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Psychological & Medical Anthropology
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undergraduate
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https://anthro.ucla.edu/subfields/psychological-medical-anthropology/
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https://anthro.ucla.edu/
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Psychological & Medical Anthropology

Source: https://anthro.ucla.edu/subfields/psychological-medical-anthropology/ Parent: https://anthro.ucla.edu/

[## S. Can Açıksöz

Associate Professor](https://anthro.ucla.edu/person/salih-can-aciksoz/)

Research Interests:

Medical anthropology; political anthropology; critical disability studies; war and political violence; gender and masculinities; veterans; humanitarianism; nationalism and the far-right; politics of reproduction; Turkey, Europe, and the Middle East

Subfield:

Medical and Sociocultural Anthropology

Contact Information

Email: aciksoz@ucla.edu \ Office: 305 Haines Hall \

[## Philippe Bourgois

Professor-in-Residence](https://anthro.ucla.edu/person/philippe-bourgois/)

Research Interests:

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 \

[## Ugo F. Edu

Assistant Professor](https://anthro.ucla.edu/person/ugo-f-edu/)

Research Interests:

Medical anthropology; Black feminist anthropology; Creative anthropology; politics of reproduction; aesthetics; race; gender; body knowledge; body modifications

Subfield:

Medical Anthropology

Contact Information

Email: uedu@ucla.edu \

[## Alan Page Fiske

Professor](https://anthro.ucla.edu/person/alan-page-fiske/)

Research Interests:

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 \

[## Linda Garro

Professor](https://anthro.ucla.edu/person/linda-garro/)

Research Interests:

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 \

[## Douglas W. Hollan

Distinguished Professor](https://anthro.ucla.edu/person/douglas-w-hollan/)

Research Interests:

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 \

[## Ippolytos Kalofonos

Assistant Professor-in-Residence](https://anthro.ucla.edu/person/ippolytos-kalofonos/)

Research Interests:

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 \

[## Robert Lemelson

Adjunct Professor](https://anthro.ucla.edu/person/robert-lemelson/)

Research Interests:

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 \

[## C. Jason Throop

Professor](https://anthro.ucla.edu/person/c-jason-throop/)

Research Interests:

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 \

[## Bharat Venkat

Associate Professor](https://anthro.ucla.edu/person/bharat-venkat/)

Research Interests:

Science, Medicine, and the Environment; Climate Change; Race; Design; Historical Anthropology; South Asia

Subfield:

Sociocultural and Medical Anthropology

Contact Information

Email: bvenkat@ucla.edu \