Rate My Professor Lori Jervis

A medical anthropologist, gerontologist, and anthrozoologist, Jervis conducts community-engaged research at the intersection of culture, health, and rurality, with over 20 years of collaboration with tribal communities on cognitive and psychiatric disorders, elder mistreatment, and end-of-life care. Her interests encompass medical anthropology, psychiatric anthropology, applied anthropology, aging/gerontology, rural health, violence and trauma, anthrozoology, and Native North America. Recent projects examine food environments in rural tribal communities, vaccine hesitancy in Oklahoma, and human-canine relationships including free-roaming dogs and companion animal rescue networks. Key publications include "Food environments and gut microbiome health: Availability of healthy foods, alcohol, and tobacco in a rural Oklahoma tribal community" (Discover Food, 2022, with Bray et al.); "Collective health behavior and face mask utilization during the COVID-19 pandemic in Oklahoma" (Journal of Public Health, 2022, with Bray et al.); "Resisting extinction: Purple Martins, death, and the future" (Conservation & Society, 2019); "Protectors, aggressors, and kinfolk: Dogs in a tribal community" (Anthrozoos, 2018); "The conceptualization of mistreatment by older American Indians" (Journal of Elder Abuse & Neglect, 2017); "Elder mistreatment in underserved populations: Opportunities and challenges to developing a contemporary program of research" (Journal of Elder Abuse & Neglect, 2016); and "An imperfect refuge: Life in an 'old folk's home' for younger residents with psychiatric disorders" (Social Science & Medicine, 2002).