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REBECCA J. HESTER
Assistant Professor of Science and Technology Studies
Department of Science and Technology in Society
Virginia Polytechnic and State University
Lane Hall, Room 235
280 Alumni Mall
Blacksburg, VA 24061
540-231-8359
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
Department of Science and Technology in Society, Virginia Tech
Assistant Professor, 2015-present
Center to Eliminate Health Disparities, University of Texas Medical Branch
Senior Fellow, 2013-present
Department of Social Work, University of Texas El Paso
Affiliate Faculty, 2011-present
Department of Preventive Medicine and Community Health, Institute for the Medical
Humanities, University of Texas Medical Branch
Assistant Professor, 2010-2015
Areas of specialization: Socio-cultural Studies of Medicine, Health, Science, and Technology;
Global and Community Health; Critical Security Studies; Biosecurity; Bioethics; Feminist
Studies of Embodiment and The Politics of the Body; Critical Race Studies and Indigenous
Cultural Politics
EDUCATION
University of California, Santa Cruz, Department of Politics
Ph.D. Politics with emphasis in Latin American and Latino Studies, 2009
University of California Santa Cruz, Department of Politics
M.A. Politics, 2004
University of California Berkeley, Department of Spanish and Portuguese
B.A. Spanish and Portuguese with emphasis in Latin American Literature, 1998
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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois
Chancellor’s Post-Doctoral Fellow in Latina/o Studies, 2009-2010
Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Instructor, Office of Community Health, Department of Medicine, 2009, 2010, 2014
San Francisco City College, San Francisco, CA
Instructor, Interdisciplinary and African American Studies, 2009
San Francisco City College, San Francisco, CA
Instructor, Latin American and Latino Studies, 2007-2008
University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA
Instructor, Latin American and Latino Studies, 2008
Abundantia Consulting, San Francisco, CA
Senior Associate for Evaluation, 2007-2008
PUBLICATIONS
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
Hester, R.J. (2015) Cultural Competency Training and Indigenous Cultural Politics in
California, Latino Studies Vol. 13, No.3, pp.336-338.
Hester, R. J. (2012, December). The Promise and Paradox of Cultural Competence. In HEC
Forum (Vol. 24, No. 4, pp. 279-291).
Peer-Reviewed Book chapters
Hester, R.J. (2014) Bodies in Translation: Public Health Promotion in Indigenous Mexican
Migrant Communities in California, In: Alvarez, S., de Lima Costa, C., Feliú, F., Klahn,
N., Hester, R.J., and Thayer, M. with Cruz C. Bueno, editors
Translocalities/Translocalidades: Feminist Politics of Translation in the Latin/a
Américas Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press.
Clark, Mark, Howard Brody and Rebecca J Hester (2014) Patient-Professional Relationships,
Health Humanities Reader, Therese Jones, Delese Wear, and Lester D. Freidman, ed.,
New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press.
Lipschutz, Ronnie and Rebecca J Hester (2014) We are the Borg! Human Absorption into the
Cellular Society,” in Uberveillance and the Social Implication of Microchip Implants:
Emerging Technologies (Advances in Human and Social Aspects of Technology Book
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Series). M.G. Michael and Katina Michael, eds., Hershey, PA: Information Science
Reference (IGI Global).
Hester, R.J., (2015) Biology as Opportunity: Hybridization from a Molecular Point of View. In:
Hurt, S. and Lipschutz, R. eds. Hybrid Rule and State Formation: Public-Private Power
in the 21st Century, New York, NY: Routledge.
Hester, R.J. (2016) Culture in Medicine: An Argument against Competence,
Critical Medical Humanities Reader, Edinburgh University Press, In press.
Policy Paper
Miller, C., Byrd, V.M., Nolen, L., Hester, R., Tarlekar, S., Prochaska, J. (2011) Envisioning
Galveston: Resident’s vision of the future, and feedback on the City of Galveston’s Draft
Comprehensive Plan, Center to Eliminate Health Disparities at the University of Texas
Medical Branch: Galveston, Texas.
Dissertation
Hester, R.J., Embodied Politics: Health Promotion in Indigenous Mexican Migrant
Communities in California, (2009) Doctoral dissertation, University of California Santa
Cruz.
Varia (Online Modules, CDs):
Hester, R.J. “Response to a Case Study, a Difficult Birth: Navigating Language and Cultural
Differences.” http://www.scu.edu/ethics/practicing/focusareas/medical/culturally-
competent- care/homepage.html, Internet publication, June 2008.
Works under review and/or revision
Hester, R.J., Embodied Politics: Health Promotion in Indigenous Mexican Migrant
Communities, Rutgers University Press, under review.
AWARDED GRANT FUNDING
Dean’s Advisory Committee on International Initiatives, Virginia Tech, (Hester, R.J., Zac
Zimmer) $750.00, “Impacting Global Health One Community at a Time: Lessons Learned from
Clínica de Familia in the Dominican Republic,” Fall 2015.
Mary Moody Northern Endowment, Galveston, TX (Hester, R.J. PI) $2,500.00. “A Qualitative
Research Project to Document Community Opinions on Welcoming Central American Refugee
Children into the Galveston Community,” 2014.
National Institutes of Health, Health Disparities Research Loan Repayment Program, (Hester,
R.J. PI) $21,161.27 “Power and Medicine: Exploring Curricular Innovations for Addressing
Health Disparities,” 2011-2013.
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Harris and Eliza Kempner Fund (Hester, R.J. PI) $28,000.00. “Hear Our Voice: Capturing the
Perspective of St. Vincent’s Patients,” 2011-2011.
Programa de Investigación en Migración y Salud (PIMSA),University of California Office of the
President, California and Mexico, (Hester, R.J., Co-PI with Pat Zavella and Dolores Paris
Pombo) $40,000. “Health Promotion in Indigenous Mexican Communities in Oaxaca and
California,” 2006-2008.
FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS, AND HONORS
Diebel Monograph Fund, Publication award from the Institute for the Medical
Humanities, $2493.00, 2012
Best Dissertation in Latino Studies, Latino Studies Section Dissertation Award
Committee, Latin American Studies Association, 2010
Chancellor’s Post-doctoral Fellow, Latina/Latino Studies Program, University of
Illinois Urbana-Champaign 2009-2010
President’s Dissertation-Year Fellowship, University of California Santa Cruz, 2007-
2007
UC MEXUS Dissertation Award, University of California, 2006-2007
Graduate Student Association, University of California Santa Cruz, 2005
Eugene Cota Robles Fellowship, University of California Santa Cruz, 2002-2004
Magna Cum Laude, Honor’s Student Society, Academic Honors, Spanish Honor’s
Student Society, University of California Berkeley, 1995-1998
SUPERVISION OF GRADUATE STUDENTS
Doctoral Dissertation Committees
Committee Co-Chair, Brenda Wilson, Ph.D. Candidate, Institute for the Medical
Humanities, UTMB, 2015 to present
Committee Member, Erica Fletcher, Ph.D. Candidate, Institute for the Medical
Humanities, 2011-2015
Committee Member, Rachel Pearson, M.D.-Ph.D. Candidate, Institute for the Medical
Humanities, 2014-2015
Doctoral Qualifying Exam Committees
Committee Chair, Jonathan Banda, Ph.D. Student, STS, Virginia Tech, 2015 to present
Committee Chair, Ariel Ludwig, Ph.D. Student, STS, Virginia Tech, 2015 to present
Committee Co-Chair, Shannon Guillot-Wright, Ph.D. Student, Institute for the Medical
Humanities, UTMB, 2012-Present
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Committee Member, Hung Yin Tsai, Ph.D. Student, STS, Virginia Tech, 2015 to present
Committee Member, Tarryn Abrams, Ph.D. Student, STS, Virginia Tech, 2015 to present
Committee Member, Lisa Shaler-Clark, Ph.D. Student, STS, Northern Virginia Campus,
2015 to present
Committee Member, Joshua Earle, Ph.D. Student, STS, Virginia Tech, 2016
Master’s Thesis Committee
Committee Chair, Sarah Baker, M.D.-M.A., Student, Institute for the Medical
Humanities, 2011-2013
Committee Chair, Jonathan Banda, M.A. Student, Institute for the Medical Humanities,
2012-2015
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Virginia Polytechnic and State University Courses taught in the Department of Science and Technology in Society
The Foundations of Social Medicine, Fall 2015
Monsters, Zombies, and Cyborgs, Spring 2016
University of Texas Medical Branch
Courses Taught in the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
Body Politics
Vulnerable Bodies: Health, Migration, and Security
Contemporary Social Theory
Critical and Qualitative Methods in Social Medicine
Foundations of Social Medicine
Medical Anthropology Theory
Courses Taught in the School of Medicine
Introduction to Medical Humanities
Humanities, Ethics, Professionalism
Ethical Issues in the Practice of Medicine, Year 1
Beyond Medicine: Social Health and Human Rights
Other Teaching Activities at UTMB
Course Director, Seminario Taller Bioética en Investigación (Bioethics in Research
Seminar – 4 day training in the history of biomedical research ethics and how to set up a
community IRB), The Universidad Iberoamericana (UNIBE), Santo Domingo,
Dominican Republic, June 25-July 2, 2015.
Faculty Lecture, “Preparing for the MCAT: Incorporating the Social and Behavioral
Sciences in Medicine,” Joint Medical Admissions Program, June 10, 2014.
Faculty Lecture, “The Ethics and Politics of Eyes in the Digital Age” Grand Rounds,
Department of Ophthalmology, University of Texas Medical Branch, February 19, 2014.
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Faculty Lecture, “Culture in Medicine: An Argument against Competence,” Grand
Rounds, Department of Pediatrics, University of Texas Medical Branch, March 1, 2013.
Faculty Lecture, “Death by Policy: How Immigration Policies are Harming Latinos”
Presentation for the Latino Student Medical Association, University of Texas Medical
Branch, September 27, 2012.
Faculty Lecture, “Cultural Competency in Aerospace Medicine,” Grand Rounds at
NASA, Department of Aerospace Medicine, November, 2011.
Faculty Lecture, “Cultural Competence: Addressing the Relationship between Health
Disparities and Professional Development in Medicine,” Grand Rounds, Department of
Internal Medicine, June, 2011.
Faculty Lecture, “Cultural Competence: Challenges and Opportunities,” Global Health
Program, February, 2011.
Stanford University
Oaxacan Health on Both Sides of the Border, Department of Community Health, Spring
and Summer 2009, Spring 2010, Spring 2014
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Gender and Migration, Department of Latino Studies, Spring 2010
San Francisco City College
Racial and Ethnic Groups in the United States, Department of Interdisciplinary Studies,
Spring 2009.
Latina/o Diaspora: The Impact of Latina/os living in the United States, Department of
Latin American and Latina/o Studies, 2007-2008, Fall 2008
University of California Santa Cruz
Courses Taught
Borders Real and Imagined, Department of Latin American and Latina/o Studies, Winter
2008
Courses for which I was Teaching Assistant
Environmental Politics, Department of Politics, Santa Cruz, Spring 2007
Democracy and Liberalism in American Politics, Department of Politics, Spring 2006
Global Politics, Department of Politics, Fall 2006
Latin American Politics, Department of Politics, University of California Santa Cruz,
Winter 2005
Introduction to Latin American and Latino Studies, Department of Latin American and
Latino Studies, Fall 2005
American Social Policy, Department of Politics, Fall 2004
INVITED PRESENTATIONS
“Preempting Biological Danger: Mexican Migration, Molecular Mutability, and the Boundary
Work of Biodefense,” Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, January 26, 2014
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“Beyond Medicine: A Curricular Approach to Enhancing Professional Integrity,” Grand Rounds
Presentation for the Department of Surgery, UTMB, December 8, 2014.
“How Much (Bio) Security is Too Much?: Ethics, Life Science Research, and the H5N1
Controversy,” Conference on Genetics, Genomics, and Global Health: Inequalities, Identities and
Insecurities, University of Sussex, July 18, 2014,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uI6sZGvgbfY
“The Ethics and Politics of Biometrics in Health Care,” Keynote Speech, Byron Bailey Surgical
Society meeting, Galveston, TX, June 14, 2014.
“Bodies as=of Knowledge: The Ethics and Politics of Biometrics in Health Care” University of
California Santa Cruz, BIOS Research Cluster, May 13, 2014.
“Those Against Whom Society Must be Defended: Mexican Migrants, Swine Flu, and
Biosecurity” University of California Santa Cruz, BIOS Research Cluster, April 8, 2014,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EL8-DQZBFBc
“Culture in Medicine: An Argument against Competence” at the Edinburgh Companion to the
Critical Medical Humanities Workshop, Durham University, Durham England, April 4, 2014.
“Hybridizing Health and Self at the Turn of the Millenium” Conference on The Public-
Private Hybridization of the 21st Century State, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, July,
2010.
“Is Indigenous Culture Harmful to your Health?” Latina/o Studies Program,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, November, 2009.
“Re-thinking ‘Best Practices’: Working with Indigenous Mexican Migrants,” Presentation for
Día del Indígena, Salinas, CA, October, 2008.
“Working with Indigenous Mexican Migrants,” Presentation to First 5 California, Salinas, CA,
October, 2008.
“Working with Indigenous Mexican migrants,” presentation to First 5 California,
Fresno, CA, April, 2008.
“Conducting Evaluation Research in/with Binational Communities: Merging Theory and
Practice” with Dr. Zoe Clayson, presented at The Summer Institute for Migration and
Health, Puebla, Mexico, July, 2007.
“Public Health Promoters: Changing Practices of Everyday Life,” Paper presented at
Translocalities/Translocalidades: Feminist Politics of Translation in the Latin/a Américas,
Amherst, Massachusetts, May, 2006.
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SELECTED REFEREED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
“National Security as a Social Determinant of Latina/o Health,” Latin American Studies
Association, San Juan, Puerto Rico, May 29, 2015.
“The Health-Security-Industrial Complex,” International Studies Association, New Orleans, LA,
February 20, 2015.
“Insecurity in the Laboratory: Security as a Destabilizing Force in Biodefense Research,”
International Studies Association, New Orleans, LA, February 19, 2015
“Intellectual Perversions: Enacting a Politics of Translation in Non-Feminist Academic Spaces”
Latin American Studies Association, Chicago, Illinois, May 23, 2014.
“Targeting Those Against Whom Society Must be Defended: Mexican Migrants, Swine Flu, and
Biosecurity” Vulnerable Bodies Conference, University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign, April 17,
2014.
“We are the Borg: Human Assimilation into Cellular Society,” Conference on Targeting,
Tracking, and Predicting: Epistemological, Ontological, and Biopolitical Dimensions of Techno-
Security, Paderborn, Germany, June 21, 2013.
“Those against whom Society Must be Defended: Mexican Migrants, Swine Flu, and
Bioterrorism,” Latin American Studies Association, Washington, D.C., May 30, 2013.
“The Pioneers Get the Arrows, The Settlers Get the Land: Negotiating the Interdisciplinary
Borders between Medicine/Public Health, the Humanities and Anthropology,” co-presented with
Jerome Crowder at the American Anthropological Association, November 17, 2012.
“How Much (Bio) Security is Too Much? The H5N1 Debate” Institute for the Medical
Humanities, University of Texas Medical Branch, June 12, 2012.
“Secure Borders, Insecure Lives: The Health and Human Rights Consequences of Mexico’s War
on Drugs” Latin American Studies Association, San Francisco, CA, May 25, 2012.
“Biosecurity and the H5N1 Controversy: Implications for Securitizing the Life Sciences”
Galveston National Laboratory, University of Texas Medical Branch, April 6, 2012.
“Recombinant Relations: A Molecular View of Hybridization,” International Studies
Association, Montreal, Canada, March, 2011.
“El Proyecto de Salud Indígena: A Culturally Competent Model for Working with Indigenous
Mexican Migrants” presented at the First Annual Research Training Workshop on
Migration and Health, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, May, 2010.
“Hybridizing Health and Self at the Turn of the Millennium” International Studies Association,
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New Orleans, LA, February, 2010.
“Preventing Sexually Transmitted Infections among Indigenous Oaxacans: Health Promotion
Through a Binational Lens,” Rebecca Hester and Pat Zavella, presented at the IX
Binational Policy Forum on Migration and Health, Santa Fe, New Mexico, October, 2009.
“Health Promotion through a Binational Lens: A Study of Health Promoters in Indigenous
Mexican Communities,” Rebecca Hester, Dolores Paris, and Pat Zavella, presented at the
IX Binational Policy Forum on Migration and Health, Santa Fe, New Mexico, October,
2009.
“Preventing HIV Risk among Indigenous Women Migrants: Transnational Health Promotion,”
Co-presented with Pat Zavella, presented at the American Sociological Association, San
Francisco, CA, August, 2009.
“Health Promotion through a Binational Lens: A Study of Health Promoters in Indigenous
Mexican Communities,” Workshop on Migration and Health, University of California San
Diego, La Jolla, CA, October, 2008.
“Health Promotion as a Discursive Formation: El Proyecto de Salud Indígena,” presented at the
First Conference on Ethnicity, Race and Indigenous Peoples in Latin America and
the Caribbean, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, May 2008
“Bodies in Translation: Public Health Promotion in Indigenous Mexican Migrant
Communities in California,” Paper presented at Latin American Studies Association, Montreal,
Canada, September, 2007.
“Public Health Promotion: Changing Practices of Everyday Life,” Paper presented for
Latin American Studies Association, San Juan, Puerto Rico, March, 2006.
“Public Health Promotion, Changing Practices of Everyday Life,” Paper presented at
Graduate Student Conference on Ethnographic Practice, SUNY Stony Brook, Long
Island, New York, April, 2005.
“Health Discourses and Discipline,” Paper presented at Latin American Studies Association,
Dallas, Texas, October, 2004.
SERVICE
Committees
Dean’s Advisory Committee on International Initiatives, Virginia Tech, January 2016 to
present.
Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, Science and Technology Studies, Virginia Tech,
2015 to present.
Medicine and Society Curriculum Committee, Science and Technology Studies, Virginia
Tech, 2015 to present.
Member, Diversity Council, University of Texas Medical Branch, 2013-2014
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Academic Service
Member of advisory committee for the research project titled “Policies, Practices, and
Structures Impacting the Health and Care Access of Refugee Children.” This project is a
collaborative between the University of Texas Medical Branch, Baylor College of
Medicine, Texas Children’s Hospital, and the University of Houston Clear Lake. It aims
to develop best policies and practices for addressing the health needs of refugee children
in the United States.
Reviewer, Feminist Economics, Summer 2015
Reviewer, American Ethnologist, 2015
Reviewer, Third World Quarterly, Fall 2015
Reviewer, NSF Science, Technology and Society, Fall 2015
Offices Held in Professional Societies
Co-Chair, Health, Science & Society Section of Latin American Studies Association,
2010- 2015
Board Member, Health, Science, and Technology Section of Latin American Studies
Association, 2015 to present
Public Engagement
Co-organizer for a community engagement tour to West Virginia, January to present.
Presentation to the Mitchell Foundation on racism and poverty in Galveston, Texas.
Galveston, Texas, September 26, 2015.
Presentation to the Texas Pediatric Society on the health of undocumented Central
American children in U.S. detention centers, Austin, TX, April 19, 2015.
“The Structure of Violence,” An art and medicine project drawing attention to
community violence as a medical concern, 2014-2015
Community Lectures on Unaccompanied Central American Children at the Border, Fall
2014
Community Lecture on Mexican Migration to the United States for Galveston Reads
discussion of Into the Beautiful North by Luis Alberto Urrea, Galveston Texas, March
12, 2011.
Other Service
Faculty Advisor, Virginia Tech Women’s Polo Team, 2015-present.
Advisor and volunteer grant writer, Centro Binacional para el Desarrollo Indígena
Oaxaqueño, Fresno, CA. 2007-Present.
Advisor, Frente Indígena de Organizaciones Binacionales, A Binational Indigenous
Human Rights Organization, Mexico-United States, 2011-Present
Board Member, Galveston County Mutual Aid Partnership (GC-MAP), Galveston,
Texas, 2012-2014
Board Member, St. Vincent’s House, Galveston, TX. 2011-2013
Board Member, Hope Clinic, Galveston, TX. 2011-2013, 2014-2015
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Board Member, Centro Binacional para el Desarrollo Indígena Oaxaqueño, Fresno, CA.
2007-2010
Memberships in Professional Societies and Organizations
American Anthropological Association
American Sociological Association
International Studies Association
Latin American Studies Association
Social Studies of Science and Society
LANGUAGES
English Fluent
Spanish Fluent
French Advanced
Portuguese Intermediate
REFERENCES
Ronnie Lipschutz, Ph.D.
Provost, College 8/Chair and Professor of Politics
Department of Politics
University of California, Santa Cruz
1156 High St.
Santa Cruz, CA 95064
(831) 459-3275
Gabriel Garcia
Professor of Medicine
Stanford University
300 Pasteur Dr
A160 MC 5303
Stanford, CA 94305
Tel: (650) 723-6961
Daniel Breslau
Associate Professor and Chair of Science and Technology Studies
Department of Science and Technology in Society
Virginia Polytechnic and State University
Lane Hall, Room 131
280 Alumni Mall
Blacksburg, VA 24061
Tel: (540) 231-8472
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Last updated: February 2016
