Thomas W. Ward, Visiting Assistant Professor

Department of Anthropology
Grace Ford Salvatori Hall, Room 120
3601 Watt Way
Los Angeles, CA 90089
Phone: (213) 740-8222
E-mail: tww@usc.edu
Personal Web Site: http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~tww/

Research

Dr. Ward's current research interest is urban youth street gangs. He has conducted over seven years of ethnographic research with Salvadoran gang members in Los Angeles (1993-2001).

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Bio

Dr. Ward has served as expert witness on urban gangs (immigration & murder trials) for U.S. Federal and Criminal courts.

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Education

l979 B.A. (Magna Cum Laude), Depts. of Anthropology & English Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas.
Sigma Tau Delta (National English Honor Society)
Phi Beta Kappa

l983 M.A., Department of Anthropology,
University of California, Los Angeles.

l987 Ph.D., Department of Anthropology,
University of California, Los Angeles.

1988 Post-doctoral Fellow, Department of Medical Anthropology
University of California, San Francisco

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Recent Publications

1995 "The Memory Project of Dagoberto Reyes." In The Los Angeles Festival: The Use of an Arts Organization as a Basis for Intercultural Contact and Communication, Report to the Ford Foundation.

1996 Site Evaluations of Minority Recruitment into HIV Clinical Trials:
Baltimore, MD; Brooklyn, NY; Austin, TX; Los Angeles, CA. Report to HRSA/LTD.

1997 Evaluation of Geriatric Services at AltaMed, Los Angeles, CA.
Report to HRSA/LTD.

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Courses Taught

Anthropology 201 - Introduction to Social Anthropology
Anthropology 215 - Ethnicity & Place
Anthropology 328 - Culture Change & the Mexican People
Anthropology 371 - Cross-Cultural Research on Urban Gangs
Anthropology 490 - Directed Research

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Awards and Honors

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Professional Memberships

American Anthropological Association

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