Jessica Bodoh-Creed, Cal State LA, Outstanding Lecturer Award Winner, 2019

Dr. Jessica Bodoh-Creed, a Lecturer in the Anthropology Department at Cal State LA is the 2019 Winner of the Outstanding Lecturer Award.

Her research focuses on the “ER Effect,” which illustrates the ways in which audiences learn medical information from fictional television shows, celebrity physicians, and pharmaceutical advertisements. She has authored The Field Journal for Cultural Anthropology, and co-edited and contributed to the forthcoming The Everyday Life of Urban Inequality: Ethnographic Case Studies of Global Cities.

Bodoh-Creed conducts lectures for physicians as a part of their continuing medical education mandate. She is currently working on a new research project about women who are powerbrokers in Los Angeles.

Bodoh-Creed serves as project manager on the NSF Western Spokes Big Data Grant, sits on the university’s Fulbright committee, is the faculty sponsor for the Association of Student Anthropologists, and acts as a department lecturer representative for the California Faculty Association. She has also created the Department of Anthropology’s annual newsletter and worked on the department’s assessment committee.

In her nine years at Cal State LA, Bodoh-Creed has taught 21 different courses that include a graduate seminar across three departments in two colleges. Her students have participated in projects benefiting Los Angeles domestic violence shelters, as well as other community service agencies. She has sat on both undergraduate honors and graduate theses committees.

Bodoh-Creed earned her M.A. from Cal State LA and her Ph.D. from UC Riverside. She resides in the Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles.

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