Lee D. Hoffer, Ph.D., M.P.E.
SELECT PUBLICATIONS
(2013) Hoffer Lee, Alam, Shah Jama. "Copping" in Heroin Markets: The Hidden Information Costs of Indirect Sales and Why They Matter. (In) Greenberg, A. M., Kennedy, W. G., Bos, N. D. (Eds.): Social Computing, Behaviorial-Cultural Modeling and Prediction - 6th International Conference, SBP 2013, Washington, D. C. Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) 7812, Springer 2013, ISBN 978-3-642-37209-4.
(2013) Lee Hoffer was featured in CWRU College of Arts and Sciences Fall 2012 / Winter 2013 magazine art/sci. The article, written by Arthur Evenchik, was entitled "Street-Level Anthropology. Lee Hoffer and his students enter the worlds of illegal drug users."
(2013) Hoffer L.D., Unreal Models of Real Behavior: The Agent-Based Modeling Experience. Practicing Anthropology, 35 (1): 19-23.
(2012) Schlosser A.V. and Hoffer L.D., The Psychotropic Self/Imaginary: Subjectivity and Psychopharmaceutical Use Among Heroin Users with Co-Occurring Mental Illness. Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, 36 (1): 26-50.
(2012) Hoffer L. D., Bobashev G., and Morris R.J., Simulating Patterns of Heroin Addiction within the Social Context of a Local Heroin Market. (In) Computational Neuroscience of Drug Addiction. Gutkin & Ahmed (Eds.) New York: Springer.
(2009) Hoffer L. D., Bobashev G., and Morris R.J., Researching a Local Heroin Market as a Complex Adaptive System. American Journal of Community Psychology, 44: 273-286.
(2006) Hoffer L. D., The Larimer Scene (1993 - 1997). Junkie Business: the Evolution and Operation of a Heroin Dealing Network. Belmont, CA: Thomson Wadsworth Publishing.
(2005) Hoffer L. D. "Junkie Business: The Evolution and Operation of a Heroin Dealing Network." Belmont, CA: Thomson Wadsworth Publishing. ISBN-10: 0534644953
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(1999) Clatts M.C., Heimer R., Abdala N., Goldsamt L. A., Sotheran J. L., Anderson K. T., Gallo T. M., Hoffer L. D., Luciano P. A., and Kyriakides T., HIV-1 Transmission in Injection Paraphernalia: Heating Drug Solutions May Inactivate HIV-1. Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes, 22 (2): 194-200.
(1994) Koester S. and Hoffer L. D., Indirect Sharing: Additional Risks Associated with Drug Injection. Aids and Public Policy Journal, 9 (2): 100-105.
A full list of publications and presentations is also available in Dr. Hoffer's Curriculum Vitae (.pdf)
SELECT PRESENTATIONS
2009 / 2008 / 2007 / 2006 / 2005
TITLE: Agent Based Models in Anthropology (with Michael Agar)
VENUE: (Workshop) the Society of Applied Anthropology, Santa Fe, NM. March 20, 2009
TITLE: An agent-based model of a heroin market: Evaluating the dynamics of social interaction
VENUE: World Health Interest Group (WHIG), Center for Global Health and Disease, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH. March 6, 2009
TITLE: Applied experimental ethnography: Using computational simulation to evaluate explanatory models of social process
VENUE: 68th annual meeting, Society for Applied Anthropology, Memphis, TN. March, 2008
TITLE: Complexity Theory, Medical Anthropology, and the Operation of a Heroin Market
VENUE: Department of Anthropology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH. February, 2008
TITLE: Illicit Drug Markets and Complex Adaptive Systems
VENUE: Computational Modeling and Systems Biology of Drug Abuse, National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD. January, 2008
TITLE: Computational Ethnography: Applying Complexity Theory to Enrich Ethnography
VENUE: 106th meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington D.C., November, 2007
TITLE: Illicit drug markets as complex adaptive systems: Results from the Illicit Drug Market Simulation Project
VENUE: (Workshop) Mathematical Modeling in Biological & Epidemiological Studies of Addiction, College on Problems of Drug Dependence, Quebec City, Quebec. June, 2007
TITLE: Combining Ethnography and Complexity Theory to Understand the Dynamics of Illicit Drug Markets
VENUE: Research Triangle International, Durham, NC. May, 2007
TITLE: Junkie Business: Applying Complexity Theory to Understand the Public Health Significance of Heroin Dealing & illicit Drug Markets
VENUE: Department of Anthropology, Washington University, St. Louis, MO. January, 2007
TITLE: Simulating the Operation of a Local Heroin Market: New uses for Ethnographic Research
VENUE: College on Problems of Drug Dependence, Scottsdale, AZ. June, 2006
TITLE: The Illicit Drug Market Simulation Project: Making sense of a Local Heroin Market
VENUE: STEP: Science and Technology Expert Partnership, The MITRE Corporation, Director of National Intelligence, McLean, VA. May, 2006
TITLE: The Illicit Drug Market Simulation Project: Ethnography & Agent-based Modeling
VENUE: National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD. May, 2006
TITLE: The Illicit Drug Market Simulation Project: Combining Ethnography & Agent-based Modeling
VENUE: Redfish Group, Santa Fe, NM. April, 2006
TITLE: Transforming a Heroin Market: A Microcosm of the War on Drugs
VENUE: Society for Applied Anthropology, Vancouver, BC. March, 2006
TITLE: Using Agent-Based Modeling to Better Understand Heroin Dealing & Illegal Drug Markets
VENUE: Agent 2005, Argonne National Laboratory & University of Chicago, Chicago, Il, October, 2005
A full list of publications and presentations is also available in Dr. Hoffer's Curriculum Vitae (.pdf)
Department of Anthropology
Case Western Reserve University
Mather Memorial, Room 205
11220 Bellflower Road
Cleveland, Ohio 44106
PHONE: 216.368.2631
EMAIL: lee.hoffer@case.edu
