Dr. Andrews received her B.A. in Anthropology from Portland State University, her PhD from the University of Arizona (Anthropology), and her Masters of Public Health from Columbia University. She has worked as a sociocultural anthropologist in professional and academic settings, and recently returned to Portland where she joined PSU as an Adjunct Professor. Her collaborative work with Native American nations since 1980 has focused on environmental and natural resource issues, health and healing, cultural dynamics and continuity, and gender. More recently she also applied her concern for minority and international health issues to cooperative projects with regional Hispanic community organizations in central Washington state. This work focused on gender, immigration, and health, including undocumented Mexican immigrant women and children. While a Professor at Central Washington University, she also spent 3 ½ months teaching at Anhui University in Hefei, China.
Selected Works:
- Andrews, Tracy J.; Vickie Ybarra and L. LaVern Matthews. (2013); For the Sake of our Children: Hispanic Immigrant and Migrant Families’ Use of Folk Healing and Biomedicine; Medical Anthropology Quarterly: International Journal for the Analysis of Health Vol 27 (3): 385-413. https://doi.org/10.1111/maq.12048
- Andrews, T. , *D. Wellman, * N. Aikman, P. McCollum, D. Fuller, R. Call (2012, poster); Pt. Gamble S'Klallam Tribal resource conservation and restoration efforts: Linking indigenous knowledge and science. Public Participation in Scientific Research Conference, Ecological Society of America annual meeting; (August), Portland, Oregon.
- Andrews, T. J. and *J. Olney (Shellenberger) (2007); Potlatch and Pow Wow: Dynamics of Culture Through Lives Lived Dancing. The American Indian Culture and Research Journal, Vol. 31 (1): 63-108.
- Andrews, T.J., V. Ybarra, and *T. Miramontes, (2002) Negotiating Survival: Undocumented Mexican Immigrant Women in the Pacific Northwest. The Social Science Journal, Vol. 39 (3):431-449. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0362-3319(02)00202-1
- Andrews, T.J. (1998) Crops, Cattle, and Capital: Agrarian Political Ecology in Canyons de Chelly and del Muerto. American Indian Culture and Research Journal 22(3):31-78. Andrews, T.J. (1995)
- Gender and Subsistence in Northern Cultures: Clarifying Women's Roles and Expanding the Knowledge Base. Alaska Anthropological Assoc., 23rd Annual Meeting, Anchorage. Co-Organizer of Symposium (2 sessions) and paper presentation.