Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Florida, 2010–present

Affiliate Associate Professor, Department of Behavioral Science and Community Health, College of Public Health and Health Professions, University of Florida, 2010–present

Faculty Affiliate, Center for the Study of Race and Race Relations, University of Florida Levin College of Law, 2010–present

Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Florida, 2006–2010

Affiliate Assistant Professor, Department of Behavioral Science and Community Health, College of Public Health and Health Professions, University of Florida, 2007–2010

Faculty Affiliate, African American Studies Program, 2007–present

Faculty Affiliate, Center for Latin American Studies, University of Florida, 2006–present

Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Florida State University, 2004–2006

Research Associate, Center for Demography and Population Health, Florida State University, 2004–2006

Faculty Affiliate, Program in Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Florida State University, 2004–2006

Postdoctoral Fellowship, W.K. Kellogg Community Health Scholar, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2002–2003

Ph.D. in Anthropology, University of Florida, Gainesville, 2002

M.A. in Anthropology, University of Florida, Gainesville, 1998

Fulbright Scholar, Universität zu Köln, Köln (Cologne), Germany, 1996–1997

B.A. in Anthropology with Highest Honors, University of Florida, Gainesville, 1996

Summer training in field research methods, 2015-17 (Clarence C. Gravlee, PI; Sarah M. Szurek, Co-PI), National Science Foundation, Cultural Anthropology Program (BCS-1433173), $360,759

Doctoral dissertation research: Short-term health care providers and network structure in Nicaragua (Clarence C. Gravlee, PI; Jessica Jean Casler, Co-PI), National Science Foundation, Cultural Anthropology Program, $22,974, 2014

Doctoral dissertation research: Food insecure on a full stomach: the experience of food insecurity in cultural context (Clarence C. Gravlee, PI; Douglas A. Monroe, Co-PI), National Science Foundation, Cultural Anthropology Program (BCS-1260255), $15,166, 2013-14.

Epigenetic alterations and stress among new mothers and neonates in the Democratic Republic of Congo: A biocultural investigation of the intergenerational effects of war (Connie J. Mulligan, PI; Clarence C. Gravlee and Alyson G. Young, Co-PIs), National Science Foundation, Physical Anthropology Program (BCS-1231264), $353,328, 2012–15.

Doctoral dissertation research: Culture, change & chronic stress in lowland Bolivia (Clarence C. Gravlee, PI; Alan F. Schultz, Co-PI), National Science Foundation, Cultural Anthropology Program (BCS-1154738), $19,684, 2012–13.

Summer field training in methods of data collection, 2010-2013 (Ricardo Godoy, PI; Clarence C. Gravlee, William R. Leonard, Thomas W. McDade, Victoria Reyes-Garcia, Co-PIs), National Science Foundation, Cultural Anthropology Program, $428,201, 2009-12.

Genetic ancestry, race, and health disparities: A biocultural approach (Connie J. Mulligan, PI; Clarence C. Gravlee, Co-PI), National Science Foundation, Physical and Cultural Anthropology Programs, $425,249.

Research Experience for Graduates (REG) Supplement: Social network analysis of a Tsimane’ Village (Alan F. Schultz, Co-PI). Cultural Anthropology Program, National Science Foundation, $5,000, 2010

Research Experience for Graduates (REG) Supplement: Post-earthquake relocation of children on the Haitian-Dominican border: A preliminary study of the impact of a natural disaster on a vulnerable population (Tess Kulstad, Co-PI). Cultural Anthropology Program, National Science Foundation, $5,000, 2010

Social and cultural context of racial inequalities in health (Clarence C. Gravlee, PI; Christopher McCarty, Co-PI), National Science Foundation, Cultural Anthropology Program, $355,550, 2007-10

Center for Health Disparities Research: Epidemiologic and Cultural Dimensions (R. Jay Turner, PI; Clarence C. Gravlee, Isaac W. Eberstein, Co-Investigators), Cornerstone Social Science Program Enhancement Grant, Florida State University, ” $100,000, 2005-07

First Year Assistant Professor Award, Florida State University, $13,000, 2004

American Heart Association (AHA) Predoctoral Fellowship, Florida/Puerto Rico Affiliate, 2000-02

National Science Foundation (NSF) Dissertation Improvement Grant, $12,000, 2000-01

National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship, 1997-2000

Fulbright Graduate Fellowship, 1996-97

Exceptional Course Design Award (ANT 3451, Race and Racism, co-designed with Mary “Liz” Ibarrola), University of Florida Information Technology, 2018

Online Education Excellence Award (ANT 3451, Race and Racism, co-designed with Mary “Liz” Ibarrola), University of Florida, 2018

University of Florida Research Foundation (UFRF) Professorship, 2014–2016

Rudolph Virchow Award, Critical Anthropology of Global Health Caucus, Society for Medical Anthropology, 2010

Fellow, Society for Applied Anthropology, 2007

Emerging Scholar, Understanding Race and Human Variation, Society for Medical Anthropology and American Anthropological Association, 2005

University Women’s Club Award for Outstanding Ph.D. Writing and Research, 2002

Phi Beta Kappa, Early Induction (Junior Year), 1995

BOOK (EDITED)

Bernard, H. Russell, & Gravlee, Clarence C. (Eds.). (2015). Handbook of Methods in Cultural Anthropology (Second Edition). Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.

JOURNAL ARTICLES

Gravlee, Clarence C. (2020). Systemic racism, chronic health inequities, and COVID-19: A syndemic in the making? American Journal of Human Biology, 32(5), e23482.

Cardel, Michelle I., Xiaofei Chi, Yuan-I Min, Mario Sims, Solomon Musani, Akilah Dulin, Clarence C. Gravlee, Steven M. Smith, Mark D. DeBoer, Matthew J. Gurka. (2020). Experiences of discrimination are associated with worse metabolic syndrome severity among African Americans in the Jackson Heart Study. Annals of Behavioral Medicine, doi:10.1093/abm/kaaa050.

Rej, Peter, HEAT Steering Committee, Clarence C. Gravlee, Connie J. Mulligan (2020). Shortened telomere length is associated with unfair treatment attributed to race in African Americans living in Tallahassee, Florida. American Journal of Human Biology, 32(3): e23375.

Bartley, Emily J., Nadia I. Hossain, Clarence C. Gravlee, Kimberly T. Sibille, Ellen L. Terry, Ivana A. Vaughn, et al. (2019). Race/Ethnicity Moderates the Association Between Psychosocial Resilience and Movement‐Evoked Pain in Knee Osteoarthritis. ACR Open Rheumatology, 1(1), 16–25.

Fuller, Kia C., Christopher McCarty, Cynthia Seaborn, Clarence C. Gravlee, and Connie J. Mulligan. (2018). ACE Gene Haplotypes and Social Networks: Using a Biocultural Framework to Investigate Blood Pressure Variation in African Americans. PLoS ONE. 13(9): e0204127.

Weller, Susan C., Ben Vickers, H. Russell Bernard, Alyssa M. Blackburn, Stephen Borgatti, Clarence C. Gravlee, Jeffrey C. Johnson. (2018). Open-Ended Interview Questions and Saturation. PLoS ONE, 13(6), e0198606–18.

Gravlee, Clarence C., Chad R. Maxwell, Aryeh Jacobsohn, and H. Russell Bernard. (2017). Mode Effects in Cultural Domain Analysis: Comparing Pile Sort Data Collected via Internet Versus Face-to-Face Interviews. International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 74(2):165-176.

Quinlan, Jacklyn, Laurel N. Pearson, Christopher J. Clukay, Miaisha M. Mitchell, P. Qasimah Boston, Clarence C. Gravlee, and Connie J. Mulligan (2016). Genetic Loci and Novel Discrimination Measures Associated with Blood Pressure Variation in African Americans Living in Tallahassee. PLoS ONE 11 (12): e0167700.

Kagawa Singer, Marjorie, William W. Dressler, Sheba George, and NIH Expert Panel (Claudia R. Baquet, Ronny A. Bell, Linda Burhansstipanov, Nancy J. Burke, Suzanne Dibble, William Elwood, Linda Garro, Clarence C. Gravlee, Peter Guarnaccia, Michael L. Hecht, Jeffrey Henderson, Dan Hruschka, Roberto Lewis-Fernández, Robert Like, Charles Mouton, Hector F. Myers, J. Bryan Page, Rena Pasick, Bernice Pescosolido, Nancy Schoenberg, Bradley Stoner, Gregory Strayhorn, Laura Szalacha, Joseph Trimble, Thomas S. Weisner, David Williams) (2016). Culture: the missing link in health research. Social Science & Medicine, 170, 237–246.

Boulter, Alexis C., Jacklyn Quinlan, Aida Miro-Herrans, Laurel N. Pearson, Nubiana L. Todd, Clarence C. Gravlee, and Connie J. Mulligan (2015). Interaction of Alu Polymorphisms and Novel Measures of Discrimination in Association with Blood Pressure in African Americans Living in Tallahassee. Human Biology, 87(4), 295-305.

Gravlee, C. C., Szurek, S. M., & Mitchell, M. M. (2015). Integrating methods training and community-based participatory research: The NSF-supported ethnographic field school in Tallahassee, Florida. Practicing Anthropology, 37(4), 4–8.

Boston, P. Q., Mitchell, M. M., Collum, K., & Gravlee, C. C. (2015). Community engagement and health equity. Practicing Anthropology, 37(4), 28–32.

Szurek, S. M., & Gravlee, C. C. (2015). Introduction to the Special Issue. Practicing Anthropology, 37(4), 2–3.

Gravlee, Clarence C., P. Qasimah Boston, M. Miaisha Mitchell, Alan F. Schultz, and Connie Betterley. (2014). Food store owners’ and managers’ perspectives on the food environment: an exploratory mixed-methods study. BMC Public Health, 14(1), 1031.

Gravlee, Clarence C., H. Russell Bernard, Chad R. Maxwell, Aryeh Jacobsohn. (2013). Mode effects in free-list elicitation: Comparing oral, written, and web-based data collection. Social Science Computer Review, 31(1), 119-132.

Non, Amy L., Clarence C. Gravlee, Connie J. Mulligan. (2012). Education, genetic ancestry, and blood pressure in African Americans and Whites. American Journal of Public Health, 102(8), 1559-1565.

Reyes-García, Victoria, Clarence C. Gravlee, Thomas W. McDade, Tomás Huanca, William R. Leonard, Susan Tanner, and TAPS Bolivian Research Team. (2010). Cultural consonance and body morphology: Estimates with longitudinal data from an Amazonian society. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 143(2), 167-174.

Godoy, R., Colleen Nyberg, Dan T. A. Eisenberg, Oyunbileg Magvanjav, Eliezer Shinnar, William R. Leonard, Clarence C. Gravlee, Victoria Reyes-Garcia, Thomas W. McDade, Tomás Huanca, Susan Tanner, and TAPS Bolivian Research Team (2010). Short but catching up: Statural growth among native Amazonian Bolivian children. American Journal of Human Biology, 22(3), 336-347.

Godoy, R., O. Magvanjav, C. Nyberg, D.T.A. Eisenberg, T.W. McDade, W.R. Leonard, V. Reyes-Garcia, T. Huanca, S. Tanner, and C.C. Gravlee (2010). Why no adult stunting penalty or height premium? Estimates from native Amazonians in Bolivia. Economics & Human Biology, 8(1), 88-99.

Reyes-Garcia, Victoria, Clarence C. Gravlee, Thomas W. McDade, Tomas Huanca, Williams R. Leonard, and Susan Tanner (2010). Cultural consonance and psychological well-being: estimates with longitudinal data from an Amazonian society. Culture, Medicine & Psychiatry, 34(1), 186–203.

Gravlee, Clarence C, Amy L. Non, and Connie J. Mulligan. (2009). Genetic ancestry, social classification, and racial inequalities in blood pressure in Southeastern Puerto Rico. PLoS ONE 4 (9): e6821.

Godoy, R., Reyes-García, V., Gravlee, C. C., Huanca, T., Leonard, W. R., McDade, T. W. et al. (2009). Moving beyond a snapshot to understand changes in the well‐being of Native Amazonians: Panel evidence (2002-2006) from Bolivia. Current Anthropology, 50(4), 563-573.

Gravlee, Clarence C. (2009). How race becomes biology: Embodiment of social inequality. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 138: 47–57.

Gravlee, Clarence C., David P. Kennedy, Ricardo Godoy, and William R. Leonard. (2009). Methods for collecting panel data: What does cultural anthropology have to learn from other disciplines? Journal of Anthropological Research 65(3):453-483.

Gravlee, Clarence C. and Elizabeth Sweet. (2008). Race, ethnicity, and racism in medical anthropology, 1977-2002. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 22(1):27-51.

Godoy, R., Goodman, E., Gravlee, C. C., Levins, R., Seyfried, C., Caram, M., et al. (2007). Blood pressure and hypertension in an American colony (Puerto Rico) and on the USA mainland compared, 1886-1930. Economics & Human Biology 5(2), 255-279.

Zenk, S. N., A. J. Schulz, G. Mentz, J. S. House, C. C. Gravlee, P. Y. Miranda, P. Miller, and S. Kannan. (2007). Inter-rater and test-retest reliability: Methods and results for the neighborhood observational checklist. Health & Place 13:452-465.

Gravlee, Clarence C., Shannon N. Zenk, Sachiko Woods, Zachary Rowe, and Amy J. Schulz. (2006). Handheld computers for systematic observation of the social and physical environment. Field Methods 18(4):382-397.

Schulz, Amy J., Clarence C. Gravlee, David R. Williams, Barbara A. Israel, Zachary Rowe. (2006). Discrimination, symptoms of depression, and self-rated health among African American women in Detroit: Results from a longitudinal analysis. American Journal of Public Health 96(6):1265-1270.

Gravlee, Clarence C., William W. Dressler, and H. Russell Bernard. (2005). Skin color, social classification, and blood pressure in Puerto Rico. American Journal of Public Health 95(12):2191-2197.

Dressler, William W., Kathryn S. Oths, and Clarence C. Gravlee. Race and ethnicity in public health research: Models to explain health disparities. Annual Review of Anthropology 34:231-252.

Gravlee, Clarence C. (2005) Ethnic classification in southeastern Puerto Rico: The cultural model of “color.” Social Forces 83(3):949-970.

Gravlee, Clarence C. and William W. Dressler. (2005). Skin pigmentation, self-perceived color, and arterial blood pressure in Puerto Rico. American Journal of Human Biology 17(2):195-206.

Gravlee, Clarence C., H. Russell Bernard, and William R. Leonard (2003). Boas’s Changes in Bodily Form: The immigrant study, cranial plasticity, and Boas’s physical anthropology. American Anthropologist 105(2):326-332.

Gravlee, Clarence C., H. Russell Bernard, and William R. Leonard (2003). Heredity, environment, and cranial form: a re-analysis of Boas’s immigrant data. American Anthropologist 105(1):125-138.

Gravlee, Clarence C. (2002). Mobile computer-assisted personal interviewing (MCAPI) with handheld computers: the Entryware™ system 3.0. Field Methods 14(3):322-336.

BOOK CHAPTERS

Kuzawa, Christopher W. and Clarence C. Gravlee. (2016). Beyond genetic race: Biocultural insights into the causes of racial health disparities. New Directions in Bicultural Anthropology (pp. 89–105), edited by Molly K. Zuckerman and Debra L. Martin. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Bernard, H. Russell and Clarence C. Gravlee. (2015). Introduction: On Method and Methods in anthropology. in H. R. Bernard and C. C. Gravlee (Eds.), Handbook of Methods in Cultural Anthropology (Second Edition, pp. 1-17). Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.

Gravlee, Clarence C. (2013). Race, biology, and culture: Rethinking the connections. In J. Hartigan (Ed.), Anthropology of Race: Genes, Biology, and Culture (pp. 21–41). Santa Fe, NM: SAR Press.

Gravlee, Clarence C. (2011). Research Design and Methods in Medical Anthropology. In: A Companion to Medical Anthropology, edited by Merrill Singer and Pamela Erickson (p. 69-91). Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing.

Wutich, Amber and Clarence C. Gravlee. (2010). Water Decision-Makers in a Desert City: Text Analysis and Environmental Social Science. In I. Vaccaro, E. A. Smith, S. Aswani (Eds.), Environmental Social Sciences: Methods and Research Design (p. 188-211). New York: Cambridge University Press.

ENCYCLOPEDIA ARTICLE

Gravlee, Clarence C. (2008). Life Expectancy. In: Encyclopedia of Race and Racism, edited by John H. Moore (Vol. 2, pp. 265-269). Detroit: MacMillan Reference USA.

LETTERS, COMMENTARIES, BOOK REVIEWS

Non, Amy L., Clarence C. Gravlee, and Connie J. Mulligan. (2010). Questioning the importance of genetic ancestry as a contributor to preterm delivery and related traits in African Americans. American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology, e12.

Gravlee, Clarence C. and Connie J. Mulligan. (2009). Re: Racial Disparities in Cancer Survival Among Randomized Clinical Trials Patients of the Southwest Oncology Group [Letter]. Journal of the National Cancer Institute 101: in press.

Gravlee, Clarence C. Book reviews: Human biology of Afro-Caribbean populations. American Journal of Human Biology 19(4):598.

Gravlee, Jocelyn R., Daniel J. Van Durme, and Clarence C. Gravlee (2007). Conflicting evidence on splints for carpal tunnel syndrome – Reply. American Family Physician, 76(4), 500.