Gracie Wilson and Momoko Katayama reflect on the key points raised at the Cultures of Youth Mental Health workshop held at the University of Chicago’s Hong Kong campus.

Professeure ou professeur en anthropologie des infrastructures:Version françaiseTenure-Track Faculty Position in Anthropology of Infrastructures:English versionPériode d'affichage02-02-2026 au 03-03-2...

“Why treat people and send them back to the conditions that make them sick?”, one of us (Michael Marmot) has asked, based on overwhelming evidence that social forces are among the strongest determinan...

“There are stories that save us, and stories that trap us, and in the midst of an illness it can be very hard to know which is which.”

The AAUP notes with great alarm the rash of recent administrative actions to discipline faculty, staff, and student speech in the aftermath of the murder of Charlie Kirk.

This course draws on a range of perspectives from across the interpretive, critical, and humanistic social sciences to examine the issues of mental health, illness, and distress in higher education.

From Columbia University to Paul Weiss, leaders have gone beyond de-escalation into outright collaboration with Trump.

Historian Robert Cohen, whose most recent book focuses on integration at the University of Georgia, explains what we stand to lose now that anti-DEI attacks extend to the classroom.

The sector is at war. It’s time to fight harder.

What does it mean to conduct ethnography “among white coats” today? Specifically, what kinds of practices, roles, and power relations does being an ethnographer “among” clinicians and scientists entai...

Theories about technology and its relationship to society and self are everywhere, even if we don't always recognize them or articulate them. For example, technology is frequently seen as a primar...

While mental illness has recently been framed in largely neurobiological terms as brain disease, there has also been an increasing awareness of the contingency of psychiatric diagnoses. In this course...

Dr. Eugene Raikhel of the University of Chicago will be the first guest lecturer of the 2024-2025 lecture series. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, a…

Dr. Eugene Raikhel of the University of Chicago will be the first guest lecturer of the 2024-2025 lecture series. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, a…