Cameron Hay Rollins
Professor and Chair – Anthropology and Global Health Studies, Miami University Ohio.
Associate Research Anthropologist, UCLA.
PhD cultural anthropology (Emory University)
MA Anthropology (Emory University)
BA Anthropology (Grinnell College)
Books
Remembering to Live: Illness at the Intersection of Anxiety and Knowledge in Rural Indonesia (University of Michigan Press, 2001)
Methods that Matter: integrating Mixed Methods for More Effective Social Science Research (editor) (Univ Chicago Press, 2016).
Biography
Cameron Hay Rollins is a cultural anthropologist and Professor and Chair of anthropology and global health studies at Miami University, Ohio. She received her PhD in anthropology at Emory University, and centered her research on addressing di
Cameron Hay-Rollins is Professor and Chair in the Department of Anthropology at Miami University. She also directs the Global Health Research Innovation Center and coordinates the Global Health minor at Miami University. Cameron simultaneously maintains an adjunct position as Associate Research Anthropologist at UCLA.
At Miami, she created and teaches courses in Medical Anthropology, Psychological Anthropology, Ethnographic Field Methods, as well as introductory courses in cultural anthropology. She also lead colleagues in an effort to establish a minor in Global Health, in which she teaches courses such as Data and Decisions in Global Health, and a capstone in grant writing.
Cameron’s research focuses on biocultural approaches to illness, cultural dimensions of health and global health, health literacy and knowledge distribution in health care, healer-patient communication, autoimmune and chronic diseases, illness experience and patient behavior including adherence, women’s and children’s health, and mixed methods research. She has done research in Indonesia and the United States.
Professionally, she is known as M. Cameron Hay. She has written one ethnography entitled Remembering to Live: Illness at the Intersection of Knowledge and Anxiety in Rural Indonesia (2001, University of Michigan), edited a collected volume entitled Methods that Matter: Integrating Mixed Methods for More Effective Social Science Research (2016, University of Chicago), and she has published numerous articles in anthropology and medical journals as well as in edited volumes.
She has received several awards and grants including a large National Science Foundation Advance Fellows Award for her Internet, Health Experience and Clinical Interactions Study as well as the Miami University Distinguished Scholar Award.
She has numerous ongoing collaborative research projects to understand patient everyday lives and find ways to improve wellbeing.
she has worked in Indonesia and has ongoing research in the United States, Zambia, and India focusing on how people understand, communicate about, and seek to manage health concerns in everyday life.