# Rogelio Scott
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# Rogelio Scott
### Overview
Rogelio Scott-Insúa is a PhD candidate in socio-cultural anthropology who specializes in medical anthropology, the anthropology of science and psychological anthropology. His research interests include the trans/formations of mental health systems, genomics and society, healthcare reform, scientific controversies, the geopolitics of science, and sociocultural epidemiology. His PhD dissertation explores the articulations of psychoanalysis with genomic medicine and global mental health in Brazil. His research has been supported by the Wenner-Gren Foundation, as well as by the Sage Fellowship, the Latin American Studies Program, the Society for the Humanities, the Qualitative and Interpretive Research Institute, and the Einaudi Center for International Studies at Cornell. Currently, he is also part of an ongoing interdisciplinary research project that studies the explanatory models developed by the population of Arequipa (Peru) about COVID-19. Rogelio holds a BA in Psychology from the Universidad Nacional de San Agustin (Peru), an MA in Medical Anthropology and Global Health from Universitat Rovira i Virgili (Spain), and a Graduate Diploma in Psychoanalytic Theory from the Centro de Investigación y Docencia en Psicoanálisis (Peru).
### Publications
Scott-Insua, R., **Freud Among the Geneticists**, *Platypus* (CASTAC) <https://blog.castac.org/2025/10/freud-among-the-geneticists/>
(w/ A. Domingues) ‘**Give Me the World and I Will Raise Laboratories: Veiled Provincialism and Geopolitics of Knowledge in Latin American STS’**, In: Invernizzi, N. & L. Rodriguez Medina (Eds.) *Latin American Breakthroughs in STS Theory*. Singapore: Palgrave. Pp. 89-112. <https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-96-5419-2_4>
(w/ I. Ramírez) **From Victims to Beneficiaries: Shaping Postconflict Subjects through State Reparations in Peru**, *Latin American Perspectives* 46(5): 158–173. <https://www.jstor.org/stable/48595339?seq=1>
Scott-Insua, R., ‘**Review of: Fernando Vidal & Francisco Ortega. Being brains: Making the cerebral subject**’, *Dynamis* 38(2): 519-522. <https://scielo.isciii.es/pdf/dyn/v38n2/0211-9536-Dynamis-38-02-519.pdf>
## Courses - Fall 2025
- [ANTHR 1101 : FWS: Culture, Society, and Power](https://classes.cornell.edu/browse/roster/FA25/class/ANTHR/1101)