# Psychological & Medical Anthropology

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

[## [S. Can Açıksöz](https://anthro.ucla.edu/person/salih-can-aciksoz/)

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](mailto:aciksoz@ucla.edu "aciksoz@ucla.edu")
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**Office:** 305 Haines Hall
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[## [Philippe Bourgois](https://anthro.ucla.edu/person/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](mailto:pbourgois@gmail.com "pbourgois@gmail.com")
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**Office:** B7-435 Semel
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[## [Ugo F. Edu](https://anthro.ucla.edu/person/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](mailto:uedu@ucla.edu "uedu@ucla.edu")
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[## [Alan Page Fiske](https://anthro.ucla.edu/person/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](mailto:afiske@ucla.edu "afiske@ucla.edu")
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**Office:** 308 Haines Hall
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[## [Linda Garro](https://anthro.ucla.edu/person/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](mailto:lgarro@anthro.ucla.edu "lgarro@anthro.ucla.edu")
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**Office:** 316A Haines Hall
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[## [Douglas W. Hollan](https://anthro.ucla.edu/person/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](mailto:dhollan@anthro.ucla.edu "dhollan@anthro.ucla.edu")
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**Office:** 306 Haines Hall
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[## [Ippolytos Kalofonos](https://anthro.ucla.edu/person/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](mailto:ikalofonos@mednet.ucla.edu "ikalofonos@mednet.ucla.edu")
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**Office:** B7-435 Semel Institute
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[## [Robert Lemelson](https://anthro.ucla.edu/person/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](mailto:lemelson@ucla.edu "lemelson@ucla.edu")
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**Office:** 374 Haines Hall
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[## [C. Jason Throop](https://anthro.ucla.edu/person/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](mailto:jthroop@ucla.edu "jthroop@ucla.edu")
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**Office:** 388 Haines Hall
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[## [Bharat Venkat](https://anthro.ucla.edu/person/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](mailto:bvenkat@ucla.edu "bvenkat@ucla.edu")
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