Anthropology Faculty and Honors Transfer Program Coordinator
B.A., M.A., California State University, Los Angeles
Ph.D., University of California, Riverside
jmillerthayer@citruscollege.edu
(626) 852-8086
CI 247

Dr. Jennifer Miller-Thayer is a four-field trained anthropologist (cultural, biological, and linguistic anthropology and archaeology) focusing on cultural and medical subfields, with training and experience in applied anthropology. She began her college career at Pasadena City College, then transferred to California State University, Los Angeles, where she completed her bachelor of arts and master of arts in cultural anthropology. Her master's thesis explored Chinese American elder care in the San Gabriel Valley to understand the challenges faced by the Chinese American community in providing safe, good-quality care for their aging family members. She attended a joint medical anthropology program for a year at the University of California, San Francisco/University of California, Berkeley. She trained in theory and methods for medical anthropology, then transferred to the University of California, Riverside, where she graduated with her Ph.D. in December 2010. Her dissertation topic was cross-border healthcare at the United States-Mexican border, where she examined the practice of U.S. residents going to Mexico for various types of medical and dental care they could not access in the U.S.

After teaching honors courses for nearing two decades and serving as the Honors Transfer Program Advisory Committee chair for three years, she became the honors transfer program coordinator in fall 2021.

revised July 6, 2023