David A. Himmelgreen, Ph.D.

David A. Himmelgreen received his Ph.D. in anthropology from SUNY Buffalo in 1994, and was a Research Scientist and Associate Director of Research at the Hispanic Health Council in Hartford, Connecticut from 1994 to 1998. He is currently an Associate Professor and the Associate Chair at the Department of Anthropology, University of South Florida (USF). Himmelgreen’s interests include maternal and child health, nutritional assessment, food security, obesity, nutrition education, and HIV/AIDS prevention. He has conducted research in India, Lesotho, Costa Rica, and the United States. Currently, he is working on a new NSF funded project focusing on the impact that the ongoing transition from farming to tourism is having on the food habits and nutritional health of rural Costa Rican families. This past year, Himmelgreen and colleagues completed a preliminary study on perceptions of food insecurity among rural households and agricultural and public health experts in Lesotho. He is the USF co-director of a field methods course on Globalization and Community Health in Monteverde, Costa Rica and has worked with faculty at the University of Puerto Rico on an NIH funded field methods course targeting undergraduate from Puerto Rico and the U.S. In addition to being a Fulbright Scholar, he has received grants from the National Science Foundation, United States Department of Agriculture, UNICEF, Patel Center for Global Solutions, and from various state and local agencies in Florida. He was awarded a Presidential Young Faculty Award in 2003 and Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award in 2005 from USF.

Himmelgreen has published 45 articles including peer-reviewed research reports and book chapters, book reviews, and editorials. He has published in over 15 peer-reviewed journals (as lead- or co-author) in and outside of anthropology. Some of the journals his work appears in include the American Journal of Physical Anthropology, American Journal of Human Biology, Ecology of Food and Nutrition, Human Organization, American Anthropologist, Medical Anthropology, Journal of the American Dietetic Association, Pan American Journal of Public Health, Nutrition Reviews, and the American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse. He has published four book chapters in edited volumes including Applied Anthropology: Domains of Application, S. Kedia and J van Willigan (eds.) and The Political Economy of AIDS, M. Singer (ed.).