Sonya Petrakovitz
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EDUCATION
- Ph.D. Candidate, Medical Anthropology, Case Western Reserve University
- M.A., Bioethics and Medical Humanities, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, 2019
- M.A., Medical Anthropology, Case Western Reserve University, 2017
- B.S., Photojournalism, Central Michigan University, 2013
- B.A., Classical History, Kalamazoo College, 2010
RESEARCH INTERESTS
- Rapa Nui (Easter Island), Chile, Polynesia
On Rapa Nui, I observed how health, healing, and ancestral ethics towards responsibilities of care, can be modes of resistance, advocacy, and activism.
- Medicine-as-resistance through Indigenous approaches to the intersections among medicine
- Health
- Heritage protection
- Human rights
- Community activism
- Cultural sustainability
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
- 2018: Instructor of Introduction to Human Diversity, Cleveland State University
- 2016-Present: Teaching Assistant, Case Western Reserve University
GRANTS RECEIVED
- 2020: SMA COVID-19 Emergency Grant, Society for Medical Anthropology
- 2018: The Social Justice Institute Graduate Research Fellowship, Social Justice Institute, Case Western Reserve University
- 2017: Medical Humanities and Social Medicine Research Grant, Department of Bioethics, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
- 2017: The Eva L. Pancoast Memorial Fellowship, School of Graduate Studies, Case Western Reserve University
SPECIAL SKILLS
- Spanish
- Basic Rapa Nui
PUBLICATIONS
- 2021 American Anthropological Association Photo Contest Winner – photo of fieldwork research to be included in the 2022 AAA Calendar
- Hamler, T. C., Miller, V. J., & Petrakovitz, S. (2018). Chronic Kidney Disease and Older African American Adults: How Embodiment Influences Self-Management. Geriatrics, 3(3), 52. [Journal Article]
In Progress
- Petrakovitz, S. (2022). Informe de investigación comunitaria [Community research report]. Rapa Nui Journal.
- Petrakovitz. S. & Hamler, T.C. (2022). Social Determinants of Noncompliance: Towards New Differentiations of Patient Noncompliance Labels. Intended for: “Sounding Board” in the New England Journal of Medicine.
