Very excited to see the publication of this conference report about the workshop Junko Kitanaka and I organized last year. A huge thanks to Gracie Wilson and Momoko Katayama for writing this piece. thepolyphony.org/2026/02/10/y...

Tenure track job opening in my department in Anthropology of Infrastructures! We are a thriving, unionized department. We've had many hires in the last 5 years, so this might be the last position for a while. Deadline for applications at beginning of March. www.fss.ulaval.ca/actualites/p...

I'm co-chairing the Society for Social Studies of Science @4sweb.bsky.social Conference in Toronto, Oct 2026. #STS #scipol #innovation Theme: "TechnoPower • Technoscientific Futures". Open panel submissions portal is open! ls! Deadline: 2nd February 2026 www.4sonline.org/about_the_co...

My research group is seeking to speak to current undergrads (or recent graduates) of Chicagoland colleges about mental health, illness and experiences with services and care. Please feel free to share the attached flyer, with anyone in your circles who might be interested in speaking with us!

Very excited to see this article published! It's a revised version of Angelysse Madsen's MA thesis: "Swipe to diagnose: College students, social media, and the stigma of self-diagnosis": doi.org/10.1016/j.ss...

Deeply honored to be in the wonderful group of co-authors for this introduction to the "Cases in Global Social Medicine" series in The Lancet. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

In Search of the Unclassified Residuum: Q&A with Rachel Aviv The author of “Strangers to Ourselves” on diagnostic stories, iatrogenic narratives, explanatory pluralism, humility, and more. www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/in-search-...

An important and timely piece on autism by anthropologist Richard Grinker.

Such sad news. Jonathan was one of the first people my wife and I met when we moved to Chicago - during a tour of a preschool for our son. Over the years we would run into him at playgrounds, as our children grew up, and of course on campus. He was a lovely human being.

At a moment when higher education is threatened by forces that seek to destroy it and its role in a democratic society, the anticipatory obedience shown by this rush to judgment must be avoided. Link to statement here: 4/4

Very excited about this edited volume which Matthew, Junko and I have been working on for a while and which brings together contributions by a number of amazing scholars!

Important heads up - as the new appropriations for ICE make it one of the largest militaries/police forces in the world. Theda Skocpol has it exactly right. ICE is the muscle behind autocratic capture in the US.

I learned so much from teaching "Critical Studies of Mental Health in Higher Education" this year. A huge thanks to the amazing students and to Gracie Wilson, who was an incredible teaching assistant. Sharing the syllabus here: www.academia.edu/129632674/Cr...

Congratulations to all of the undergrads and 2nd year PhDs who presented their fascinating research at the annual Trial Research Conference in the Department of Comparative Human Development at UChicago! And thanks to keynote speaker Elizabeth Fein for a wonderfully engaging and inspiring talk!

We filed a lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s authority to remake the government without congressional approval. Elena breaks it all down. #PSRW2025

Really looking forward to this event with Todd Meyers, author of GONE GONE, an ethnography of the grief of those who lose loved ones to opioid overdose, today at the Remarque Institute at NYU. Would love to see you if you’re around—note, you have to register to attend:

A huge thanks to @annamueller.bsky.social for zooming in to visit my course on mental health & higher ed to discuss her and @sethabrutyn.bsky.social's fantastic book: "Life under pressure: The social roots of youth suicide & what to do about them." A great discussion & we all learned so much!

The 2025 David Hakken Graduate Student Prize is still open for submissions! We invite current or recent graduate students to submit papers showcasing innovative research at the intersection of anthropology and STS. 🗓️Deadline: June 1, 2025 ✔️Details: castac.org/castac-award...

Implement a 100% tariff and ruin a movie. 6.28318530718

The @nytimes.com says @totomcgee.bsky.social 's new book "Gone, Gone" is a stand-out among many books on the opioid crisis. Molly Young says it's "the first account I’ve found that must be respirated rather than read. Effortlessly intricate." buff.ly/HK7bzrZ

Highly recommended to anyone interested in the relationships between psychiatry, the state, and families, and congratulations to @zhiyingma.bsky.social on this achievement!

Impressive showing in Albuquerque today! #handsoff

Wesleyan President Michael Roth gets it and — more importantly — says it out loud. time.com/7272520/appe...

“If you want to be neutral in the face of an authoritarian, antiscience, anti–free speech, anti-intellectual & xenophobic White House that is directly attacking the university, you have no business in a university leadership position. Do your job. Defend your university.” — Historian Robert Cohen

Been a few days since I reposted this, so here it is again. #Skystorians #HistMed #MedHum please repost widely!

For @chronicle.com, I take stock of the moment in which higher ed finds itself -- under attack from forces in the government and in civil society -- and what we should do about it. www.chronicle.com/article/hand...

I was very pleased to recently contribute a Forward to the volume, "Politics and Practices of the Ethnographies of Biomedicine and STEM: Among White Coats," expertly edited by Cinzia Greco (@cinziag.bsky.social). www.academia.edu/128030876/Fo...

Thx to the participants in the Cultures of Youth Mental Health workshop that Junko Kitanaka and I organized at UChicago's Hong Kong center last week. We'll have a formal conference report soon, but for now I just wanted to mention how much I learned from everyone's research & insights.

Sharing another syllabus, this one for a course on "Technology, society, and self" that I've taught a couple of times. I'd be happy to hear about suggestions for texts that might be added to a future iteration of this class. www.academia.edu/122460134/Te...

A huge thanks to Peter Locke, @noellesullivan.bsky.social, William Leonard, Rebecca Seligman, and other colleagues and students at @nuglobalhealth.bsky.social for hosting me and asking such incisive questions!

Sharing the latest syllabus for a course which I've taught on a number of occasions: "Culture, mental health and psychiatry". www.academia.edu/122368504/Cu...

Very excited to present some of my new work on college mental health at Northwestern's Global Health Studies on November 15 at noon CST. Follow this link to register for either in-person or Zoom attendance: planitpurple.northwestern.edu/event/621358...

Very excited to present some of my new work on college mental health at Northwestern's Global Health Studies on November 15 at noon CST. Follow this link to register for either in-person or Zoom attendance: planitpurple.northwestern.edu/event/621358...