Medical Anthropology Students & Alumni

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Geographic Areas of Interest: U.S./Latin America Relations (Cuba, Panama, Columbia) or India

Research Areas of Interest: Influence of capitalism, neo-liberalism and new ways of governing in international healthcare, the transnational movement of bodies, patients or medical resources, medical tourism and procedure specific medical travel (CCSVI, Stem Cell therapy), and/or impact on personhood.

Dissertation Title: Queer Data: Medical Quantifcation and What Counts About Counting

MSTP MD/PhD; BA, Interdisciplinary Studies with focus on Medical Anthropology, New York University, Gallatin

Geographic Areas of Interest: United States

Research Areas of Interest: Gender and sexuality, medical education and socialization of providers, structural competency, queer theory, patient resistance and resiliency, clinical discourses of stigma and risk.

Geographic Areas of Interest: Nigeria, Brazil, Cuba, Africa and her diaspora

Research Areas of Interest: conceptualizations of sex, gender and sexuality, sexual and reproductive health, international health, colonial impacts on African societies, especially as it relates to sex and sexuality.

I am a social scientist specializing in the critical study of science, medicine, and health. My research investigates questions of stratification, embodiment, and the determinants of health disparities. My work draws from training and expertise in cultural and medical anthropology, sociology, biology and neuroscience, and public health. My project Stress and the Biopolitics of Work investigates the forms of scientific, economic, and political reasoning connecting contemporary work and the body in the United States. This research examines especially the intersecting racializations of work, modes of precarious living, and biomedical accounts of chronic disease. My current research centers on the institutional and political management of chronic illness in the United States. This research is connected to an interdisciplinary, team-based fieldwork project based at two urban public hospitals.

MSTP, MD/PhD; AB in Anthropology, Princeton University

Geographic Areas of Interest: Sierra Leone and Guinea

Research Areas of Interest: Critical global health studies, biosecurity, magic and witchcraft, political economy, medical pluralism, humanitarianism and NGOs, extractive industries and health, colonial medicine, public health and epidemiological discourse and knowledge production.

Dissertation Title: Life After Water: Detroit, Flint and the Postindustrial Politics of Health

Geographic Areas of Interest: United States; Egypt; the Middle East, Postcolonial America

Research Areas of Interest: water quality and systems in Michigan; protest and emergency medicine, humanitarian discourses and their uses, trauma and subjectivity; feminist embodiments; diabetes disparity; borders and blood ties

Dissertation Title: Homo Experimentus: Digital Selves and Digital Health in the Age of Innovation

Research Areas of Interest: Gender, sexuality, sex hormones and normalizing technologies; intersex studies, queer theories/studies, social studies of science and technology (or STS) disability studies, identity politics, social movements and medicine; endocrinology and pediatric medicine

Dissertation Title: Digitally-Mediated Intimacies between the Living and the Dead

Geographic Areas of Interest: Alaska

Research Areas of Interest: Masculinity, queer theory, globalization, development, (bio)medicalization; palliative care

Dissertation Title: The Turn Toward Value: An Ethnography of Efficiency and Satisfaction in the American Hospital

Geographic Areas of Interest: United States and the world

Research Areas of Interest: Death and dying; hospice and palliative care; anthropology of the body; subjectivity; pain and suffering; globalization and neoliberalism; medical education/medical humanities

Dissertation Title: To Be Delivered: Pregnant and Born Again in Nigeria

Research Areas of Interest: gender, sexuality, maternal and reproductive health, health technologies in low-income countries setting, refugee and immigration health, intersections between religion, ritual and health behaviors, politics of international aid

Dissertation Title: Population Anxiety in Black Papua: The Politics of Reproduction and Racialization in Peripheral Indonesia

Geographic Areas of Interest: Indonesia

Research Areas of Interest: Gender and Reproductive Health; Post-colonial Studies; Global Health; Intersections of Social Formations, Power, and Health; Communities of Color; Health Disparities.

Dissertation Title: Walking in a Very Dangerous Space: An Ethnography at the Edges of Adolescence and Psychosis

Geographic Areas of Interest: Latin America, Iberia, Tribal nations, United States

Research Areas of Interest: Mental health, substance abuse and recovery, prodromal psychosis, evidence based practice, risk allocation and early treatment, health and healing narratives.

Dissertation Title: Patients are Waiting: Temporal Logics and Practices of Safety-Net Primary Care

Geographic Areas of Interest: United States

Research Areas of Interest: Primary care practice changes; Care in clinical settings focused on increased efficiency; Interprofessional collaboration, Group care models

Dissertation Title: Biopharmaceutical Solidarity: Cuban Cancer Vaccines and 21st Century Socialist Science

Geographic Areas of Interest: Latin America (Brazil, Cuba, Ecuador, Mexico, Venezuela), US, Scandinavia, healthcare in transitional economies

Research Areas of Interest: Influence of power and profit on the clinical encounter, healthcare reform, pharmaceutical treatment of chronic psychiatric and somatic suffering, migration, refugees, cultural and economic constructions of primary care, trans-national healthcare utilization, global pharmaceuticals.

Dissertation Title: Crooked Children: The Morality and Aesthetics of Managing Latvian Bodies

BA German Studies, Mount Holyoke College, USA; MSc Anthropology of Learning and Cognition, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK

Geographic Areas of Interest: Eastern Europe, Latvia in particular, other post-Soviet countries, Africa

Research Areas of Interest: Global health, child health and research methodology in childhood, body politics, childhood obesity, pharmaceuticalization of medicine and chronic childhood diseases

Dissertation Title: Intimate Innovation: Subjectivity, Political Economy and a Novel Method to Prevent HIV

Ryan is a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow.

Geographic Areas of Interest: United States, global and local clinical trials, and public health systems

Research Areas of Interest: stakes of participation in medicine, prevention as a mode of medical care, and innovation in HIV treatment and prevention programs; affect, citizenship and knowledge production