Benjamin Hegarty

Benjamin Hegarty is an anthropologist trained at the Australian National University whose ethnographic research investigates the intersection of epidemics and social life. He conducts fieldwork in Indonesia (2014-) and Papua New Guinea (2023-). His first book, 'The Made-Up State' (Cornell University Press, 2022) was awarded the Anne Bolin and Gilbert Herdt Prize by the American Anthropological Association. In 2023 he was appointed as a full-time social and behavioural researcher in the Asia and Pacific Health Program at the Kirby Institute for Infection and Immunity in Society, UNSW Sydney. In 2024-25, he was awarded a French Institutes for Advanced Studies (FIAS) Fellowship at the Paris Institute for Advanced Study. He has held visiting fellowships at the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography at the University of Oxford, the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge, and the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine. He is a member of the editorial boards of American Ethnologist, Medicine Anthropology Theory, BKI - Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia, and History of Anthropology Review.

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