Dr. Michael Duke
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology
E-mail: m.duke@memphis.edu

Gender and masculinity; labor; Latin American and Caribbean populations; mental health; migration; research methods; sexual risk; social movements; substance abuse; social theory.

Michael Duke is a Social/Medical Anthropologist (University of Texas at Austin 1996) with over 20 years of experience carrying out social research focusing on the intersection of labor, substance abuse, migration, gender and masculinity, sexuality, and mental health, particularly among Latin American and Caribbean populations. He is also an internationally recognized expert on qualitative and mixed method research, particularly with hard-to-reach populations, and has written and lectured extensively on this topic. His dissertation research examined the influence of mass media on ritual healing and shamanic practice in a community in rural Mexico. The study focused in particular on the dialogic relationship between local and global culture in shaping the meanings ascribed hallucinogenic mushrooms and their ritual use.

After completing his degree, Dr. Duke served as a Research Scientist with the Hispanic Health Council , a research, social service, and advocacy organization in Hartford, CT. While there, he served as Principal Investigator or Co-Investigator on multiple studies, including an investigation of mental health treatment barriers for Puerto Rican adolescents and a large, National Institute of Health-funded study of heavy drinking and sexual risk among New England-based farmworkers. This was followed by an investigation on the physical and mental health effects of migration on a rural sending community in Mexico. He also served as Co-Investigator of a study on syringe sharing and HIV risk among injection drug users in China's Guangdong Province. Concurrently, he was an affiliated faculty member at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS, Yale University School of Medicine. Dr. Duke's subsequent research at the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation's Prevention Research Center (PRC, Berkeley, CA) focused on heavy drinking and their associated problems among blue collar populations, specifically construction workers, restaurant workers, and military personnel. While at PRC, he also served as Principal Investigator on two studies; one focusing on problem drinking and partner violence among farmworkers in San Diego County, CA, and the other on stress and alcohol use among day laborers. Dr. Duke was also a lecturer at the University of California Berkeley School of Public Health, and at California State University-East Bay's Department of Anthropology. Dr. Duke is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Memphis.

Recent Publications

Moore, R.S., Ames, G.M., Cunradi, C.B., and Duke, M.R. 2012. Alcohol policy comprehension and compliance among young adult restaurant workers. Journal of Workplace Behavioral Health, 27(3): 181-195.

Bourdeau, B., Miller, B. A., Vanya, M., Duke, M.R, and Ames, G. M. 2012. Defining alcohol-specific rules among parents of older adolescents: Moving beyond no tolerance. Journal of Family Communication, 12(2), 111-128.

Moore, R.S., Ames, G.M., Duke, M.R., and Cunradi, C.B. 2012. Food service employee alcohol use, hangovers and norms during and after work hours. Journal of Substance Use, 17(3), 269-276.

Bourdeau, B., Miller, B. A., Duke, M. R., and Ames, G. M. 2011. Parental strategies for knowledge of teens' friends: Distinct from monitoring? Journal of Child and Family Studies, 20, 814-821.

Cunradi, C.M., Ames, G.M., and Duke, M.R. 2011. The relationship of alcohol problems to risk for unidirectional and bidirectional intimate partner violence among a sample of blue-collar couples. Violence and Victims, 26(2): 147-158.

Duke, M.R. 2011. Ethnicity, well being, and the organization of labor among shade tobacco workers. Medical Anthropology, 30(4): 409-424.

Duke, M.R., and Cunradi, C. B. 2011. Measuring intimate partner violence among male and female farmworkers in San Diego County, CA. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology,17(1): 59-67.

Duke, M.R., Moore, R.S., and Ames, G.M. 2011. PTSD treatment seeking and access among rural Latino veterans: A review of the literature. Journal of Rural Social Sciences, 26(3): 74-100.

Duke, M.R, Bergmann, L., and Ames, G.M. 2010. Competition and the limits of solidarity among unionized construction workers. Anthropology of Work Review, 31(2): 83-91.

Duke, M.R., Bourdeau, B., and Hovey, J.D. 2010. Day laborers and occupational stress: Testing the Migrant Farmworker Stress Inventory with a Latino day laborer population. Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology, 16(2): 116-122.

Goméz Carpintiero, F.J., and Duke, M.R. 2010. Chisme y reputación: Soberania y subjetividades rurales en la globalización. Estudios Sociológicos, 28(84): 729-752.

Ames, G.M., Duke, M.R., Moore, R.S., and Cunradi, C.B.2009.The impact of occupational culture on drinking behavior of young adults in the U.S. Navy. Journal of Mixed Methods Research 3(2):129-150.

Cunradi, C.M., Todd, M., Duke, M.R., and Ames, G.M. 2009. Problem drinking, unemployment, and intimate partner violence among a sample of construction industry workers and their partners. Journal of Family Violence 24: 63-74.

Duke, M.R. and Gómez Carpenteiro. F.J. 2009. The effects of problem drinking and sexual risk among Mexican migrant workers on their community of origin. Human Organization 68(3): 328-339.

Moore, R.S., Cunradi, C.B., Duke, M.R. and Ames, G.M. 2009. Dimensions of problem drinking among young adult restaurant workers. American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse 35(5): 329-333.

Duke, M.R., and Ames, G.M. 2008. Challenges of contraceptive use and pregnancy prevention among women in the U.S. Navy. Qualitative Health Research 18(2):244-253.

Duke, M., Li, J.H., and Singer, M. 2008. Drug use, syringe sharing and HIV risk in the People's Republic of China. In HIV/AIDS: Stories of a Global Epidemic, Cynthia Pope and Renee White, eds. Pp. 40-49. New York: Routledge.

Duke, M.R., and Mateo, W. 2008. Disparities in access to behavioral health services for Puerto Rican-descended adolescents. Human Organization 67(1):68-76.

Gómez Carpenteiro. F.J., and Duke, M.R. 2008. "Cuidarse a sí mismo": Trabajadores transmigrantes, alcohol y riesgo de VIH en la globalización neoliberal. Globalización y sujetos sociales: Etnografías desde experiencias mexicanas, F.J. Gómez Carpenteiro, ed., pp. 83-112. Puebla, Mex: Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla & Casa Juan Pablos.

Duke, M., and Li, J.H. 2006. Medical anthropology in the USA and China in the context of the AIDS syndemic. Journal of Guangxi University for Nationalities 28(3): 9-13.

Duke, M., Teng, W.,Clair, S., Salaheen, H., Choice, P., and Singer, M. 2006. Patterns of intimate partner violence among drug using women. Free Inquiry in Creative Sociology, 34(1): 29-38.

Lin, P., Fu, X., Li, J.H., Wang, Y., Zhong, W., Singer, M., Duke, M., Xu, R., Yang, F., Liu, Y., Zhao, X., He, O., Sun, B., Chen, M., Fan, Z., and Huang. L. 2006. Characteristics of drug use and sexual behavior among injection drug users in Guangdong province. Chinese Journal Of AIDS and STDs 12(2): 117-120.

Cheng, Y., Li, J.H., Duke, M., and Singer, M. 2004. Community Outreach: A Case Study Among Guangzhou Injection Drug Users. Journal of Guangxi University for Nationalities 26(4): 83-87.

Duke, M., Santelices, C., Nicolaysen, A.M., and Galarza Rivera, J.E. 2004. La Producción y las condiciones laborales en las fincas del tabaco de sombra del Valle Río Connecticut. Revista Chilena de Antropología Visual 4.

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Yang, F., Lin, P., Wang, Y., Li, JH, Fu, X., Zhong, W., Liu, Y., He, O., Zhao, X., Duke, M., Sun, B., Xu, R., and Singer, M. 2004. Qualitative study of drug use and syringe sharing among IDUs in Guangdong. South China Journal of Preventive Medicine 3(6), December 2004: 1-4.

Brook, DW, Brook, JS, Rubenstone, L, Zhang, C., Singer, M, and Duke, M. 2003. Alcohol use in adolescents whose fathers abuse drugs. Journal of Addictive Diseases 22(1):11-34.

Duke, M. 2003. Middle American Ethnology. Handbook of Latin American Studies, Vol. 59. Washington, DC: Library of Congress, pp. 87-100.

Duke, M. (Contributing Editor). 2003. New Advancements in Preventive Medicine (Yu fang yi xue xin jin zhan): Continuing Education Textbook for Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region (Nei meng gu zi zhi qu ji xu yi xue jiao yu du ben). Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, P.R.C.: Yuanfang Press.

Duke, M. and Mateo, W. 2003 The ABHSY Study: Access to Behavioral Health Services for Youth or Puerto Rican Descent. Research Focus 1(2): 6-7.

Duke, M, Santelices, C., Nicolaysen, A.M., and Singer, M. 2003. "No somos la migra": The challenges of research among stationary Mexican farmworkers in the Northeastern United States. Practicing Anthropology 25(1): 26-29.

Duke, M, Singer, M., and Li, J.H. 2003. The application of RARE in public health (Kuai su ping gu zai gong gong wei sheng ling yu de ying yong). Continuing Education Textbook for Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region (Nei meng gu zi zhi qu ji xu yi xue jiao yu du ben). Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, P.R.C.: Yuanfang Press.

Duke, M., Singer, M., Li, J.H., and Pelia, P. 2003A community-based organization builds an international initiative. Anthropology News 44(1):15.

Duke, M., Teng, W., Simmons, J., and Singer, M. 2003. Structural and interpersonal violence among Puerto Rican drug users. Practicing Anthropology 25(3): 28-31.

Duke, M. 2002. Establishing emergency shelter services for substance abusing victims of domestic violence: Structural, political, and cultural barriers. Society for Applied Anthropology Newsletter 13(3), August.

Duke, M. 2002. Drinking behaviors among Connecticut farmworkers. Research Focus 1(1): 9.

Singer, M., Li, J.H., Duke, M. and Pelia, P. 2002. Bringing Qualitative Methods to HIV/AIDS Research In Jiangmen, China. Society for Applied Anthropology Newsletter 13(4):4-6.

Li, J.H., Singer, M, and Duke, M. 2002. In fight against AIDS, China its own worst enemy. Hartford Courant, 9/15/02, p. C3.

Duke, M., Singer, M, and Li, J.H. 2002. Transcending boundaries/translating research: Building an international health research initiative by a community based organization. Anthropology News 44(1):15.

Duke, M. 2001. Staying clean: Notes on Mazatec ritual celibacy and sexual orientation. Celibacy, Culture, and Society: The Anthropology of Sexual Abstinence, Sandra Bell & Elisa Janine Sobo, eds., pp. 125‑136. University of Wisconsin Press.

Singer, M., Simmons, J., Duke, M., and Broomhall, L. 2001. The challenges of street research on drug use, violence, and AIDS Risk. Addiction Research and Theory 9(4): 365-402.

Singer, M., Weeks, M., and Duke, M. 1999. Building bridges to drug treatment: A role for applied anthropology. AIDS and Anthropology Bulletin 11(2):1‑4.

Spanhel, C., and Duke, M. 1998. The status of racial/ ethnic minorities in the Texas legal profession. Texas Bar Journal, October.

Spanhel, C., and Duke, M.1998. The status of women in the Texas legal profession. Texas Bar Journal, November.

Duke, M. 1995. Writing Mazateco: Linguistic Standardization and Social Power. Texas Linguistic Forum 3: 305-314

Awards and Fellowships

Professional Development Award, Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation 2010

Professional Development Award, Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation 2009

Professional Development Award, Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation 2008

Professional Development Award, Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation 2007

Professional Development Award, Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation 2006