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 \
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 \
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 \
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 \