Gwendolyn Saul, MA, Anthropology
Research Associate
Behavioral Health Research Center of the Southwest
Albuquerque, New Mexico

Phone: 505-765-2327
Fax: 505-244-3408
Email: gsaul@bhrcs.org


Gwen Saul is an ethnographer working as a part-time employee with BHRCS since January, 2006. Prior to joining the BHRCS staff, Ms. Saul was a teaching assistant at the Ethnographic Field School at Northwestern University, and a Research Assistant for the Anthropology Department at the University of New Mexico. She also interned in Collections and Textile Conservation at the Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian in Santa Fe.

Gwen is currently part of the ethnographic team working on Multi-Method Ethnographic Assessment of Behavioral Health Reform in New Mexico. The study uses ethnography, surveys, and reviews of administrative databases to examine the introduction of a new managed behavioral health care system in the largely rural and ethnically diverse state of New Mexico.

Ms. Saul graduated with a MA in Anthropology from the University of New Mexico in 2004. She earned her BA in 2001 from Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY. Gwen is pursuing her PhD in Anthropology from the University of New Mexico.

In addition to her work at BHRCS, Ms. Saul is employed as an Assistant Archivist at the National Hispanic Cultural Center, and as a Collections and Textile Conservation Assistant at the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology at the University of New Mexico. She serves as a volunteer and docent at the National Hispanic Cultural Center and is a consultant with the Trickster film Company in Austin, TX. She is a member of the Society for Applied Anthropology.