Thomas Marchione, PhD

Affiliate Faculty

Dr. Marchione is an adjunct professor in the Department of Global and Community Health, teaching a graduate seminar, Food Security and Hunger in Developing Countries. He is a nutritional anthropologist and Fellow in the Society of Applied Anthropology.  His research and applied policy studies focus on the intersections of food security, nutrition, development and human rights in less developed countries, including field studies in Latin America, the Caribbean, south Asia, and in a number of Sub-Saharan African countries.   Dr. Marchione has taught in the medical anthropology program at Case Western Reserve University, and he has served as a social scientist with the Pan American Health Organization in Jamaica and a food security and nutrition advisor in the United States Agency for International Development.  He earned an M.A. in Cultural Anthropology at Catholic University in Washington, D.C., and a Ph.D. in Medical Anthropology at the University of Connecticut.