Biographical Info

Nadia Augustyniak is a PhD candidate in anthropology at The Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY). Her research explores psychological counselling services in Sri Lanka’s government sector, tracing how ethical understandings of care, family ideologies, and gender and class relations shape therapeutic practice and its social effects. Her interests include family life and intimacy; morality and ethics; phenomenological anthropology; the globalization of psychotherapy; gender and labor; and feminist ethnography. She teaches courses on medical anthropology and ethnography of South Asia at Queens College, CUNY.