EDUCATION
Ruth L. Kirschstein NRSA T32 Postdoctoral Fellow, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
Ph.D., Medical Anthropology, Case Western Reserve University, 2018
M.S.W., Health & Community Practice, Washington University St. Louis, 2007
B.S., Psychology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2002
RESEARCH INTERESTS
- Adolescent Health
- Anthropology of Illegal Drug Use & Addiction
- Biopolitical Citizenship
- Death
- Identity & Subjectivity
- Morality
- Regions of Interest: United States
DISSERTATION
“Subjectivity and Moral Personhood: An Ethnography of Addiction Treatment in the U.S.” (2018) [Abstract]
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
“They medicated me out”: Social Flesh and Embodied Citizenship in Addiction Treatment. Contemporary Drug Problems (2018)
RECENT PRESENTATIONS
- “Overdose and Its Afterlife: New Forms of Living and Dying in the U.S. Opioid Crisis.” American Anthropological Association Meeting, San Jose, CA. (2018)
- “Embodied (Dis)Connection: Using Ethnography to Examine the Paradoxes of Touch in Addiction Treatment.” Society for Qualitative Inquiry in Psychology 5th Annual Conference, Pittsburgh, PA. (2018)
- “Technoference in Recovery: Social Inclusion and Stigma in Online Worlds.” Society for Applied Anthropology Meeting, Philadelphia, PA. (2018)