I currently have three distinct areas of social research that I am actively pursuing.
Historical Anthropology of Global Health in the Caribbean
Intersection of Critical Disability Studies, Post-humanism & Design
Science and Technology Studies: a focus on biomedicine & cancer
Broadly conceived, my analytical and empirical interests lay in the closely to how health, illness and care are enacted in various locations, the implications of these enactments and how they came to be constituted in the first place. I aim to be an ethnographer first, and rely primarily on critical and rigorous empirical engagement with the topics or area of interest in tandem with “weak theory” to generate effective and sensitive analyses of my subject material.
Below are some areas of research I am interested in, with keywords below.
Anthropology of Health, Illness & Care
Cancer, especially risk and screening
ADHD & Disability
Ethnography of Medical Ontology
Ethnography of “Harm”, “Power” and “Care”
Anthropology of “Help” & Public Health
Ethnography of Biomedical innovation and technology
Anthropology of Food and Nutrition
History of “Global Health”, Development and Care
History of Public Health in Haiti
History of Global Health
History of Colonialism and Public Health
Environmental History
Anthropological History of Psychology and Psychiatry
Political Ecology
Capitalism as World-Ecology
Global Critical Disability & Mad Studies:
ADHD
Theory, history and sociality
Issues of Internationality and Disability
The Empirical Emergence of Disability
Disability, Sexuality & Queer Theory
History of Disability
Neoliberalism, Ableism, Crip Theory