Department of

Anthropology

Department of Anthropology
Old Main 330, University of Arkansas
Fayetteville, AR 72701
Phone: (479) 575-2508; Fax: (479) 575-6595
E-mail: chitt@uark.edu
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Dr. Schneider joined the anthropology faculty at the University in 1969. Her dissertation was an ethnographic study of a predominantly black rural community in eastern Arkansas. In the study, she examined the human effects of agricultural mechanization and the shift from agricultural to industrial employment. Much of Dr. Schneider's early research was funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Department of Education and focused on issues such as health care, education, and disability among rural minority populations in the Southern U.S. (especially Arkansas).

Dr. Schneider teaches courses in anthropological theory, Southern U.S. culture, and gender. A former department chair, she received the University of Arkansas Alumni Association Faculty Distinguished Achievement Award. Dr. Schneider is a past chair of the University Faculty, the Campus Council, and the Committee on Tenure. She is a member of the Teaching Academy and has received recognition for teaching from Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences.

Dr. Schneider is the author or co-author of more than 50 articles and 40 technical reports and has received more than $225,000 in grant support.

Publications

(with J.M. Nolan) Healing in the hills: Health-seeking through recreational travel in rural Arkansas' Ozark and Ouachita Mountains. In, J. Bose and Bl Sumathi (eds.), Medical Tourism: Perspectives and Specific Country Experiences. Hyperadad, India: Icfai University Press, 2008, 278-291.

The Wal-Mart annual meeting: From small-town America to global corporate culture. Human Organization 57(3):292-299, 1998.

(with B. Green) A demographic and economic comparison of nonmetropolitan retirement and non-retirement counties. J. of Applied Sociology, 1992.

(with R. Reeder & B. Green) Attracting retirees as a development strategy. In D. Barkley (ed.), Economic Adaptation: Alternatives for Nonmetropolitan Areas. Boulder: Westview Press, 1992.

(with W. Schneider) Male/female districtions among Selako. In V. Sutlive, ed. Female and Male in Borneo. Borneo Research Council, 1992.

(with D. Chapman & D. Voth) Senior center participation: A two-stage approach to impact evaluation. The Gerontologist, 1985.

(with B. Green) Adjustment stresses on rural laborers in the Mississippi Delta and the Ozarks. Growth and Change, 1978.