Medical Anthropology Students

  • Sheyda Aboii

    MSTP, MD/PhD Candidate AB, Harvard University, Government

    Geographic Areas of Interest: United States, Borders, Diaspora, and Time Geographies.

    Research Areas of Interest: Migration, Land Use, Work and Labor, Bodies, Value, Toxic Exposure, Community, Race, Outdoor Leisure, Subsistence Fishing, Waterways, and Public Goods.

  • Anjana Bala

    BA Human Biology, Stanford University; MSc Medical Anthropology, University College, London

    Geographic Areas of Interest: South Asia

    Research Areas of Interest: Mental health, dance and the body, health technologies, embodiment and performance, post-colonial studies

  • Fabian Fernandez

    MSTP, MD/PhD Candidate - MPH, Social Behavioral Sciences, Yale University; BA, Anthropology, Yale University

    Geographic Areas of Interest: United States, Latinx Diaspora

    Research Areas of Interest: State violence, prison abolition, sex work, migration, queer theory, critical race theory, health social movements, and HIV.

  • Carlos Martinez

    MPH, San Francisco State, 2015; BS, San Francisco State, 2012

    Geographic Areas of Interest: United States, Latin America (Central America, Venezuela, Cuba)

    Research Areas of Interest: Health social movements, physician and health worker activism, structural vulnerability, politically-structured health inequities, neoliberalism and health, migrant health, Latin American social medicine, critically applied public anthropology, critical public health

  • Bri Matusovsky

    BS, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Global Health Studies, Yale University

    Geographic Areas of Interest: United States, Romania, Ukraine, Russia

    Research Areas of Interest: Disability studies and activism, animal rights and welfare, biopower, zoonoses, systems of oppression, queer feminist approaches to anthropology, systemic violence, collective liberation, scientific research, clinical trials, bioethics

    Gender Identy: they/them

  • Rebecca Newmark

    BA in Anthropology, Princeton University, 2014; Post-Baccalaureate in Pre-Medical Studies, Northwestern University, 2016

    Research Area of Interest: embodiment, affect theory, feminist anthropologies, disgust and liminality, the body, competitive eating

  • Deren Pulley

    MPH, Public Health, University of North Carolina; BA, International and Area Studies, Washington University

    Geographic Areas of Interest: United States and Transnational spaces

    Research Areas of Interest: Anthropology of the body, embodiment, the microbiome, guts and goopy things, sanitation, cure, surgery, illness narratives, biomedical uncertainty, biopower, biopolitics, and public health epistemology

  • Tiffany Taylor

    A.B. in Political Science, Sociology, and Comparative Race and Ethnic Studies (Asian American Studies), the University of Chicago; MPH in Epidemiology, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health

    Geographic Areas of Interest: United States, Latin America, Caribbean

    Research Interests: Biopolitics, surveillance, governmentality, and human-machine interactions; bodies; psychological anthropology; citizenship, refugeeism, and immigration; health disparities, race, ethnicity, and women's health; feminist anthropology; social movements, cinema, media, and culture; disability studies.

  • Kara Zamora

    MA, Anthropology - CSU East Bay; BA Anthropology - University of Illinois at Chicago

    Geographic Areas of Interest: Philippine Islands, United States Pacific Island Territories, United States

    Research Areas of Interest: Chronic pain; complementary integrative health; citizenship, identity, nationality and trans-nationality in US Pacific Island territories; structural competency; graphic medicine

Medical Anthropology Alumni