• is an applied research and technical assistance unit in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Maryland College Park (UMCP);
   
• was initiated in 1989, with a mission of offering expertise in cultural and community analysis using knowledge and skills grounded in anthropology, community health, and ethnographic research methods;
   
• has a philosophical orientation towards facilitating social change through the design, implementation, and evaluation of community-based initiatives; and
   
• provides anthropologically based knowledge and skills to people and groups involved in community-based initiatives at the local, state, regional, national, and international levels.

Comments on CuSAG Programs from the Field

Current Developments and Activities

• CuSAG announces a new Field School in Applied Urban Ethnographic and Community Health Sciences for the first summer session 2010.
• Dr. Tony Whitehead will present "Healthcare Reform and Racialized Urban Ghettoes: A Role for Community-Based Participatory Research" at the 16th Annual Summer Public Health Research Institute and Videoconference on Minority Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on June 8, 2010. (Abstract)
• CuSAG has submitted a proposed session for the American Anthropological Association's annual meeting (Nov. 17-21, New Orleans) titled "Applied Ethnography and CuSAG at Twenty!" Panelists will present their current work and recount their experiences as CuSAG alumni.

Recent Developments and Activities

• Seminar series on Applied Urban Ethnography and Community Health Sciences - Dr. Judith Freidenberg presented “Epistemology of Ethnographic Knowledge: Virtual Versus Conventional Ethnography” - May 4, 2010. Find more details here.
• CuSAG exhibited the Urban Health and Human Ecology Project at Maryland Day - April 24, 2010
• Seminar series on Applied Urban Ethnography and Community Health Sciences - Dr. Tony Whitehead spoke at the inaugural session November 12, 2009. Find more details here.
• Read: The Reintegration of Prisoners within the Jamaican Society by George Young
• Report from a May 1, 2009 Workshop on a Multi-Sectorial Approach to Prison- Community Reentry: Towards A University-Community Outreach Network
• A memorandum of understanding has been established for a collaborative agreement between the University of Maryland, College Park and the University of the West Indies. See a brief media release about this development here.

See All Recent and Current CuSAG Activities here.