Medical Anthropology Students

  • Jeremy Gottlieb

    MSTP, MD/PhD Candidate, BA, Cultural Anthropology, Duke University

    Geographic Areas of Interest: United States, Western Europe

    Research Areas of Interest: Science and Technology Studies, Trans Studies, Trans Children, Queer Theory, Interventional Psychiatry, Deep Brain Stimulation, Brain Imaging, Brain-Computer Interfaces, Disability Studies

    Pronouns: They/Them

  • Bri Matusovsky

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

    Geographic Areas of Interest: Caribbean (St. Kitts), United States, Eastern Europe (Romania, Russia, Ukraine)

    Research Areas of Interest: Anthropology of science and race, multi-species ethnography, post-colonial Caribbean studies, human/animal divide, human non-human primate interface, critical disability studies and activism, animal rights and welfare, queer feminist approaches to anthropology

  • Rebecca Newmark

    MSTP, MD/PhD Candidate , BA in Anthropology, Princeton University, 2014; Post-Baccalaureate in Pre-Medical Studies, Northwestern University, 2016

    Geographic Areas of Interest: United States, digital and virtual worlds

    Research Area of Interest: Embodiment, affect theory, feminist anthropologies, new media, digital ethnography, disgust and liminality, the body, skin, desire, consumption

  • Coryna Ogunseitan

    MSW, PhD Student, BA, Yale University, Literature

    Geographic Areas of Interest: United States, Brazil

    Research Areas of Interest: Environmental Anthropology, Psychological Anthropology, Climate Anxiety, Environmental Grief, Migration

    Pronouns: She/They

  • Emmanuel Otoah-Gyasi

    PhD Student, BA, Medical Anthropology, The University of North Carolina At Chapel Hill

    Geographic Areas of Interest: United States, Sub-Saharan Africa (Ghana, South Africa, Nigeria), Eastern Europe

    Research Areas of Interest: Anthropology of socio-cultural and institutional health dimensions, international health policy, global health inequities and social impacts, ethnography of clinical health studies; health behaviors

  • Deren Pulley

    PhD Candidate, 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

  • Nicholas Thomas-Lewis

    PhD Student, MSc in Evidence-Based Social Intervention and Policy Evaluation, MSc in Medical Anthropology – University of Oxford; BA in Cognitive Science, Health & Societies – University of Pennsylvania

    Geographic Areas of Interest: United States (San Francisco, Philadelphia, rural America)

    Research Areas of Interest: Addiction, adolescence, (neuro)medicalization, judicialization, agency, stigma, bio-/necropolitics, intervention, community, recovery

  • Athina Vrosgou

    MSTP, MD/PhD Student UCSF/Berkeley; MSc Medical Anthropology - Oxford; BA Cultural Anthropology - Duke University

    Geographic Areas of Interest: United States, Greece

    Research Areas of Interest: Conceptions of efficacy in healing, ritual healing, consciousness, technologies of prognostication and patient/caregiver experiences in (neuro)critical care settings, health care access, immigration/migration; phenomenology, sensory anthropology, science and technology, anthropology of biomedicine, biopolitics

  • Halle Young

    BA, Barnard College, Columbia University, Anthropology

    Geographic Areas of Interest: United States, clinical/therapeutic sites.

    Research Areas of Interest: Chronic illness, stigmatized pain, feminization, legibility, intervention, initimacy, diagnosis, sex, penetration, biopolitics, pleasure, somatization, biomedical ambiguity, affect theory.

Medical Anthropology Alumni