Andrea Schuman

Schuman is an interdisciplinary social scientist with a primary interest in social policy and public health, both in the United States and in Latin America. Living and working in southeastern Mexico for the past twelve years has afforded her the opportunity to focus on interactions between the Mexican policy environment and that of the United States, with an emphasis on the creation and maintenance of sustainable lives and livelihoods for excluded sectors of the population. Under this broad umbrella, she studies transnational agriculture and trade policy, migration/immigration/return migration, education policy in multicultural environments and the internationalization of higher education. Schuman has most recently taught at the graduate level in Yucatán México in both a public and a private institution. Her teaching responsibilities have included development of courses on social policy, schooling and society and qualitative methodology. She has extensive experience presenting research results in professional and public forums at the state, national and international levels. Schuman is a Fellow of the Society for Applied Anthropology and an active member of the Red Latinoamericana de Investigadores en la Economia Social y Solidaria (Latin American Network of Researchers in the Social and Solidarity Economy) and the Red Latinoamericana de Metodología de las Ciencias Sociales (LatinAmerican Network on Methodology of the Social Sciences).