Heidi Bludau

Lecturer of Applied Anthropology

Ph.D., Indiana University, 2012

Office: Howard Hall 334

E-mail: hbludau@monmouth.edu

Telephone: 732-571-4479

Heidi’s research focuses on the global market for healthcare workers. Her dissertation, “Searching for Respect: Czech Nurses in the Global Economy,” examines the motivating and mitigating factors that create a migration flow from the Czech Republic to other countries including the UK and Saudi Arabia. This work engenders a number of research interests including medical anthropology, globalization, postsocialism and gender. Heidi’s primary region of interest, Central and Eastern Europe, leads to additional interests in the history and anthropology of Europe and the European Union.

Heidi teaches introduction to cultural anthropology, American diversity and globalization. In Spring 2013, she will be teaching medical anthropology.

PUBLICATIONS

2011. Producing Transnational Nurses: Agency and Subjectivity in Global Health Care Labor Migration Recruitment Practices. Special issue, "Health and Care Work in Postsocialist Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union,” Anthropology of East Europe Review. 29(1):94-108.