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Hoyt Alverson

Professor of Anthropology

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Departments

  • Anthropology
  • Linguistics and Cognitive Sciences

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Contact Information

Email: hoyt.s.alverson@dartmouth.edu
Phone: 603-646-3336
Office: 6047 Silsby Hall

Education

B.A. George Washington University; M. Phil. Yale University; Ph.D. Yale University

Areas of Expertise

Economic and cognitive anthropology; mental health services research; Sub-Saharan Africa and United States

Selected Works

  • "An Ethnographic Study of Job Seeking among People with Severe Mental Illness," with E Carpenter and R E Drake, Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal, 30:1 (2006) 15-22.
  • "Social Patterns of Substance-Use Among People with Dual Diagnoses," (Reprint of the 2002 article with extensive methodological commentary) in The Research Process in the Human Services, L B Alexander and P Solomon (eds.), (2005) 326-351.
  • "Psychosocial Aspects of Substance Abuse By Clients with Severe Mental Illness," Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 190:2 (2002) 100-106.
  • "Social Patterns of Substance-Use Among People with Dual Diagnoses," Mental Health Services Research, 3:1 (2001) 3-14.
  • "From Storied Time to Clock Time in the Economic Globalization of the New Millennium," in Time at the Millennium: Changes and Continuities, (The Study of Time, vol. X), M Soulsby and J T Frazer (eds.), (2001) 177-188.

Current Projects

Mental health and employment services among Euro-American, African-American, and Hispanic/Latino American populations in urban areas, especially inner cities of the Northeastern United States; ethnographic study of employment programs in the inner city of Hartford, Connecticut for people diagnosed with severe mental illness.