Thurka Sangaramoorthy
Thurka Sangaramoorthy is professor of anthropology at American University. She is a cultural anthropologist with expertise in medical anthropology and epidemiology. Her research focuses on improving care for those living with HIV, developing more effective care systems for non-citizen immigrants, amplifying local community expertise as a transformative tool for enacting policies and practices that effectively address disparate environmental risks in communities of color, and advocating for social justice. Her writings on these topics appear in a wide range of scholarly and mainstream publications. She is also the author of Rapid Ethnographic Assessments: A Practical Approach and Toolkit for Collaborative Community Research (Routledge, 2020) and Treating AIDS: Politics of Difference, Paradox of Prevention (Rutgers University Press, 2014)
Latest articles
page 1 of 2What Rural America Can Learn from Haitian Immigrants
Immigrant communities have developed sophisticated survival strategies. Those lessons can serve rural people facing their own crisis of abandonment.
Networks of Care: How Rural Immigrants Build Community
When formal systems fail, mutual aid sustains rural life
When Language Becomes a Barrier to Health Care
Lack of interpreters and clinician bias creates unequal access for rural immigrants
Band-Aid Care: When Keeping Rural People Healthy Requires Creative Solutions
Improvised networks of health care remain a lifeline for communities that formal systems have failed
The Unseen Workers Behind Maryland’s Iconic Blue Crabs
The labor of immigrant women sustains a cherished cultural tradition
Beyond Legal Status: Rethinking Immigration and Health in Rural America
For immigrants on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, documentation does not guarantee access to health care