Members’ Directory

Amine Aktekin is a researcher who is eager to understand memory politics in the context of intergenerational transition and spatial imagination with the help of fieldwork methodologies. Strongly believing in the motto of “taking people seriously”, she is much interested in social memory, memory politics, cultural transmission, and spatial imagination. Currently, she works for a research institute which is one of the considerable sector-based entities in Türkiye as a researcher and coordinator. 

Yael Assor is an anthropologist who studies how culturally-dependent moral views shape healthcare policy-making procedures. Assor gained her Ph.D. at UCLA’s Department of Anthropology, where she studied how an ideal of “objectivity” as ethically appropriate conduct shapes the decisions made at the Israeli Public Committee for the Enhancement of the Medical Services Basket (known in Israel as Va’adat Sal Hatrufot). Currently, Assor is a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Haifa’s Department of Anthropology, where she develops her new research on the ethical assumptions underlying the notion of “medical effectiveness” in cost-effectiveness analysis. Assor’s studies have appeared in leading anthropological and bioethical journals.

Kathrin Bauer is a research associate and doctoral candidate at the Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology at Freie Universität Berlin. Her Ph.D. project examines attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in different Colombian communities to highlight the sociocultural embeddedness of the phenomenon. Among her research interests are neurodiversity, mental health, emotion regulation and neuroanthropology.

Colette Berbesque is an evolutionary anthropologist with particular research interests in human ecology, the evolution of the hominin diet, and the evolution of cooperation, prestige, and hierarchy. For more than a decade, her research has included fieldwork with the Hadza of Tanzania, one of the last extant hunter-gatherer populations. Through analysis of behavioural data from the Hadza as well as from other hunter-gatherer groups, she investigates aspects of human evolution, including: strategies of food procurement and provisioning, cooperation, reputation, and sexual selection and gender.

Flavia Cangià is Post Doc Researcher at the Institute of Psychology and Education of the University of Neuchâtel (Switzerland) collaborating on a project on families in repeated geographical mobility as part of the National Center of Competence in Research NCCR – On the Move. She has conducted ethnographic and qualitative research in various contexts (Japan, Malaysia, Italy, Switzerland), and she is interested in migration and mobility, work transitions, imagination, sociocultural diversity, emotions, precarity, childhood and youth.​

NCCR – on the move | National Center of Competence in Research – The Migration-Mobility Nexus | nccr-onthemove.ch

Julia Cassaniti studies the psychology of mental health and religious culture in and across transnational Southeast Asia, with an ethnographic focus on Theravada Buddhist practice in Thailand. She is especially interested in processes of mental categorization, and the ways that people construct reality through shared categorical engagements, along with the implications these have for health and well-being. Her projects include a long-term study of change through the Pali concept of impermanence in Northern Thailand; a comparative ethnography of mindfulness’ global circulations across Thailand, Sri Lanka, and Myanmar; and an analysis of ghosts, affect, and the supernatural agency of interpersonal energies in Southeast Asia. New research will examine the cross-cultural psychology of cognitive heuristics involving attention and perception, along with continued work on social patterns and reality-construction. Dr. Cassaniti is the author of Living Buddhism: Mind, Self and Emotion in a Thai Community (Cornell U. Press, 2015); Remembering the Present: Mindfulness in Buddhist Asia (Cornell U. Press, 2018); and Universalism Without Uniformity: Explorations in Mind and Culture (U. Chicago Press, 2017).

Remembering the Present: Mindfulness in Buddhist Asia (2018) and Living Buddhism: Mind, Self and Emotion in a Thai Community (2015) are available at here. Universalism Without Uniformity: Explorations in Mind and Culture (2017) can be found here.

A recent podcast on Remembering the Present is now available here.

Tirthankar is pursuing Dr. phil. in Anthropology at the Freie Universität, Berlin theorizing the institutionalisation of fear in a democracy to create a subservient citizenry, using the analytical framework of political affect. He has an MA in English and an MA in South Asian Studies (specializing in Anthropology and Politics). At Heidelberg (Germany), he devised a survey and intervention to address sexual harassment and assault at the university space. He has worked with suppressed groups across rural and urban India for over five years through research, advocacy and rights-based empowerment.

Yu-Chun Chen embarks on a PhD program in social anthropology at the University of Roehampton, with a project of ‘Become and becoming a dancer: the ethnography of the Taipei Dance Circle’. Before this PhD degree, she studied Sociology for eight years in the Universities in Taiwan. She was also an editor for Renlai Monthly magazine from 2010 to 2013 which concerning on the cultural, social and spiritual issues in Asia and throughout the world.

http://www.roehampton.ac.uk ｜http://www.erenlai.com/tw

http://eportfolios.roehampton.ac.uk/anthroehampton/

Dr. Tiffany Cone is an anthropologist and filmmaker from New Zealand with experience conducting research and producing documentaries in East Asia, South Asia, the Middle East and the Pacific. Her primary research areas are psychological anthropology, visual anthropology and pedagogy in higher education. Her research in psychological anthropology focuses on cross-cultural understandings of consciousness, subjectivity and the self. Dr. Cone is currently exploring how Eastern process philosophy (specifically Buddhism and Daoism) could impact understandings of consciousness within psychological anthropology.

Florin Cristea is a PhD candidate at the Insitute of Social and Cultural Anthropology at Freie Universität Berlin. His current research combines methods and epistemologies stemming from psychological and medical anthropology and focuses on the emotional dimension of mental illnesses. In his previous work he surveyed diagnostic uncertainty and clinical experience. He has conducted a six-month research in a psycho-social reintegration center in Romania, and a three-month research in a mental hospital in Tanga, Tanzania. He is a member of the working group Psychological Anthropology of the German Association of Social and Cultural Anthropology.

James Davies graduated from the University of Oxford in 2006 with a D.Phil in Social and Medical anthropology. He is a Reader in Social Anthropology and Mental Health at the University of Roehampton and a qualified psychotherapist. His books include The Making of Psychotherapists: an anthropological analysis, and the bestseller Cracked: why psychiatry is doing more harm than good. He edited Emotions in the Field: the psychology and anthropology of fieldwork experience and The Sedated Society: the causes and harms of our psychiatric drug epidemic. He is co-founder of the Council for Evidence-based Psychiatry, which is now secretariat to the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Prescribed Drug Dependence (https://prescribeddrug.org/).

Along with Dr. Keir Martin and Dr. Thomas Stodulka, Dr. James Davies founded this network (ENPA) in January 2018.

Leandro Durazzo holds a PhD in Anthropology (UFRN, Brazil) and researches Indigenous Ethnology, territoriality, ritual, language revitalization, education and traditional practices. He is currently a postdoctoral fellow at UFRN’s Program in Psychology, working on territorialities, traditional peoples and health policies. He is also a coordinator for obPALA (the Observatory for Latin American Environmental Psychology, UFRN). As a UNESCO consultant (2021-2022), he developed a diagnosis on Indigenous health in Rio Grande do Norte, a work envised to further design public policies.

António Fonseca is a Portuguese psychologist and became associate professor of Psychology at the Catholic University of Portugal (UCP) after his Ph.D. in Biomedical Sciences from the University of Porto (Portugal). He is a member of the Centre for Research in Human Development (CEDH-UCP) and a consultant for the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. His areas of interest are human development, the psychology of aging, psychological well-being and counseling, health and quality of life. He believes that enhancing ageing in place responses is a major challenge for society addressing the needs of older people based on where they live.

Vladimer Lado Gamsakhurdia has obtained PhD degree in psychological anthropology from Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University in 2016 and has been holding the position of assistant professor there ever since.

Vladimer Gamsakhurdia worked as a visiting research fellow at the universities of Luxembourg, Aalborg, Fribourg, Basque Country and at CHD department, at the university of Chicago.

His research is focused on the idea of dialogicality, sociocultural changes and ‘Self’s’ adaptation to it. He is currently concentrated on the development of the theory of proculturation.

Anne Sigfrid Grønseth is Professor in Social Anthropology at Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences, Lillehammer, where she directs the Research Migration and Diversity Studies. Lost Selves and Lonely Persons: Experiences of Illness and Well-Being among Tamil Refugees in Norway (2010) is her major work. Her research has expanded to include asylum-seekers and child care protection services with concern for belonging and wellbeing, self and personhood, dwelling and being, rituals and performance, while also engaging methodology and modes of knowledge. These interests are represented in her edited volumes The Ethics of Knowledge Creation (2017, with Lisette Josephides), Being Human, Being Migrant (2013), and Mutuality and Empathy (2010, with Dona Lee Davis).

https://www.inn.no/om-hoegskolen/ansatte/anne-gronseth

Editor of Nordic Journal of Social Research (NJSR)

http://journals.hioa.no/index.php/njsr

Sibel Aksu Güngör received her Ph.D. degree at Yeditepe University, Turkey. In her dissertation, she discussed the relationship between cognitive processes, culture, and the material world. She is a lecturer in Psychological and Cognitive Anthropology. She is the founder of PUHU Research and Consultancy (www.puhu.com). PUHU develops projects that offer solutions with the awareness of the relationship between cognitive processes and social issues. The team of PUHU produces interdisciplinary content that contributes to the fields of anthropology, psychology, and coaching.

Hagar Hazaz Berger is a Ph.D candidate at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel. She is also a Lecturer at the Occupational Therapy School at the Hebrew University and at College of Management Academic Studies and nursing Schools. She is interested in meaning, identity, protest, searching for meaning, everyday life, suffering, and emotions.

Her current research project is searching for meaning and identity construction during social protest. Hagar is a co-founder of the Israel Psychological anthropology section in the Israeli Anthropological Association and a co-editor of the Israeli sociological Association newsletter.

Edda Heyken is a Doctoral Researcher working in the anthropological-psychiatric project “Affective Efforts of Migration: South and North Vietnamese Lifeworlds in Separated and Reunified Berlin” at the in the CRC “Affective Societies” at Freie Universität Berlin. In her doctoral thesis, she addresses the question of how affects influence memory-making processes as well as non-/belonging in the lives of elderly South Vietnamese refugees in Berlin. Her research interests encompass memory and silence from a psychological anthropological perspective.

Andrew Hodges runs an editorial and translation business in the UK. He had a former career as a social anthropologist. His areas of expertise include the anthropology of football fan cultures, and the post-socialist transformation of work in Serbia and Croatia. He translates from Croatian, German, and Spanish into English. He is a transactional analysis trainee interested in psychotherapy, and has worked as research project evaluator for the European Association for Transactional Analysis (EATA).

https://andrewjohnhodges.com/

For ENPA, Andrew is the person in charge with the IT/Web & mailing list.

Dr. Rosie Jones McVey uses ethnography to study the diverse ways that people make sense of their own, and other minds. Her PhD (Cambridge University, 2019) investigated human relationships with horses, and particularly, people’s understanding of ‘mindedness’ as part of their ethical relationships with horses. She emphasized the ethical challenges that accompany ‘partnerships’ built without verbal language, and she highlighted the importance of representationalist theories of mind amid riding projects, bucking the trend of multispecies ethnography by leaving horses conspicuously absent from her account (her monograph is Human-Horse Relations and the Ethics of Knowing, Routledge, 2023). Dr. Jones McVey then took up a Junior Research Fellowship at Christ’s College, Cambridge, investigating equine-assisted therapies for UK Youth, and took forward her interest in ethics and representationalism. She has written papers about the ethical/political portrayal of young people’s goals, voices, and ‘outcomes’. She also has an interest in the way judgments, values, and responsibilities shape and are shaped by physical space. Dr. Jones McVey now studies ‘The Moral Terrains’ of Green Social Prescribing, on a Wellcome Trust Early Career Fellowship, based at the University of Exeter – project details here: https://wcceh.org/projects/moral-terrains-an-anthropology-of-green-social-prescribing/.

Hyang-Jin Jung received her Ph.D.in 2001 in cultural anthropology from the University of Minnesota, U.S.A. Her research interests lie in the intersection among culture, self, and emotion, with U.S. and the two Koreas as her primary anthropological sites. Her ongoing research projects include the emotional culture of the postmodern American society, the psychocultural underpinnings of the North Korean statehood and society, and education and the socialization of affect in South Korea.

Editor, Korean Anthropology Review | http://www.kanthroreview.com | kareview@snu.ac.kr

Ward Keeler‘s research interests focus on the tenor of social interaction in three Southeast Asian societies: Central Java and Bali (both in Indonesia), and lowland Burma. He is particularly interested in the interface of psychology and anthropology with respect so notions of the self, gender, and hierarchy. Currently, professor Ward is also a fellow at Hansewissenschaftskolleg in Delmenorst.

Eleni Kotsira holds a PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of St Andrews (UK) and a First-Class Honours BA in Social Anthropology from Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences (Greece).

Since March 2021, Eleni works as a Senior Social Researcher at Alma Economics, an organisation advising governments and charities on policies and services to help the most vulnerable, where she leads an amazing team of Social Researchers. She also serves as the Designated Safeguarding Lead for all research activities undertaken by the organisation.

Eleni is also a poetry editor with Otherwise Magazine, an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (UK), and a founding member of the Association of Social Anthropologists Greece.

Currently she sits on the ENPA Task Force on Public Psychological Anthropology (November 2023 – July 2024).

You can find out more about Eleni’s research and professional expertise, as well as publications and other outputs here: https://elenikotsira.wordpress.com/

And you can read her writing blog here: https://poetic-movements.blogspot.com/

Naomi Leite is a Reader in Anthropology at SOAS, University of London. A psychological and cultural anthropologist, her work focuses on identity, identification, belonging, and exclusion across domains and scales of sociality, from the interpersonal to the institutional to the most abstractly imagined. She has a strong interest in cultural logics and modes of reasoning, lived experience, and the social, cultural, and intersubjective constitution of self, especially in relation to prevailing systems of social classification. Much of her work has explored these themes in tourism encounters, a context ripe for alternative expressions of self and enactments of transcultural (dis)identification. All of these topics come together in her first book, Unorthodox Kin: Portuguese Marranos and the Global Search for Belonging (University of California Press, 2017), winner of the 2018 Stirling Prize for Best Publication in Psychological Anthropology. She also co-edited The Ethnography of Tourism (Rowman and Littlefield, 2019) and is the winner of the Bruner Book Prize, Anthropology of Tourism Interest Group, American Anthropological Association, 2020.

Her new research, a comparative project involving sites in three countries, turns to informal sociality, belonging, and exclusion in tacitly or explicitly “inclusive” institutions—therapeutic communities, counterextremist youth programs, retreat centers—with an eye to differing models, experiences, and outcomes of “inclusion,” as well as institutional and interpersonal mechanisms that foster or hinder its fruition. Dr. Leite also has ongoing projects in the areas of rationality and metacognition; cultural logics and enactments of kinship and peoplehood; and intersubjectivity and vulnerability in ethnographic practice.

Kenneth Little is an Associate Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Anthropology at York University, Toronto. Most generally his research focuses on the critical turn in anthropology to affect, social creativity, and performativity. Currently, he is conducting long-term research on the rise of the tourist state in Belize. His work attends to how tourism becomes a significant modality through which contemporary everyday life in Belize is organized and how tourist encounters open imaginative spaces that stimulate new subject productions, highlight new aspects of social relations and interactions with nature that actively ensure new “fantasies of becoming.” He is also committed to developing a generative poetics of tourism encounter that understands writing as inseparable from our engagement in the world; writing ethnography as an occurant art. Favouring a non-representationalist, assemblages, productivist-materialist approach to critical tourism studies, as a way of augmenting a dialectical, representationalist one, means developing ethnographic work in tourism studies that is meant to engage the anthropology of tourism with a literature that it mostly doesn’t think with, namely critical post-humanist debates concerned with how encounters “matter” and how matter is thought and constituted through entanglements, refrains, knots, and figures of human and non-human bodies, affects, objects, and practices. He most recently completed a book on this subject entitled On the Nervous Edge of an Impossible Paradise: Affect, Tourism, Belize, Berghahn Books 2020.

Joe Long leads a programme of applied research in services for autistic people in Scotland. His research concerns the ways that autism knowledge is generated and mobilized, and how clinical, policy, and practice discourses shape the experience of autistic people. Joe is committed to collaborative ethnography that meaningfully involves supported autistic people and support practitioners. He received his Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Aberdeen and was previously a research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology.

Ivana Maček is Associate Professor at the Department of Social Anthropology, Stockholm University, and a licensed psychotherapist. Since 1990s, she has done research, written, and lectured on mass political violence in Bosnia and Hercegovina, comparative genocide, anthropological methods with special focus on the non-symbolic communication, engagement of Swedish professionals in global warzones, as well as memory and intergenerational transmission of war experiences within Bosnian families in Sweden. Her major international publications are Sarajevo Under Siege (PENN 2009), and Engaging Violence (Routledge 2014).

https://www.socant.su.se/english/research/our-researchers/ivana-maček

David Mosse is a Professor of Social Anthropology at SOAS with current research interests in the anthropology of mental life, distress and survival, and in mental healthcare systems, therapeutic practices and public policy in the UK and South Asia. This includes ethnographic and public engagement in approaches to psychiatric crisis and suicide prevention across cultures.

He is currently involved in Open Dialogue as a model of mental healthcare as practitioner and ethnographer. At SOAS he teaches modules on Mind, Culture & Psychiatry.

https://www.soas.ac.uk/staff/staff31472.php

Latest book: http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520273498

Recent open access article: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305750X18301943

Recent article:https://doi.org/10.1177/1360780418797718

Marjorie Murray is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and Principal Researcher at the Center for Intercultural and Indigenous Research CIIR. She is interested in parenting, early socialization and care; aspiration and its temporalities; and material culture and consumption. Her current research project studies parenting and care in Santiago de Chile, focusing on the ways in which social aspirations, territorial and cultural flows take place together with an intensification of normativity and social demands upon parenting.

Sevasti-Melissa Nolas is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London. Her research areas include: human agency and lived experience, childhood, youth and family lives, civic and political practices across the life course, and publics creating methodologies. She is the Principal Investigator of the ERC funded Connectors Study and the co-editor of entanglements: experiments in multimodal ethnography.

http://www.gold.ac.uk/sociology/staff/nolas-sevasti-melissa/

Co-Director https://childhoodpublics.org

Co-Editor https://entanglementsjournal.org/

Samuele Poletti‘s doctoral research is focused on the perception(s) of death in the Sinja Valley of Jumla District (Western Nepal), and how this may shed light upon the ways in which people make sense of existence. Besides resorting to the classic instrument of academic writing, he is interested in the possibilities that photography may offer as a complementary means to the ethnographic description, not least by virtue of a communicative immediacy not always possible in the written text. He is member of: Swiss Anthropological Association; American Anthropological Association (AAA);  Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies (ANHS); Britain-Nepal Academic Council (BNAC).

http://www.samuelepoletti.com

Dr. Keira Pratt-Boyden is an anthropologist working across projects related to health service improvement and transformation, health experiences and social justice. Her PhD thesis explored modes of listening and ways of being among mental health activists in London as means of healing from mental distress and experiences of conventional biomedical approaches to treatment. Her current project as a postdoctoral researcher explores black adoptee children’s experiences of care in social care settings. Her research and interests in psychological anthropology include mental-health activism, worldbuilding as healing, critical phenomenology, and public and activist/engaged anthropology.

Dora Rebelo is a Psychologist (since 2000) and has been working mostly within humanitarian contexts, in different countries, supporting innovative community mental health projects.

Since 2017, Dora started a PhD in ISCTE-IUL (Lisbon). She is also a researcher at the Center for Anthropology Research (CRIA) in Portugal. Her PhD research focuses on informal solidarity with refugees and asylum seekers on the move. She is interested in questions of reciprocity, political activism, but also the relationships established between volunteers and activists and people on the move.

Simultaneously, Dora is interested in developing a dialogue between psychology and anthropology, focusing on fieldwork, positionally and intersubjectivities

Antonius C.G.M. Robben is a Professor of Anthropology at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. He received a Ph.D. (1986) from the University of California, Berkeley, and has conducted fieldwork on fishermen in northeast Brazil, and political violence, enforced disappearances, and socio-cultural traumas in Argentina. His monographs include Political Violence and Trauma in Argentina (2005), which won the Textor Prize from the American Anthropological Association in 2006 for Excellence in Anthropology, and Argentina Betrayed: Memory, Mourning, and Accountability (2018).

http://www.uu.nl/staff/trobben

Peter Safronov is a philosopher who is now a visiting researcher at the University of Amsterdam. His research combines political philosophy, anthropology, and media studies, employing computational and ethnographic methodologies to explore care and caring interactions online. His current project focuses on the formation of affective collectivities via social media and AI-assisted technologies.

Annemarie Samuels is an assistant professor at the Leiden Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology. She has extensive ethnographic research experience in Indonesia on the topics of narratives, morality, care, HIV/AIDS and disaster and a broad interest in psychological anthropology, narrative studies, the anthropology of silence, phenomenology, and medical anthropology. Her monograph titled “After the tsunami: disaster narratives and the remaking of everyday life in Aceh” is forthcoming with the University of Hawai’i press.

https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/staffmembers/annemarie-samuels#tab-1

Irina Savu-Cristea is a PhD candidate in Anthropology, focusing on emotions and self-making practices among girls in a holistic school in Bali. She discovered anthropology “at home”, in Romania, where she graduated an Anthropology MA at SNSPA Bucharest. Since then, she completed the MA Research Training Program in Social Sciences at Humboldt University Berlin and became interested in developing collaborative research methods. Her projects revolve around life choices and emotions of high-school girls, while integrating social, cognitive and psychological anthropologies.

Maija-Eliina Sequeira is a PhD candidate in Anthropology at the University of Helsinki. She holds an MSc in Demography and Health and a BA in Human Sciences, and has recently worked in English education in Colombia. Alongside a strong grounding in anthropology, her doctoral work will also incorporate methods from developmental psychology in order to explore how children in the Colombian Caribbean conceptualise inter-personal hierarchies

Thomas Stodulka is Professor of Social Anthropology, Visual and Media Anthropology at the University of Münster. His work focuses on the interplay between affect, emotion, alternative economies and eco-social movements, mental health and illness, and  at the margins. He conducted long-term fieldwork with street-related communities in Yogyakarta, Indonesia and he has directed international research projects on the role of affect and emotion in fieldwork and ethnography, travelling concepts in mental health, illness, and learning, critical perspectives on big data. He is currently working on permaculture, learning and shaping futures at the margins. He is co-founder of the European Network for Psychological Anthropology (ENPA) at EASA, member of the Working Group Psychological Anthropology at the German Anthropological Association (DGSKA), was associate editor of Ethos, and is currently Brill book series co-editor of Social Sciences in Asia, and co-editor of the public anthropology blog anthrometronom. Thomas is member of the organizing team of the Annual Transdisciplinary Winter School Culture, Psychology, and Qualitative Research, and member of the editorial board at cultura & psyché – Journal of Cultural Psychology.

His books include Feelings at the Margins (2014), Coming of Age on the Streets of Java (2017), Affective Dimensions of Fieldwork and Ethnography (2019), and Emotionen auf Expeditionen (2019), Emotionen im Feld (2019), and Anthropologie der Emotionen (2023), which were published in German.

Sujit Thomas is a PhD Candidate at the Department of Anthropology at New York University. His doctoral dissertation The Open Brain: Repair and Enhancement in the Age of Plasticity is an ethnography of neuroscientists, psychiatrists and amateur “brain-hackers” in New York City, London and Oxford. It focuses on the revival of marginalised cybernetic and psychedelic paradigms in the brain sciences and its implications for our understanding of human consciousness and mental disorders.”

Dr. Toma studied medicine at UMF “Carol Davila” and then, he approached anthropology, graduating from a masters degree in the field. He obtained his Ph.D. in Psychiatry. In 2000, he initiated a research program in Medical Anthropology in IAFR and has developed numerous research projects in the field of “Medical Humanities” – a field of boundary that combines concepts and methods from medical anthropology and history of medicine. He is currently collaborating with Dr. Sabina Stan, from Dublin City University, in a project on cross-border migration and medical tourism in the European Union.

Panos Tsitsanoudis (he/him), holds a degree in Psychology (BA) from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and a Master’s degree (MA) in Gender studies, from the Department of Social Anthropology and History of the University of Aegean, in Lesvos, Greece. His research areas and methods are varying between psychoanalysis, affect theory, critical psychology and social anthropology. At the moment, he is pursuing his PhD research, working in the intersections of intimacy, (hetero)sexuality, femicidal violence and gendered death, from a critical psychological anthropological perspective.

Tzanetou Vasia is a psychological anthropologist at Society of Social Psychiatry and Mental Health and Adult educator. She is interested in the Biopsychosocial Therapy Approach , Neuroanthropology and Education. Her work focuses on developing and implementing interventions to improve the psychological wellbeing and resilience in vulnerable populations.

Eva van Roekel is Assistant Professor in Social and Cultural Anthropology at VU Amsterdam. For more than a decade she has worked and lived in Latin America. Her areas of interest are violence, trauma, emotion and visual anthropology. Her current research project is about military subjectivities and changing warfare. Besides her scholarly publications she makes documentaries and writes short stories. More of her work can be found at:  http://www.dokumento.org

Anita von Poser is a Professor of Psychological Anthropology with a specific focus on “Migration, Psyche, Aging” at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Freie Universität Berlin. She is also Principal Investigator of an anthropological-psychiatric project within the Berlin-based Collaborative Research Center 1171 “Affective Societies”. Her major interests pertain to the fields of psychological anthropology and phenomenological anthropology, the anthropology of aging, care, belonging, and im-/mobility, and the anthropology of social relationships and foodways. She has conducted long-term ethnographic research both in rural and urban lifeworlds of Papua New Guinea as well as entangled spaces of Berlin and Vietnam. Her single- and co-authored publications include Foodways and Empathy (Berghahn 2013), Care as Process (Ethics and Social Welfare 2017), and The Power of Shared Embodiment (Culture, Medicine, Psychiatry 2020).

https://www.polsoz.fu-berlin.de/ethnologie/forschung/arbeitsstellen/anthropologie_der_emotionen/personen/poser-anita/index.html

https://www.sfb-affective-societies.de/en/teilprojekte/A/A02/index.html

Editor of the Book Series EmotionCultures (together with Birgitt Röttger-Rössler) https://www.transcript-verlag.de/reihen/ethnologie-und-kulturanthropologie/emotionskulturen-emotioncultures/?f=12320

Brady Wagoner received his PhD from the University of Cambridge, where he started his research on memory, imagination, social change and environmental communication. His studies of remembering include the analysis of conversations, narratives, reenactments and most recently how people relate to different kinds of memorial sites. He is associate editor of the journals Culture & Psychology and Peace & Conflict. His books include The Constructive Mind: Bartlett’s Psychology in Reconstruction (CUP, 2017), Handbook of Culture and Memory (OUP, 2018)

Nicole Weydmann is Research Associate at Jacobs University in Bremen. Her current research project is investigating concepts and approaches underlying healing ideologies of new rightist movements in Germany and Austria. She received her Ph.D. in psychology at Jacobs University Bremen. In her doctoral studies she focused on concepts and approaches underlying the use of traditional and complementary medicine in urban Indonesia / Yogyakarta (‘Healing is not just dealing with your body’, 2019). Besides her substantive focus on traditional and alternative medicine in Southeast Asia, Nicole has a major focus on reflexive research methodologies, highlighting the formative influences of researchers on different steps of meaning making.

Recent publication: Weydmann, Nicole (2019). ‘Healing is not just dealing with your body‘ – A Reflexive Grounded Theory Study Exploring Women’s Concepts and Approaches Underlying the Use of Traditional and Complementary Medicine in Indonesia. Berlin: Regiospectra.

Tyler Zoanni is a medical, sociocultural, and visual anthropologist. His current research explores the lives and worlds of people with cognitive disabilities in Uganda. More generally Tyler’s research interests include religion, kinship, person-hood, and the politics of health and well-being in Africa. Tyler’s first film is The Ladies (13 min; Ukrainian with English subtitles; distributed by DER), an observational short evoking the routines of Ukrainian women who for 50 years have gathered to make dumplings for their church.

zoanni.com

Cognitive Disability: a special issue of The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology https://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/cja/36/1/cja.36.issue-1.xml