Psychological & Medical Anthropology
War and political violence; gender and masculinity; embodiment and disability; affect and trauma; humanitarianism; nationalism; authoritarianism; reproductive technologies; Turkey; the Middle East
Subfield:Psychocultural and Medical Anthropology
Contact Information
Email: aciksoz@ucla.edu
Office: 305 Haines Hall
Social inequality, violence, substance abuse, incarceration, homelessness, mental illness, ethnic segregation/conflict, HIV, urban anthropology, US inner-city, Central America and the Caribbean
Contact Information
Email: pbourgois@gmail.com
Office: B7-435 Semel
Patient-centeredness, recovery, and shared decision-making in clinic settings; research ethics; mental health stigma; physician wellness
Subfield:Psychocultural and Medical Anthropology
Contact Information
Email: ebromley@mednet.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-794-3734
Psychological anthropology, social theory, social relationships, social/moral emotions, methodology; Africa
Subfield:Psychological and Sociocultural Anthropology
Contact Information
Email: afiske@ucla.edu
Office: 308 Haines Hall
Phone: 310-206-7719
Health care decision making; health and illness in everyday life contexts; cultural models; narrative and illness; remembering
Subfield:Psychocultural and Medical Anthropology
Contact Information
Email: lgarro@anthro.ucla.edu
Office: 316A Haines Hall
Phone: 310-206-6249
Ethnopsychology and psychoanalysis; psychiatric and medical anthropology; person-centered ethnography; Indonesia, Oceania
Subfield:Psychocultural and Medical Anthropology
Contact Information
Email: dhollan@anthro.ucla.edu
Office: 306 Haines Hall
Phone: 310-825-3366
Meaning in psychosis; institutions and care; homelessness; Veteran health; political economy of health; critical global health; social psychiatry; HIV/AIDS; Africa
Subfield:Psychiatry, Biobehavioral Science, and Medical Anthropology
Contact Information
Email: ikalofonos@mednet.ucla.edu
Office: B7-435 Semel Institute
Phone: 310-794-5809
Transcultural psychiatry, ethnographic film, Indonesia (Bali, Java), mental illness, traditional healing, trauma and social violence, neuroanthropology
Subfield:Psychological and Medical Anthropology
Contact Information
Email: lemelson@ucla.edu
Office: 374 Haines Hall
Phone: 310-454-5904
Psychological and medical anthropology, phenomenology, sensorial anthropology, theories of experience in anthropology, self and subjective experience, empathy, pain, emotion/mood, morality, temporality, anthropology of the will, Yap (Federated States of Micronesia)
Subfield:Psychocultural and Medical Anthropology
Contact Information
Email: jthroop@ucla.edu
Office: 388 Haines Hall
Phone: 310-794-2190
Science, Medicine, and the Environment; Climate Change; Race; Design; Historical Anthropology; South Asia
Subfield:Sociocultural and Medical Anthropology
Contact Information
Email: bvenkat@ucla.edu
