Frederick Howard

Pronouns: he/him

Research interests:

Year of Graduation:
2020

Frederick Howard graduated with a PhD in Anthropology from the New School for Social Research. His dissertation, “No Refuge in Return: A Study of Landscape, Home, And Colonial Power for Oglala Veterans on Pine Ridge,” was awarded the 2020 Stanley Diamond Memorial Award in the Social Sciences. Frederick arrived at NSSR from the University of Chicago’s MA program in the Social Sciences and graduated with his BA in Anthropology from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln.

Frederick’s dissertation research was funded by the National Science Foundation, examining the experiences of Oglala, Lakota military veterans returning home to Pine Ridge Reservation to navigate their healthcare between the Indian Health Service hospital and the Veterans Health Administration. His research investigates themes of health care access, Indigenous land claims and fractionation, and consultation.

Frederick is currently a Postdoctoral Scholar at The Ohio State University, College of Dentistry in the Division of Dental Public Health. As Adjunct Lecturer at Stony Brook University Department of Sociology, he taught Medicine & Society, and as Adjunct Assistant Professor at the City College of New York, CUNY, he taught the Sociology of Health and Illness. His current research concerns hesitancy around the use of Silver Diamine Fluoride (SDF) in undeserved early childhood education settings.

Frederick is also an avid vinyl record collector and multi-instrumentalist, with a particular love of modular synthesis and guitar.