Christianne Stephens

Sessional Assistant Professor

2048 Vari Hall

4700 Keele Street

North York, ON M3J 1P3

Phone: 416-736-2100 Ext. 77786

E-mail: stephecv@yorku.ca

Dr. Christianne Stephens is a medical anthropologist who specializes in the anthropology of health and Indigenous health. She is also trained as a health geographer, having recently completed a SSHRC (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada)-supported Postdoctoral Fellowship in the School of Geography and Earth Sciences at McMaster University.

Dr. Stephens has been conducting ethnographic fieldwork and collaborative, community-based research at Walpole Island First Nation (Canada) for the past decade. Her research looks at various aspects of Aboriginal community health and well-being, including mental health, risk perception and risk communication, ecosystem health and environmental illness.

Christianne is excited about starting her first year as a sessional assistant professor at York University and looks forward to sharing her passion for research and teaching with her new colleagues and students!

Research interests Medical anthropology • health geography • Indigenous health • environmental health social determinants of health • health inequalities • risk perception & risk communication cultural epidemiology • syndemics • structural violence • historical trauma & trauma narratives • embodiment • grounded theory • participatory action research • decolonizing methodologies