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I earned my bachelor's degree in Cultural Anthropology at UCLA in 2001. After a several years traveling, working and experimenting with life, I returned to my original disciplinary love, but with a focus. I completed an MA in Medical Anthropology at Case Western Reserve University in 2007 and a doctorate in Health & Behavioral Sciences at CU Denver. Armed with a shameless love for theory and an interdisciplinary perspective, I turned my attention to popular representations of methamphetamine use and the stigma that results from the troubling stereotypes. I obtained my PhD in 2012 and spent the next two years spearheading an NIH-funded study of drug acquisition and survival among methamphetamine users in Northern Colorado.

​Though I now work primarily as a freelance journalist, well outside the halls of academia, I continue to teach the occasional university course and consult
 on health-related research.

Academic Publications
Conroy, Amy A., Stacey A. McKenna, Anna Leddy, Mallory O. Johnson, Thulani Ngubane, Lynae A. Darbes,  Heidi van Rooyen. (2017). “If She is Drunk, I Don’t Want Her to Take it”: Partner Beliefs and Influence on Use of Alcohol and Antiretroviral Therapy in South African Couples. 21(7): 1885–1891.​
McKenna, Stacey A. "The Social Value of Drug Addicts: Uses of the Useless." (2015). Journal of Anthropological Research. pp. 447-448.
McKenna, Stacey A. (2014). Navigating the risk environment: Structural vulnerability, sex, and reciprocity among women    
     who use meth. International Journal of Drug Policy. 25(1): 112-115.
McKenna, Stacey A. (2013). "The meth factor": Group membership, information management, and the navigation of
     stigma. Contemporary Drug Problems. 40(3): 351-385.
McKenna, Stacey A. (2013). "We're supposed to be asleep?": Vigilance, paranoia and the alert methamphetamine
     user. Anthropology of Consciousness. 24(2): 172-190.
McKenna, Stacey A. and Deborah S. Main (2013). The role and influence of informants in community-engaged research: A
     critical perspective. Action Research. 11(2): 113-124.
McKenna, Stacey, Patricia Iwasaki, Tracey Stewart, and Deborah Main. (2011). Key informants and community members
     in community-based participatory research: One is not like the other. Progress in Community Health Partnerships:
     Research, Education, and Action
. 5(4): 387-397.
McKenna, Stacey A. (2011). Maintaining class, producing gender: Enhancement discourses about amphetamine in
     entertainment media. International Journal of Drug Policy. 22(6): 455-462.
McKenna, Stacey A. (2011). Reproducing hegemony: The culture of enhancement and discourses of amphetamines in
     popular fiction. Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry. 35: 90-97.


Monographs
McKenna, Stacey A. (2012). The Meth Factor: Stigma, Authoritative Discourse, and Women Who Use. UC Denver, Department of Health & Behavioral Sciences. (Dissertation).
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