Jody Glittenberg

Jody Glittenberg retired as a Professor Emerita in Nursing, Anthropology, and Psychiatry. She authored several award winning books in nursing and anthropology. Her leadership role in nursing is recognized in her professorships at the U. of Colorado, U. of Illinois, Chicago. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and U. of Arizona, Tucson. She is a member of the American Academy of Nursing, a Fellow in the Society for Anthropology, a Transcultural Nursing Scholar and recipient of the first...See more

Jody Glittenberg retired as a Professor Emerita in Nursing, Anthropology, and Psychiatry. She authored several award winning books in nursing and anthropology. Her leadership role in nursing is recognized in her professorships at the U. of Colorado, U. of Illinois, Chicago. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and U. of Arizona, Tucson. She is a member of the American Academy of Nursing, a Fellow in the Society for Anthropology, a Transcultural Nursing Scholar and recipient of the first Leininger Award in transcultural nursing. Jody has been a leader in bringing issues of mental illness to the public. Her role as Director of the Violence, Intervention, and Prevention (VIP) Center at the U. of Colorado, Colorado Springs involved research on recidivism in prisons and addressing rape in prison. Her work around the world in teaching psychiatric nursing was especially recognized in the Peoples'Republic of China, Papua New Guinea, and Australia. Jody's role in fostering anthropologic studies at the NIH was especially important in introducing the value of qualitative studies in all research studies. She also was a consultant to the CDC on use of ethnography in applied research study. Dr. Glittenberg was a member of the Advisory Board (1998-2002) Fogarty International Center at the NIH She also was part of the establishment of the first WHO Collaborating Center for Primary Nursing, U of IllChicago and the Collaborating Center for Board Health, U of Az.Tucson. Dr. Glittenberg was the Acting Regional Advisor for Nursing in the Western Pacific Region, Manila and a Visiting Professor at Queensland Institute, Brisbane, and Melborne Institute, Melborne, Australia. She was on the Selection Committee for the Barbara Chester Award for clinical work dealing with torture. This is an international Hopi advocacy foundation against torture Several of Dr. Glittenberg's writings have become classics in anthropology and in nursing: co-authored "Out of Uniform and Into Trouble (1972 Mosby) co- authored."The Biocultual Basis of Health)1987 Waveland Press. single author "To the Mountain and Back" (1994 Waveland Press). and "Violence and Hope in a US BorderTown" (2008 Waveland Press) Jody is married to Joel Hinrichs of Centennail Colo. They have a mix of seven children, 10 grandkids and one great grandson. They are writers and musicians bent on bringing social justice to the world. See less