Eugene Raikhel is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Comparative Human Development at the University of Chicago. A medical and cultural anthropologist by training, he is particularly interested in the circulation of new forms of knowledge and clinical intervention produced by biomedicine, neuroscience and psychiatry. He is currently completing a book which examines the political-economic, epidemiological and clinical changes that have transformed the knowledge and medical management of alcoholism and addiction in Russia over the past twenty years. With William Garriott he is editor of Addiction Trajectories (Duke UP, 2013). Eugene is the founder and Editor of Somatosphere.

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Todd Meyers is Associate Professor of Anthropology at NYU Shanghai. His publications include Realizing the Witch: Science, Cinema, and the Mastery of the Invisible (with Richard Baxstrom, Fordham University Press, 2016), The Clinic and Elsewhere: Addiction, Adolescents, and the Afterlife of Therapy(U Washington Press, 2013) and (with Stefanos Geroulanos) Experimente im Individuum: Kurt Goldstein und die Frage des Organismus (Berlin: August Verlag, 2013). Todd co-edits the Forms of Living book series at Fordham University Press and is the Associate Editor of Somatosphere..

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Seth Messinger is a researcher with the Center for Rehabilitation Sciences Research at the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences. He received his PhD in anthropology from Columbia University in 2003, and from 2002 – 2004 held an NIMH funded postdoctoral fellowship at the Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research at Rutgers University. His research interests include the anthropology of biomedicine and psychiatry, trauma, memory, and history. Seth is the Book Reviews Editor for Somatosphere.

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Anna Zogas is a PhD candidate in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Washington. Her dissertation research is about how medical uncertainty and disability compensation practices intersect to shape the phenomenon of mild traumatic brain injury (TBI) in the US military healthcare system and the Department of Veterans Affairs.

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Lily Shapiro is a graduate student in Sociocultural Anthropology at the University of Washington, Seattle with a focus on medical anthropology and South Asian Studies. Her research concerns factory accidents and reconstructive plastic surgery in South India; through this lens she is interested in exploring the body, occupational health, labor, and the globalization of medical expertise and technologies.

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Greg Clinton is a PhD candidate in the Department of Cultural Analysis and Theory at Stony Brook University. His dissertation focuses on the architecture of safety, including the cultural and political significance of survival shelters, safe homes, and clean rooms. His work links medical and environmental humanities, literary theory, disability studies, and critical theories of space and place. Greg has lived, taught, and studied in the Midwestern U.S. as well as various locations in Egypt, Belgium, Japan, Sudan, India, and now, Long Island. Greg is the Managing Editor of Somatosphere.

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Dominique P. Béhague is a social anthropologist and critical health scholar. Her research on Brazilian social psychiatry, adolescent psychopathology, and evidence production in global health is underpinned by an interest in the social, political and material life of marginalized epistemic values and practices. She is Associate Professor of Medicine, Health and Society at Vanderbilt University; Senior Lecturer at the Department of Social Science, Health & Medicine at King’s College London; and Honorary Lecturer at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

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Betsey Brada is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Reed College. Betsey Brada is a cultural anthropologist specializing in health and medicine in southern Africa. She received her Ph.D. in 2011 from the University of Chicago. She comes to Reed this fall from Princeton University where she taught and mentored students in the interdisciplinary Program in Global Health and Health Policy. Her research and teaching interests include: medical anthropology; the anthropology of pedagogy and expertise; and the ethnography and history of Africa. Her book manuscript in progress argues that global health, rather than a unidirectional flow of moral practice and expert knowledge from North to South, is an imaginative framework that organizes the space, time, and ethics of encounter.

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Suparna Choudhury is an Assistant Professor at the Division of Social & Transcultural Psychiatry, McGill University and an Investigator at the Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research. She did her doctoral research in cognitive neuroscience at University College London, postdoctoral research in transcultural psychiatry at McGill and most recently directed an interdisciplinary research program on critical neuroscience and the developing brain at the Max Planck Institute for History of Science in Berlin. Her current work investigates the production and dissemination of biomedical knowledge – in particular cognitive neuroscience – that shapes the ways in which researchers, clinicians, patients and laypeople understand themselves, their mental health and their illness experiences. Dr. Choudhury’s research focuses primarily on the cases of the adolescent brain, cultural neuroscience and personalized genomic medicine.

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Leo Coleman is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Hunter College. His research focuses on energy politics, law, and interactions between people, material things, and political ideals in contexts of change, particularly examining electrification and urban life in twentieth-century India, and contemporary environmental politics in Scotland.  He is the editor of Food: Ethnographic Encounters (Berg, 2011), the author of several articles on urbanism and infrastructure, a contributor to the Companion to the Anthropology of India, the Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Solitude, and the volume Regimes of Ignorance (Berghahn Books), and is completing a book about colonial and contemporary electrification in Delhi.

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Thomas Cousins is a social anthropologist with particular interests in health, labour, kinship, and science studies. He completed a PhD at Johns Hopkins University in 2012 and now teaches in the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology at Stellenbosch University. His doctoral dissertation was an ethnography of life around the timber plantations of northern KwaZulu-Natal, focusing on the logic and effects of a nutrition intervention for plantation workers in the context of a crisis of social reproduction and bodily capacity. He continues to conduct fieldwork on the intersections of nutrition and sanitation, the body, politics, and public health. Along with Lindsey Reynolds, Thomas developed Transcriptions – a forum on HIV/AIDS and global health, on Somatosphere.

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Lukas Engelmann is a post-doc research associate at CRASSH, University of Cambridge, following the visual history of the Third Plague Pandemic in North and South America. He concluded his studies in History and Gender-Studies in Berlin in 2009 and received his PhD in History at the Humboldt University of Berlin in 2013. The dissertation engages with the visual history of AIDS/HIV, contributing to a broader perspective on visualizations in medial history and intervening with an interdisciplinary research design into the emerging field of the historiography of AIDS. His publications are mostly connected to the broad field of medical humanities and often framed by the relationship of modern history to anthropology.

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Des Fitzgerald is a Lecturer in Sociology at Cardiff University. Des is a sociologist of science and medicine, with a particular interest in the history and present of the neurosciences. He is especially interested in neuroscientific and psychiatric research as it gets entangled in social and cultural life – a kind of hybridity and ambiguity that, for me, marks out important new conceptual and empirical terrain for sociology. To try to get at this hybridity, he is currently pursuing a wide programme of research that limns the intersections of the social, human, and biological sciences, and have active research interests in mental health and urban life; in the autism spectrum, as it has been conjured by the neurosciences; in the history and present of ‘mind-wandering’; and in experimental, interdisciplinary approaches to social science. He is the co-author (with Felicity Callard) of Rethinking Interdisciplinarity across the Social Sciences and Neurosciences (Palgrave 2015).

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Michele Friedner is Assistant Professor in the Department of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences at Stony Brook University. Her research explores deaf and disabled peoples’ social, moral, and economic practices in post-liberalization urban areas of India. She is particularly interested in how deaf people imagine and work towards deaf futures and how disabled people navigate public space and use universalist discourses of accessibility. She is also interested in how disability might be represented, experienced, and perceived as a source of different kinds of social, moral, political, and economic value. She is the author of Valuing Deaf Worlds in Urban India (Rutgers University Press, 2015) and has also published articles in Antipode, Medical Anthropology Quarterly, and Anthropology and Education Quarterly.

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Nev Jones is a postdoctoral fellow in psychiatric anthropology at Stanford University. Her disciplinary background spans continental philosophy and community psychology and her research centers on the phenomenology and sociocultural determinants of psychosis.

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Frédéric Keck is a researcher at the Laboratoire d’anthropologie sociale (CNRS) in Paris. He has published works on the history of philosophy and social anthropology in France (Comte, Lévy-Bruhl, Lévi-Strauss) and translated Paul Rabinow’s French DNA into French. He now works on the management of animal diseases transmitted to humans, or zoonoses (Un monde grippé, Flammarion, 2010, Des hommes malades des animaux, L’Herne, 2012)

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Janina Kehr studied Anthropology and Political Sciences at the University of Göttingen and the University of California Santa Cruz. She received her PhD in Anthropology from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales Paris and the Humboldt University of Berlin in 2012. Since 2011, she has worked as researcher at the Institute for the History of Medicine in Zurich. Currently she is preparing a book manuscript entitled “Global Health at Home”, which looks at the governance of tuberculosis in two Western European countries, France and Germany, in the 21st century. Her new research project concerns medical belonging, health citizenship and biopolitical nostalgia in austerity Europe. She writes about ongoing research activities – more or less regularly – on her blog “Medical Modernities.”

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Ann Kelly is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) of Anthropology in the Department of Sociology and Philosophy at the University of Exeter. Her work centers on the pragmatic dimensions of public health research in Africa, with special attention to the built-environments, material artefacts and practical labours of experimentation in former British colonies.

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Hanna Kienzler is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in the Department of Social Science, Health and Medicine at King’s College London and have a long-standing academic interest in the field of global health, in connection with organised violence, ethnic conflict, and complex emergencies, and their mental health outcomes. Within this broad field of inquiry, she is particularly interested in the social determinants of health and illness, gender based violence, trauma, PTSD, local idioms of distress, resilience, and local forms of healing as well as in the growing field of human rights and humanitarian and clinical interventions. She conducts research in Kosovo, Palestine, and Nepal.

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Junko Kitanaka teaches anthropology at Keio University in Tokyo. She is the author of Depression in Japan: Psychiatric Cures for a Society in Distress (Princeton UP, 2012), which received the American Anthropological Association’s Francis Hsu Prize for Best Book in East Asian Anthropology in 2013.

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Christine Labuski is an assistant professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at Virginia Tech, where she co-directs the Gender, Bodies & Technology conference and initiative. A former nurse practitioner, she is interested in the bodily accumulation of experience, with a particular focus on sex and gender as dynamic and evolving categories. Her ethnography It Hurts Down There: The Bodily Imaginaries of Female Genital Pain (forthcoming from SUNY Press), draws on fieldwork with vulvar pain patients to call for new feminist analyses of contemporary genital discourse and practice. Her current research examines female bodily comportment and gendered asymmetries in and around the Bakken oil fields in northwestern North Dakota.

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Nadine Levin is a Research Fellow at the University of Exeter, where she is exploring how Open Access and Open Data policies affect the practice of post-genomic research. She completed her DPhil in 2013 in Anthropology at Oxford University, with a dissertation that explored how researchers in the field of metabolomics create, analyze, and use data to make claims about metabolism and health. Her current research explores how metabolism is being configured in relation to big data, and what consequences this has for biomedicine.

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Javier Lezaun is James Martin Lecturer in Science and Technology Governance and Deputy Director at the Institute for Science, Innovation and Society in the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography at the University of Oxford. For the past three years he has been directing the program BioProperty, which explores the practices of appropriation and exchange of biomedical research communities. He holds a PhD in Science and Technology Studies from Cornell University.

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Stephanie Lloyd is a medical anthropologist in the Department of Anthropology at Laval University who explores the intersections of scientific and medical technologies and identity formation, with a particular interest in genetics and psychiatric knowledge and practices. Her current ethnography examines the production of epigenetic theories of suicide risk, focusing on efforts to construct distinctive biological profiles of “suicide completers”, shifting temporalities of risk, and the reimagination of the porous nature of human bodies and their interactions with the environment. Her fieldwork is based in Canada and France. Stephanie edits the Foreign Correspondents series for Somatosphere.

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Tomas Matza is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh. His work has appeared in Cultural Anthropology, American Ethnologist, Critical Inquiry, and is forthcoming in Social Text. Along with Harris Solomon, Tomas developed and curated Commonplaces.

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Neely Myers (Ph.D., Comparative Human Development, University of Chicago, 2009) is a sociocultural anthropologist specializing in medical and psychiatric anthropology in the United States, and — preliminarily -Tanzania. Her interests lie at the intersections of anthropology and psychiatry, with a particular focus on how people come to understand, experience, treat, and recover from serious emotional distress and extreme states (often called “madness”) that can cause psychiatric disability. The complex relationships between cultural context, care, and recovery has implications for people living with madness and their caregivers, as well as global mental health initiatives, the anthropology of care, and the anthropology of health/healing/becoming.

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Michael J. Oldani, PhD, MS, is currently Associate Professor in the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Administration in the School of Pharmacy at Concordia University Wisconsin. He also is campus-wide Coordinator of Interprofessional Education, a program designed to create team-based learning and training opportunities for students in nursing, pharmacy, occupational therapy, physical therapy, the physician assistant program, and social work. His work has been concerned with three overlapping areas: mental illness, psychiatric prescribing, and pharmaceutical sales and marketing. His recent ethnographic project was included in a special volume of Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry; his current project involves a pilot mental health court in Wisconsin. Michael is working on a book-length ethnographic manuscript encompassing the blockbuster era of pharmaceutical prescribing in both Canada and the U.S.

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Sadeq Rahimi, MSc, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Medical Anthropology, and Associate Faculty in the Department of Psychiatry, University of Saskatchewan. Born in Iran, he moved to Canada in 1989 as a political refugee. He received his Ph.D. in Cultural Psychiatry at McGill University and training in Child Psychoanalysis in Montreal, followed by a 4 year Postdoctoral Fellow appointment in Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, a 2 year Research Fellow appointment at the Harvard Center for Middle Eastern Studies, and clinical training in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy at the Boston Institute for Psychotherapy. Dr. Rahimi’s main research focus on culture, subjectivity and mental illnesses has led to two main lines of research, on political subjectivity and on policy development. His current research includes a project on shifting political subjectivity in post-revolutionary Iran, a study of the dynamics and challenges of integration for the Muslim community in Canada, and an ongoing research project on needs assessment and policy recommendations for development of culturally competent mental health services in Saskatchewan, Canada.

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Lindsey Reynolds is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology at Stellenbosch University. She is an interdisciplinary researcher, working at the boundaries of anthropology and public health. Drawing on insights from a decade of work on global health, humanitarian intervention, and the lives of young people and families in rural South Africa, her research interrogates the tensions inherent in processes of social reproduction and social change in the context of global health research and intervention in contemporary South Africa. Her long-term research interests are centered on investigating the social and ethical processes involved in the production of knowledge and implementation of programs and policies in global health. Lindsey completed a joint doctoral degree in 2012 in anthropology and public health at the Johns Hopkins University. Along with Thomas Cousins, Lindsey developed Transcriptions – a forum on HIV/AIDS and global health, on Somatosphere.

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Andrés Romero is a PhD candidate in anthropology at Wayne State University and he holds a position as an external investigator at the Institute of Colombian Anthropology and History (ICANH). His research interests include the anthropology of the senses, affect, memory, and the experience of place of in relation to violence and displacement in Bogotá, Colombia.

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Natasha Dow Schüll is an Associate Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at NYU.  Her first book, Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas (Princeton University Press 2012), draws on extended research among compulsive gamblers and the designers of the slot machines they play to explore the relationship between technology design and the experience of addiction. Her next book, Keeping Track: Sensor Technology, Self-Regulation, and the Data-Driven Life (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, forthcoming 2017), concerns the rise of digital self-tracking technologies and the new modes of introspection and self-governance they engender.

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Aaron Seaman is a PhD candidate in the Department of Comparative Human Development at the University of Chicago. His dissertation research focuses on the production, cultivation and enactment of caregiving expertise among people with dementia, their family caregivers, and the biomedical community with whom they interact. Aaron is the In the Journals Editor for Somatosphere.

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Nick Shapiro is a postdoctoral researcher with the Citizen Sense Lab of Goldsmiths’ Sociology Department. His work revolves around the politics, poetics and logics of uneventful human harm in the United States as understood through case studies of chronic chemical exposure. He tracks the quasi-legal resale of 150,000 chemically contaminated emergency housing units (FEMA trailers) across the US and collaborates with his Citizen Sense colleagues on a pollution sensing participatory design project in an area of intensive natural gas extraction in Pennsylvania.

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Harris Solomon is an anthropologist in the Department of Cultural Anthropology and the Duke Global Health Institute at Duke University. His research examines the intersections between bodies and environments in urban India. Along with Tomas Matza, Harris developed and curated Commonplaces.

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Matthew Wolf-Meyer is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Binghamptom University. His work focuses on medicine, science and media in the United States to make sense of major modern-era shifts in the expert practices of science and medicine and popular representations of health. His book The Slumbering Masses: Sleep, Medicine and Modern American Life was the first book-length social scientific study of sleep in the United States. It offers insights into the complex lived realities of disorderly sleepers, the long history of sleep science, and the global impacts of the exportation of American sleep. He is currently finishing a book manuscript on the alternative histories of American neuroscience, seen through the lens of neurological disorders, tentatively titled The Other Century of the Brain: Disability, Neuroscience and the Politics of American Care. He is in the beginning stages of a project entitled The Colony Within on the history and contemporary medicalization of digestion and excretion in the U.S.

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Janelle S. Taylor is Professor and Chair of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Washington, and author of The Public Life of the Fetal Sonogram: Technology, Consumption, and the Politics of Reproduction (Rutgers University Press, 2008) as well as articles about a variety of topics including cultural competency, end-of-life decision-making, standardized patient performances, and dementia.

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Livia Velpry is a medical sociologist in the Department of Sociology in the University of Paris VIII. She is author of Le quotidien de la psychiatrie. Sociologie de la maladie mentale (Armand Colin, 2008).

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Ian Whitmarsh is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology, History, and Social Medicine at the University of California San Francisco. His research focuses on biomedical links made between desire and suffering and the ethics and aesthetics of being healthy. His anthropological interests are in ties between anthropology and psychoanalysis; formations of ethnicity; resonances between “religious” and “secular” techniques; and Claude Levi-Strauss. His recent articles have drawn on Lacan to write about the idea of American race science as a “cathartic science”; Gregory Bateson to explore compliance techniques as a “medical schismogenics”; and Claude Levi-Strauss to explore the “environment” as a supplementarity in gene-environment research. He is Director of the UCSF side of the joint-UC Berkeley/UC San Francisco PhD. Program in Medical Anthropology.

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Emily Yates-Doerr is a postdoctoral fellow at the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research. She is carrying out an ethnographic project on the formation of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals that documents how global health, agricultural, and economic interests converge over concerns for hunger, climate change, food price, and chronic illness. Her previous research examined the emergence of obesity as a diagnostic category in Guatemala.

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Kalman Applbaum teaches medical anthropology and global studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. His research has concerned the marketing, prescribing and use of psychiatric medicines in the US and Japan.

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Amy Cooper is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Muhlenberg College. Her research interests include medicine, the body, mental health and psychiatry, homelessness, and aging; the anthropological study of citizenship and political activism; and Latin American and Caribbean studies. Her research focuses on the relationships between political ideologies, public health systems, and local formulations of bodies, medicine, and subjectivity. She has conducted ethnographic research on these topics in urban Venezuela, Cuba, and the United States. Amy received her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago’s Department of Comparative Human Development in 2012.

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Paul Wenzel Geissler teaches social anthropology at the Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Oslo, and the London School of Hygiene. His research explores the practice of scientific research and collaboration in Africa, combining ethnography and history. His most recent books are the monograph The Land is Dying (2010; with Ruth Prince), and Evidence, Ethos and Experiment: the anthropology and history of medical research in Africa (2011; edited with Sassy Molyneux).

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Erin Koch is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Kentucky. Her research and teaching interests include anthropological studies of medicine, science and technology; infectious disease; humanitarianism; postsocialism; and anthropological theories and methods. She is the author of Free Market Tuberculosis: Managing Epidemics in post-Soviet Georgia (Vaderbilt 2013) which examins the effects of Soviet collapse on tuberculosis and responses to tuberculosis in Georgia, and what counts as expert knowledge in the face of WHO-directed biomedical standardization. Her current research in Georgia investigates health effects of displacement and humanitarian interventions. She is interested in how health care, policy and aid organizations produce moral claims to organize institutions, social spaces, and diagnoses as they bring relief—and distress—to displaced populations. Erin’s subsequent project will examine Georgian scientific innovation in the use of bacteriophage treatments to combat bacterial infections in humans. This research will investigate how infectious diseases and responses to them are produced through dynamic human-microbe relationships in which moral claims about infected populations, national health care systems, global health policies, and the commodification and regulation of living entities (viruses) as antibacterial agents are contested and negotiated.

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Melanie Boeckmann is a Public Health researcher based at the Institute for General Practice, Medical Faculty of the Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf in Germany. Her dissertation focused on critical assessments of climate change adaptation evaluation for human health, with specific attention to gender and concepts of social and environmental justice. Melanie is now researching trial process evaluation methodology in the context of tobacco use among tuberculosis (TB) patients in South East Asia. She continues to be interested in disasters & health, reproductive, maternal and child health, and critical evaluation research.

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Livia Garofalo is a PhD/MPH student in cultural and medical anthropology at Northwestern University. Her research interests revolve around the experience of Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) and the formation of subjectivity after trauma and injury. More specifically, she is interested in examining the nexus between the brain, personhood, care, and the discursive construction of the “silent epidemic” of TBI, as well as understanding how different “post-traumatic” and injured states are constructed by experts and patients alike. While she has conducted research on the experience of TBI patients in Chicago, she is planning on conducting exploratory fieldwork in Mexico City and Buenos Aires in TBI clinics.

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Michelle Pentecost is a DPhil candidate in Anthropology at the University of Oxford (Green Templeton College), and an affiliate of ‘The First Thousand Days’ research group at the University of Cape Town. She is currently conducting fieldwork for her doctoral thesis, titled “The First Thousand Days: The Political Ecology of Perinatal Nutrition in Khayelitsha, South Africa.” Her work sits at the intersections of critical medical anthropology, science and technology studies, and postcolonial theory within anthropology’s growing corpus of critical studies of global health. Michelle is a practicing clinician with special interests in perinatology and internal medicine. She completed her medical training at the University of Cape Town before obtaining an MSc in Medical Anthropology at the University of Oxford. On completion of her doctorate, she aims to practice at the intersections of medicine, public health, anthropology, and medical education.

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Christine Sargent is a PhD candidate in sociocultural anthropology at the University of Michigan. She is interested in cross-cultural constructions of disability and how global discourses of disability rights interact with local norms surrounding difference, impairment, and vulnerability. Her dissertation explores the moral uncertainties and new technologies of selfhood, kinship, and care generated by emerging vocabularies of Down Syndrome and intellectual disability in Amman, Jordan.

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Sara Bergstresser is a medical and cultural anthropologist, and her research addresses the intersection of health and society, including mental health policy and stigma, global bioethics, disability studies, and religion and health. She holds a PhD in Anthropology from Brown University and an MPH from Harvard University.

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Maria Cecilia Dedios is a PhD student in Social and Cultural Psychology at the LSE. She holds an M.A. in the Social Sciences with concentration in Comparative Human Development from the University of Chicago. Her doctoral work focuses on the intersubjective, social, and cultural processes fostering resilience among vulnerable youth in Colombia and the United Kingdom. Maria Cecilia has conducted research on moral development and identity formation among indigenous children in Perú, Afro-descendants and internally displaced young adults in Colombia, and undocumented young adults in the U.S.

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Emily Goldsher-Diamond is an MA student in the Media, Culture & Communication department at New York University. Her research interests include medical anthropology and science studies as they relate to the issues of prosthetics, enhancement technology and organ transfer. She is an Associate Editor at literary culture site Vol. 1 Brooklyn. Emily plans to pursue her PhD in Medical Anthropology, STS or a related interdisciplinary field.

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Jane Roberts holds an MSc in medical anthropology from University College London and is currently a PhD candidate in social psychology at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Her research is concerned with how knowledge about contested and controversial diagnoses in children’s mental health is constituted, communicated and circulated within and between different groups in contrasting cultural contexts, using as a case study the diagnosis of paediatric bipolar disorder (as represented by Pharma, psychiatrists and parents) in the US as compared to England.

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Silvia Rossi is a PhD student in Italian Literature at the University of Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense. Her PhD project focuses on the connection between writing and sickness in autobiographies of people suffering from cancer. She works for the website cancercontribution.fr

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Hannah Gibson holds her BA (Hons) in Social Anthropology and Spanish from Massey University, New Zealand, and is now working at Victoria University where she is preparing to complete her Masters in 2016, with a focus on medical anthropology and the anthropology of reproduction, specifically gestational surrogacy in a New Zealand context. Previous research includes fieldwork at an equine assisted psychotherapy organisation and research on the anthropological engagement with the Anthropocene and human-animal relationships.

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Ekaterina Anderson is a PhD student in the Department of Anthropology at Boston University. She plans to conduct research on how the cultural competence movement and mental health care reform in Israel jointly affect everyday experiences, practices, and decisions in clinical settings.

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Maria Cecilia Dedios is a PhD student in Social and Cultural Psychology at the LSE. She holds an M.A. in the Social Sciences with concentration in Comparative Human Development from the University of Chicago. Her doctoral work focuses on the intersubjective, social, and cultural processes fostering resilience among vulnerable youth in Colombia and the United Kingdom. Maria Cecilia has conducted research on moral development and identity formation among indigenous children in Perú, Afro-descendants and internally displaced young adults in Colombia, and undocumented young adults in the U.S.

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Jason Alley brings overlapping interests in anthropology, film and cultural studies to his research and writing. He is currently a Lecturer in the Department of Film and Digital Media at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

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Sultana Banulescu is a PhD candidate in History at the City University of New York Graduate Center. She holds an MA degree in History of Science from Princeton University, an MS degree in Physiology and Biophysics from the University of Iowa, an MD degree from Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy in Bucharest, Romania, and a BS degree in Biochemistry from the University of Bucharest. Sultana’s dissertation explores the political, religious, and artistic dynamics of Italian psychoanalysis between 1908 and 1948. Her research interests include modern European history, cultural and intellectual history, history of science and medicine, and medical humanities.

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Lara Braff received her PhD from the University of Chicago’s Department of Comparative Human Development in 2010. She is now a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for US-Mexican Studies at UCSD. Her ethnographic research examines the cultural implications and lived experiences of globalized biosciences – namely, assisted reproductive technologies and genetic sciences – in Mexico. Her broader research interests include the anthropologies of medicine/health, science/technology, gender/kinship, personhood, and the body.

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Basak Can is a graduate student in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania. Her dissertation tracked the relationship between political violence and its scientific bureaucratic inscriptions in Turkey.

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Matthew Dalstrom is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Rockford College. In 2010 he received his PhD in anthropology from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. His research and teaching interests include medical anthropology, applied anthropology, medical tourism, and health disparities. Currently, he is working on two projects. Along the US/Mexico border he is researching American retirees who travel to Mexico for health care and the impact that it has on their health. In addition, he is working on a collaborative project with the Winnebago County Health Department to improve access and usage of prenatal health care in Rockford, IL.

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Talia Dan-Cohen is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis. Her work concerns the intersection of engineering and biology in the field of synthetic biology. Her interests include epistemology and the anthropology of knowledge, technical expertise, rationalities and aesthetics, and the explorations — empirical and theoretical — of problems in the philosophy of science.

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Deanna Day is a writer, editor, and historian of medicine and technology. Her research focuses on the history of consumer technologies and the ways they enable users to understand their bodies and identities. She received her PhD in history and sociology of science at the University of Pennsylvania in 2014, where she wrote her dissertation on the history of the thermometer and women’s domestic medical labor. She is currently a John C. Haas Postdoctoral Fellow at the Chemical Heritage Foundation.

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Cassandra Hartblay (PhD UNC-Chapel Hill) is a postdoctoral fellow for the University of California Collaboratory for Ethnographic Design (CoLED), housed in the Department of Communication at the University of California San Diego. Her research investigates disability and globalization with a regional focus on the former Soviet Union.

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Kane Race is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Gender & Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney. In much of his research, he has tracked the ways in which antiretroviral therapies have been redefining the terms of gay sexual and social life in Australia and comparable western contexts. He is the author of Pleasure Consuming Medicine: the queer politics of drugs (Duke UP, 2009) which critically examines how discourses of drug use (from medications to illicit drugs) have become moralized in neoliberal contexts, and develops a frame of ‘counterpublic health’ to address this process. He is currently engaged in research on how people come to confront themselves as subjects of illicit sexuality and risk (or not), a question whose significance is newly materializing in the context of HIV biomedical prevention initiatives.

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Klaartje Klaver is a PhD student at Tilburg University studying attentiveness and the ethics of care.

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Elizabeth Lewis is a doctoral student at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research focuses on shifting conceptions of disability, particularly deafblindness and multiple disabilities. She is particularly interested in the intersections of medical anthropology, affect, and disability studies, and her current research probes how dynamic realities of disability unfold in everyday life. She has conducted ethnographic research in Guatemala and Nicaragua, as well as in the U.S.

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Francis Mckay is a Joint PhD Candidate in Anthropology and the Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science at the University of Chicago. His focus is on the science and politics of well-being in the United States, and how the concept of well-being is reconfiguring the notion of biopower in the twenty-first century. His ethnographic research focuses specifically on mindfulness practices in the U.S. and the UK, and situates that more broadly withing other “happiness sciences” that have emerged over the past decades: contemplative studies, positive and hedonic psychology, and the economics of happiness. Other interests include science and religion, continental philosophy of science, psychological and medical anthropology, and STS.

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Elle Nurmi finished her Masters degree in Slavic Linguistics at the University of Chicago in 2013 and now works as an analyst. Her major research interests include mental illness and conceptions of violence in the internet age, as well as gender politics in modern Eastern Europe.

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Branwyn Poleykett is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge. Her PhD project “Intimacy, Technoscience and the City: regulating “prostitution” in Dakar, 1946-2010 traced the history of the sanitary regulation of prostitution across the twentieth century as it moved into the clinical spaces and worlds of practice of experimental virologists and urban development professionals.

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Georgia Richardson-Melody completed a master’s degree in the Anthropology department at Wayne State University, with a concentration in Medical Anthropology.

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Jeffrey G. Snodgrass, Professor of Anthropology at Colorado State University, has published widely on caste, performance, and religion in India. He is currently working on two projects. First, he is interested to understand how culture-specific absorptive experiences, achievement motivations, and social interactions contribute to virtual worlds’ therapeutic and addictive dimensions. This research has begun with primarily U.S. gamers with plans to extend the project to France and India. Second, in NSF-funded research, he is working to understand how loss of access to forest spaces and resources – for example, through deforestation and displacement from a newly established wildlife preserve in central India – impact indigenous peoples’ health and systems of healing. He hopes empirical results from these and other projects will help him fuse insights from cultural psychiatry and neuroscience into more synthetic “biopsychocultural” accounts of mental health resilience.

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Katie Vizenor is a PhD candidate in the Anthropology department at the University at Buffalo. Her dissertation research examines disability community formation and maintenance in virtual worlds. She holds a Master’s in Library and Information Science from the University of Maryland-College Park. As an Informationist and Researcher at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, she advised public health graduate students and faculty on effective uses of information technology to improve their evidence-based practices. She also researched the use of peer reviewed literature by public health workers and proposed strategies to improve access, education and training as part of an National Institutes of Health (NIH) funded project. From 2002-2004, she was a Research Assistant at the Institute for Formal Ontology and Medical Information Science (IFOMIS) in Leipzig, Germany.

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Keahnan Washington is a PhD candidate in the Department of Anthropology at Yale University. Keahnan has a background in public health as well as biochemistry and molecular biology, and his primary interest is the alleviation of health disparities and health inequality.

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Zhiying Ma is a PhD candidate in the Departments of Anthropology and Comparative Human Development at the University of Chicago. Her dissertation examines the politics and ethics of care surrounding psychiatry and mental health law reform in contemporary China.

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