Dickinson College Department of Anthropology

Kjell Enge, Chair
Associate Professor of Anthropology
Ph.D., Boston University
Phone: (717) 245-1902
FAX:(717) 245-1479
E-mail:enge@dickinson.edu
http://www.dickinson.edu/~enge/

Professor Kjell Enge has a Ph.D. in Anthropology from Boston University (1982). He has conducted research in many locations, including Bolivia, Costa Rica, El Salvador,Guatemala, Guinea, Honduras, Jamaica, Mali, Mexico, Morocco, Nicaragua and Spain. He speaks Norwegian, English, and Spanish. His specialties are medical anthropology, ecological anthropology, agrarian systems, the anthropology of education, reproductive health and maternal-child health care in Latin America.

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Professor Enge's dissertation research was on irrigation agriculture in the Tehuacán Valley located in the southern part of Puebla in Mexico. Together with Scott Whiteford from Michigan State, he authored a volume based on over ten years of fieldwork in Tehuacán entitled, The Keepers of Water and Earth (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1989).

From Fall '93-August '96, Professor Enge worked with the Population Council in New York. During this time, he was on leave from Dickinson and directed an operations research program on Reproductive Health for the Mayan population in Guatemala.

In addition, he has done research on primary health care, education and agriculture in Bolivia, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Guinea, Mali, Mexico, Nepal, Nicaragua, Pakistan, Peru, Suriname, and Tanzania.

Professor Enge has also done collaborative research on the Dickinson Campus and in the greater Carlisle area. These projects have included surveys on drugs, sex and violence at the College, future aspirations of Carlisle High School students, multiculturalism at Dickinson and a needs assessment for United Way of Carlisle. All these projects were done as part of courses in quantitative research methods, and Dickinson students participated in research design, implementation, analysis, and reports. Currently, he is on of the Principal Investigators on a project funded by the Pennsylvania Department of Health as part of the tobacco settlement. The objectove is to reduce disparities in hypertension (CHORD) by involving undergraduates in research to collect data on health seeking behavior of low income populations in Phildalphia and Harrisburg.

Currently, he is also working on a number of projects designed to improve educational quality in Latin America. This research is funded by USAID and carried out by Juárez and Associates, Washington, DC. His current projects include the monitoring of Girls Education Initiatives in Guatemala, Guinea, Mali, Morocco and Peru, Basic Education in Nicaragua and Jamaica, and the US Department of Labor Child Labor Education Initiative.

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