Robert Schrauf is professor and head of the Department of
Applied
Linguistics at Penn State University. He completed a
doctorate in medical anthropology with a specialization in cognitive
anthropology at Case Western Reserve University and postdoctoral
training in cognitive psychology at Duke University. From 2000 to
2004 he was an assistant professor at the Feinberg School of Medicine at
Northwestern University with an appointment in the Buehler Center on
Aging. He is a Fellow of the
Gerontological Society of America
and past-president of the
Association for Anthropology and
Gerontology.
His research in cross-cultural gerontology and health focuses on:
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language, culture, and cognitive aging
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applied linguistics and health sciences
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bilingual autobiographical memory.
His research has been supported
by the National Institute on Aging, the National Institute of Mental
Health, the Alzheimer’s Association, and others.
Current projects include research on intra- and intercultural
variation in Alzheimer’s disease and aging, and the development of
internet-based, video-conferenced educational programs in
clinical
medical interpreting.