The Ethnography of a Social Work Intern

Dr. Pollie Bith-Melander is a medical anthropologist and a clinical social worker. She received her BA in Anthropology from the University of California at Berkeley, her MA and PhD degrees in Medical Anthropology from the University of Hawaii - Manoa, an MSW degree from California State University at East Bay, and a pupil personnel service credential from California State University at San Jose. She is a faculty at California State University at Stanislaus in the Social Work Department. Her research focuses on various aspects of trauma and has worked with the military, veterans, refugees, and immigrants. She is working on a book entitled "exiled" based on her recent film. The book focuses on refugees and what happened to those who are trapped between two cultures and neither of the countries accepts them. In addition to non-fiction publications, she also writes fiction. One fiction published in 2010 entitled Caged Bird will fly. Her upcoming fiction examines our thought processes through making our thoughts resurface into reality. It is called Hella Indigo.