American Studies; health disparities; racial and ethnic identity; medical communication; religion.

ACADEMIC PROFILE 

Dr. Garroutte received her Ph.D. in sociology from Princeton University in 1993 and is now an associate professor of sociology at Boston College. An enrolled citizen of the Cherokee Nation, Dr. Garroutte has a background of research and publication related to the study of Native American issues, health and aging, racial/ethnic identity, and religion.

Past publications include a book, Real Indians: Identity and the Survival of Native America, and various articles in sociological and health-related journals.

In collaboration with Cherokee Nation Health Services, Dr. Garroutte has conducted a series of research projects funded by the National Institute on Aging to examine medical communication needs among American Indian elders using tribal clinics. Currently, she is a co-investigator on three projects funded by the National Cancer Institute to address cancer disparities in American Indians by (1) implementing culturally-tailored interventions targeted to specific tribal populations, and (2) training a cadre of American Indian post-doctoral researchers to continue such work. Another ongoing project explores the dynamics of an urban American Indian community through the life histories of its members. Dr. Garroutte’s current service on editorial advisory boards includes the Journal of Native Aging and Health, the American Indian Quarterly, and the University of Arizona Press series, Critical Issues in Indigenous Studies. She is a past Area Commissioner of Indian Affairs in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

COURSES TYPICALLY TAUGHT 

SC037 - Introduction to American Indian Societies
SC072 - Inequality in America
SC001- Introduction to Sociology
SC555 - Senior Honors Seminar 

PROFESSIONAL HONORS AND AWARDS 

Dr. Garroute’s book Real Indians: Identity and the Survival of Native America was chosen as the subject of an Author Meets Critics" panel at the 2011 meetings of the Pacific Sociological Association in Seattle, WA. 

As co-investigator with researchers at the University of Washington at Seattle, Dr. Garroutte was awarded funding from the National Cancer Institute in 2010 for the following research projects: 

1. Center for Native Population Health Disparities (1 P50 CA148110-01/CA-09-001, PI Buchwald), National Cancer Institute (05/01/2010-03/31/2015)
2. Regional Native American Community Networks Program (CA-05-012, PI Buchwald and Henderson). National Cancer Institute (09/15/2010-08/31/2015)

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Goins, R. Turner, Eva Marie Garroutte, Susan Leading Fox, Sarah Geiger, and Spero M. Manson. (2011). Theory and Practice in Participatory Research: Lessons from the Native Elder Care Study. The Gerontologist 51(3): 285-294.

Perdue, David G., Henderson, Jeffrey A., Garroutte, Eva M., Bogart, Andrew, Wen, Yang, Goldberg, Jack and Buchwald, Dedra (Forthcoming 2011). Culture and Colorectal Cancer Screening on Three American Indian Reservations. Ethnicity and Disease.

Gonzales, A., Ton, Thanh G. N., Garroutte, E. M., and Buchwald, D. (2011). Perceived Cancer Risk among American Indians: Implications for Intervention Research. Ethnicity and Disease 20(4):458-62.

Garroutte, E., Beals, J., Keane, E. M., Kaufman, C., Spicer, P., Henderson, J., Henderson, P. N., Mitchell, C. M., Manson, S. M., and the AI-SUPERPFP Team.  (Sept. 2009). Religiosity and Spirituality in Two American Indian Populations. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 48(3):480-500.

Garroutte, Eva Marie and Kathleen Dolores Westcott.  (2008). The Stories are Very Powerful: A Native American Perspective on Health, Illness and Narrative. Pp. 163-84. In Religion and Healing in Native America. (Ed., Suzanne Crawford).  Westport, Conn.: Praeger Press.

Garroutte, E. M., Sarkisian, N., Buchwald, D., Goldberg, J., and Beals, J. (2008, July). Perceptions of medical interaction between providers and American Indian older adults. Social Science and Medicine 67:546-556.

Garroutte, Eva Marie. (2008, July). American Indian art as instrument of intellectual sovereignty.  Pp. 225-42. In Ulrike Wiethaus, ed. Foundations of First Peoples' Sovereignty: History, Education and Culture. New York: Peter Lang Publishing USA.

Garroutte, E. M. (2005). Defining Radical indigenism‚ and creating an American Indian scholarship. Pp. 169-98. In Stephen Pfohl, Aimee Van Wagenen, Patricia Arend, Abigail Brooks, and Denise Leckenby, eds. Culture, power, and history: Studies in critical sociology. Boston: Brill Academic Publishers.

Manson, S. M., Garroutte, E. M., Goins, R. T., Henderson, P. N. (2004, Nov.). Access, relevance and control in the research process: Lessons from Indian Country. Journal of Aging and Health 16(5 Suppl): 58S-77S.

Garroutte, E. (2003). Real Indians: Identity and the survival of Native America.  Berkeley, CA: University California.