Chris Ponticelli
Associate Professor
Contact
Office: CPR 239
Phone: 813/974-2550
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Personal Bio
Dr. Ponticelli focuses on issues of identity and identity construction, animals and society, health education and care, and qualitative methodology, including autoethnography. Previous research analyzed identity construction in ex-gay religious communities. Currently she is looking at the ways in which volunteers construct identities through their interactions with shelter animals. This is the culmination of 1 ½ years as a volunteer and participant observer at a Bay area animal shelter. She is also working on an authoethnographic account of constructing a caregiving identity in an intergenerational relationship. She has published Gateways to Improving Lesbian Health and Health Care, and articles in Social Psychology Quarterly and Qualitative Inquiry. She team teaches a multidisciplinary Women’s Health course for 4th year medical students at the USF College of Medicine.
Education
Ph.D.,University of California-Santa Cruz, 1993
Current Courses