Fellows
2022
Danielle MacVicar, UC Berkeley
Care and Crisis: Imaginations of the Unincorporated in Puerto Rico
Begüm Ergun, Boston University
Ambiguous Politics of Care: Syrians’ Uncertain Life in Turkey
Mir Fatimah Kanth, UC San Diego
Charm Offensive: Counterinsurgencey, Youth and Everyday Life in Kashmir
Paras Arora, Stanford University
A Home Away from Home: Familial & Institutional Care for Autistic Adults in India
2021
2020
Ziqi Xie, Boston University
Women’s Moral Reasoning and Moral Acts in the Face of China’s Child Policy Shift
Breanne Casper, University of South Florida
Cues, Cognition, and Culture: Examining Contexts of Substance Use Cessation in Costa Rica
David Boze, University of Chicago
Secular and Religious Conceptions of the Child in Sudan
Shuting Li, New York University
Is Technology a Challenge or Solution to Elder Care in China?
Kim Youjoung, John Hopkins University
COVID-19 Government Measures and Everyday Life of People on Jeju Island, South Korea
Talia Katz, John Hopkins University
Healing in the As-If:” Political Subjectivity and the Aesthetics of Pain in Israeli Psychodrama
2019
Florin Cristea, Free University of Berlin
Affective Minds: “Madness”, Morality, and Emotions in Rural Bli
Sanaullah Khan, John Hopkins University
Militarizing the Psyche: Kinship, Mental illness and the State in Pakistan
Julio Villa-Palomino, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Deinstitutionalization Unfolding: The Transition to Community Mental Health in Lima, Peru.
Ipsita Dey, Princeton University
Indo-Fijian Eco-Religious Claims to Political Belonging in Fiji
2018
Zoe Berman, University of Chicago
On the “Post-Genocide Generation”: Intergenerational memories and Psychosomatic Distress in Contemporary Rwanda
Mary Cook, University of Chicago
Denying Refuge: Psychocultural Perspectives on Anti-immigration Activism in Belfast
Raffaella Seymour, University of Chicago
Being Gay and Pentecostal: Conflicted Moral Selfhood in Zimbabwe
Mengqing Shang, Boston University
Where the East Meets the West: The interaction of Buddhism and Western Psychotherapeutics in China’s Psycho-Boom”
2017
Reem Mehdoui, UCLA
Tunisian Youth, Revolution, and Articulation of Morality in Times of Crisis
Alexia Arani, UCSD
Queering Care: Caring Positivities: Caring Subjectivities Among Queer and Trans People of Color in a Post-Obama United States
Sara Rendell, University of Pennsylvania
Finding Footing on Shifting Terrain: Ethnography of Migrant Cartographies
Emily Wilson, University of Chicago
Intimacy for Hire: Sensorial Care in the American Gig Economy
Lauren Nippoldt, UCSD
Navigating Moral Experiences with Care: Discussing Motivation and Wellbeing among Care Workers in Chandigarh, India
Paula Martin, University of Chicago
Our Bodies Are Not Our Selves: Situating the Discourse of Gender Identity in the US
2016
Kathy Trang, Emory
Social suffering and idioms of distress among Vietnamese male sex workers
Pablo Delaporte, Stanford
A comparative critical phenomenology of drug addiction among Mestizos in the Huallanga Valley, Peru
Suicide Nation?: Suicide meanings, resilience and coping scripts in Japan
Suicide Nation?: Suicide meanings, resilience and coping scripts in Japan
Carolyn Merritt, UCLA
Discourses of Individual and Social Well-Being in Swedish Folk High Schools
Eva Melstrom, UCLA
An exploration of the lived experiences of diverse psychosocial economies of mental health care in Ethiopia
Mirjam Holleman, University of Alabama
Constructing Cultural Models of Disability and Citizenship in Katowice, Poland
2015
Yael Assor, UCLA
Negotiating moral expectations
Anisha Chadha, NYU
Pharmaceutically shaped millennials: Understanding stimulant experiences and mental health subjectivities
Lauren Cubellis, Washington Univ St. Louis
Tolerating uncertainty: Dialogic practice and the negotiation of psychosis in ACT Berlin
Alexis Howard, University of Chicago
Growing old in precarity: Aging andpoverty in Chile
Ellen Kozelka, UCSD
(Not so) fluid borders, (not so) fluid identities: Time, space and identity in Tijuana drug rehabilitation
Seamus Power, University of Chicago
You reap what you sow: Ethnography of the Irish Water Rebellion
Beth Semel, MIT
Enactments of Efficacy: A multi-sited ethnographic study of CBT
2014
Tyler Zoanni, NYU
American Evangelical Ministries and Disability Subjectivities in Uganda
Noha Roushdy, Boston University
Being Young and Moral: The Lived Predicament of Youth in Post-Mubarak Egypt
Jessica McCauley, Washington State University
Healing and Well-being among Malian Women
Emily Lucitt, UCLA
Narratives of Haunting in Postcolonial Ireland
Ting Hui Lau, Cornell
“Lost Persons”: Spirits, Migration and Mental Illness in Southwest China
Devin Flaherty, UCLA
Imagination in Caregiving: Imaginal Experiences in Terminal Care Contexts in US Virgin Islands
Danielle Carr, University of Minnesota
Cyborg Trauma: Understanding Personhood and Citizenship through Deep Brain Stimulation
2013
David A. Ansari, University of Chicago
Cultural Expertise & Triage: Context, Mediation, and Treatment Management in Psychiatric Services in Paris
Jessica M Cooper, Princeton University
The Therapeutics of Criminal Adjudication: An Ethnographic Analysis of the San Francisco Behavioral Health Court
Laura A. Horton, University of Chicago
Language Emergence and Acquisition at Home & School: Multimodal Communication in a Guatemalan Highland Community
Afshan A. Kamrudin, Southern Methodist University
Stigmatized Identities and Psychological Well-Being: Queer and Muslim in South Africa and the U.S.
Kelsey L. Robbins, University of Chicago
What is Recovery?: Understanding and Treating the Mental Distress of Adult Survivors of Childhood Clerical Sexual Abuse in Ireland
2012
Michael Chladek, University of Chicago
Buddhist Monkhood and the Construction of Masculinity in Northern Thailand
Lindsey Conklin, University of Chicago
Navigating the “Marriage Crisis”: Youth, “Waithood,” and Personal Honor in Amman
Nofit Itzhak, UCSD
Globalizing Compassion: The Ethic of Love and Altruistic Social Action in a Transnational Catholic Charismatic Community
Erin Moore, University of Chicago
Microfinanced Girls: Adolescence, Subjectivity, and Development Interventions in Uganda
Kristi M. Ninnemann, Case Western Reserve University
Psychiatric Pharmacogenomics in the United States: Effects and Affects
Caissa Revilla-Minaya, Vanderbilt University
The Self and Environmental Perceptions of a Matsigenka Community in Manu National Park, Peru
Jenny Walton-Wetzel, UCLA
Risking Delight: Experience, Emotion, and Contemporary Clowns
Ming Xue, UCLA
A cross-cultural study on human friendship
2011
Elise Berman, University of Chicago
How Do I Say No? Children, Deception, and Avoiding Giving in the Marshall Islands
Andrea Chiovenda, Boston University
The Construction of Masculinity and Gender Identity in Afghan Pashtun Men
Meghan Halley, Case Western Reserve University
Unyago and Jando: The Role of Adolescent Initiation Rituals in Shaping Youth Sexuality In Rural Southern Tanzania
Christian Laheij, London School of Economics and Political Science
“Resolve This Problem Our Way”: Islamic Reformism, Public Sphere and Dispute Management in Northern Mozambique
Sara Lewis, Columbia University
From Social Suffering to Social Resilience: Buddhism and Coping in the Tibetan Exile Community
Zhiying Ma, University of Chicago
Psychiatric Subjectivity and Cultural Resistance: Experience and Explanations of Schizophrenia in Contemporary China
Hillary Melchiors, Case Western Reserve University
Between Cultures: Turkish-German Girls in Berlin
Victoria Ramenzoni, University of Georgia
Subjective Estimations, Probabilities, and Subsistence Among Vezo of Madagascar
Amy Rezac, Case Western Reserve University
Response to Psychological Distress During Displacement
Sarah Rubin, Case Western Reserve University
Motherhood and Emotional Distress in a South African Township: an Ethnographic Investigation of Postnatal Depression in Sociocultural Context
Katrin Tovote, University of Hawaii
Daily Routines and Acculturation of Working Poor Maya in San Cristobal de las Casas, Mexico
Laura Vares, Brown University
Cultivating Vitality: Examining the Experience of Aging for Italian Women in Midlife
Lesley Jo Weaver, Emory University
Sweet and Low: Diabetes and Depression in India
