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Katharina Rynkiewich, PhD
Assistant Professor
Office:听 SO176; Phone:听 561-297-3241; Email:听 krynkiewich@fau.edu听
Assistant Professor & Director of Graduate Studies
Faculty Affiliate, Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Faculty Fellow, Center for Body, Mind, and Culture
Education:
PhD, Anthropology,听Washington University in St. Louis,听2020
MA, Anthropology,听Washington University in St. Louis,听2016
MA, Social Sciences, The University of Chicago,听2013
BA, Anthropology,听University of Missouri 鈥 St. Louis,听2012, Summa Cum Laude with Honors in Anthropology
Courses Taught at Florida Atlantic:
ANT 4302 Gender & Culture
ANT 4495 Research Methods in Cultural Anthropology
ANT 4464 Global Health & Culture
ANT 4532 Epidemics: Culture, Science, and Policy
ANG 6905 Proposal Development and Writing
Research Interests:
Medical Anthropology, Anthropology of Infectious Diseases, Social and Environmental Aspects of Antimicrobial Resistance, Hospital and Healthcare Ethnography
My research centers on the social, cultural, and environmental dynamics of antimicrobial resistance in the United States. Since 2013, I have conducted extensive ethnographic research among medical professionals in North American settings ranging from academic medical centers to skilled nursing facilities.
My most recent research has been funded by the College of Arts & Letters at 大象传媒 and the National Science Foundation. This work focuses on regional networks of medical care that include the outpatient prescription and use of antibiotic medicines as well as regional infection control and epidemiology in light of ongoing ecological instability in the South Florida area.
Grant Funding:
Co-Principal Investigator. Build and Broaden Grant,听Rhizomatic Nexus: Cultural Dimensions of Ecological Instability. National Science Foundation. $650,000.
Co-Investigator. Prevention Epicenters Grant,听An Ethnographic Approach to Interrogating Antimicrobial Stewardship: Practices and Challenges in Hospital Infection Management听and听Understanding Healthcare Worker Perceptions of Infection and Infection Control in Skilled Nursing Facilities. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. $9,450,000.
Principal Investigator. Dissertation Fieldwork Grant,听The Perils of Resistance: Antibiotic Stewards and Biosecuritization in North American Hospitals.听Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research. $17,990.
Selected Publications:
Refereed Journal Articles
Rynkiewich, Katharina, Sarin Gole, Sarah Won, and David N. Schwartz. 2023. 鈥淐ultures of antibiotic prescribing in medical intensive care.鈥澨Social Science & Medicine听324: 1-7. DOI:听听听
Rynkiewich, Katharina, Kruthika Uttla, Leila Hojat. 2022. 鈥淚nstant Gratification and Overtreating to Be Safe: Perceptions of U.S. Intensive Care Unit Pharmacists and Residents on Antimicrobial Stewardship.鈥澨Antibiotics.听11: 1-10. DOI:听听听
Rynkiewich, Katharina. 2022. 鈥淎ntimicrobial Prescribing Matters: The Irreconcilability in Moral Ranking Systems.鈥澨Anthropology & Medicine. 1-15. DOI:听听听
Rynkiewich, Katharina, et al. 2021. 鈥淗ealthcare Personnel Experiences Implementing Carbapenem-Resistant听Enterobacterales听Infection Control Measures at a Ventilator-capable Skilled Nursing Facility 鈥 A Qualitative Analysis.鈥澨Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology.听1-7. DOI:听听
Rynkiewich, Katharina. 2021. 鈥淓veryday Infection, Looming Threat: Hospital-based Infection Control in the United States.鈥澨Somatosphere听Special Issue: The Hospital Multiple,听听听
Selected Media and Audio
鈥淐ollaborative Research on the Cultural Dimensions of Ecological Instability.鈥 From听Arts and Letters In Conversation with Dean Michael Horswell.听October 30, 2024. Season 7, Episode 2. Available at:听
鈥淎ntibiotics Are Overused in the Health Care System鈥 From听Faculty Spotlight: Katharina Rynkiewich, PhD. Research Daily at 大象传媒.听By Bethany Augliere. November 16, 2023. Available at:
/research/fau-research-daily/2023/katharina-rynkiewich/
鈥淪tudents Tackle Anthropology of COVID-19.鈥 From Washington University鈥檚听The Source. By Talia Ogliore. May 5, 2020. Available at:听
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