JOÃO BIEHL

Department of Anthropology Princeton University 128 Aaron Burr Hall

Princeton, NJ 08544-1011 Office: (609) 258 6327; Fax: (609) 258 1032

Email: jbiehl@princeton.edu Website: www.joaobiehl.net

EDUCATION Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, 1999. Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Religion, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, 1996. Masters of Arts (MA) in Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, 1994. Masters of Arts (MA) in Philosophy, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Brazil, 1991. Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Journalism, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, 1985. Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Theology, Escola Superior de Teologia da IECLB, Brazil, 1985. APPOINTMENTS AT PRINCETON UNIVERSITY Susan Dod Brown Professor of Anthropology and Woodrow Wilson School Faculty Associate, 2010 to the present.

Professor of Anthropology, 2008-2010. Associate Professor of Anthropology, 2006-2008. Assistant Professor of Anthropology, 2001-2006.

Co-Director, Program in Global Health and Health Policy, 2009 to the present. Faculty Associate:

Center for Health and Wellbeing Center for the Study of Religion Department of Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Cultures Office of Population Research Princeton Institute of International and Regional Studies Princeton Environmental Institute Program in Latin American Studies

Program in Law and Public Affairs University Center for Human Values

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OTHER APPOINTMENTS Academic Advisory Panel and Senior Member, Center for Theological Inquiry, Princeton, 2009 to the present. Member, Center for Theological Inquiry, Princeton, 2008-2009. Member, School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, 2005-2006. Visiting Professor, École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), Paris, May 2004. Member, School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study, 2002-2003. National Institute of Mental Health Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University (Departments of Anthropology and Social Medicine and clinical training at the Palliative Care Service of the Massachusetts General Hospital), 1998-2000. Visiting Professor, Instituto de Saúde Coletiva, Universidade Federal da Bahia, 1996-1997. Teaching Assistant, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, 1995, 1997. Adjunct Professor, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, 1992, 1994. RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS Socio-cultural and Medical Anthropology; Social Studies of Science and Technology; Global Health; Culture and Mental Illness; HIV/AIDS; Pharmaceuticals; Health and Human Rights; Religion and Society; Subjectivity; Ethnographic Methods; Contemporary Social Theory; Latin American Societies; Brazil. AWARDS AND HONORS John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow Award, 2008-2009. President’s Distinguished Lecturer: “When People Come First: Social Innovation in Global Health,” Princeton University, March 2009. Old Dominion Faculty Fellow, Princeton University Council of the Humanities, 2007-2008, 2009-2010. 2008 Rudolph Virchow Rudolph Professional Article Award of the Society for Medical Anthropology for “Pharmaceuticalization: AIDS Treatment and Global Health Politics” (published in Anthropological Quarterly).

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Awards for the book Will to Live: AIDS Therapies and the Politics of Survival (Princeton University Press 2007):

2008 Wellcome Medal for Anthropology as Applied to Medical Problems, Wellcome Trust and Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland.

2008 Diana Forsythe Prize of the Committee on Science, Technology and Computing and the Society for the Anthropology of Work, American Anthropological Association.

Awards for the book Vita: Life in a Zone of Social Abandonment (University of California Press 2005):

2007 Margaret Mead Award, Society for Applied Anthropology and American Anthropological Association.

2006 Anthony Leeds Prize of the Society for Urban, National, and Transnational/Global Anthropology, American Anthropological Association. 2006 Stirling Prize of the Society for Psychological Anthropology, American Anthropological Association.

2006 Benjamin L. Hooks Outstanding Book Award, Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change.

2005 Eileen Basker Memorial Prize, Society for Medical Anthropology, American Anthropological Association.

2005 Honorable Mention, Victor Turner Prize for Ethnographic Writing, Society for Humanistic Anthropology, American Anthropological Association.

President’s Award for Distinguished Teaching, Princeton University, 2005. 2005 Rudolph Virchow Professional Article Award of the Society for Medical Anthropology for “The Activist State: Global Pharmaceuticals, AIDS, and Citizenship in Brazil” (published in Social Text). Harold Willis Dodds Presidential University Preceptorship, Princeton University, 2004-2006. Paulo Brossard Prize, Best Journalism Student, Secretariat of Education of the State of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, 1985.

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FUNDED RESEARCH Principal Investigator, “Demanding the Right to Health in Courts: AIDS Treatment Access, Drug Markets, and Citizenship in Brazil Today,” research funded by the Ford Foundation, 2009-2011. Principal Investigator, “Social Determinants of Health and the Future of Global AIDS Treatment,” research funded by Princeton University’s Grand Challenges Initiative on Global Health and Infectious Disease, 2008-2012. Co-Principal Investigator, “Pharmaceutical Aging,” research funded by Princeton University and the National Institutes of Health, 2011-2012. Principal Investigator, “The Development of the Brazilian AIDS Model,” research grant from the Program on Global Security and Sustainability of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, 2003-2004. Principal Investigator, “Pharmaceutical Governance,” Richard Carley Hunt Postdoctoral Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation, 2003-2005. Princeton University Committee on Research in the Humanities and the Social Sciences, research grants for the book project Vita, 2001, 2002, 2005. Princeton University Committee on Research in the Humanities and the Social Sciences, research grants for the book Project Will to Live, 2005, 2006. Program in Latin American Studies, Princeton University, summer research grants for the book projects Vita and The Valley of Lamentation, 2001-2007. The Crichton Fund, Department of Social Medicine, Harvard University, research grant for the project “Mental Illness in a Brazilian Zone of Social Abandonment,”1999. PhD dissertation research, “The Brazilian Control of HIV/AIDS,” funded by the Brazilian Council of Technological and Scientific Development (CNPq), 1996-1997. World Council of Churches and Instituto de Estudos da Religião (ISER), research grant for the project “A Trip through AIDS in Brazil,” 1992-1995. ACADEMIC FELLOWSHIPS AND SCHOLARSHIPS Membership Fellowship, Center for Theological Inquiry, 2008-2009. Membership Fellowship, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Germany, 2006-2007 (declined). Membership Fellowship, School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, 2005-2006.

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Harold Willis Dodds Presidential University Preceptorship, Princeton University, 2004-2006. Membership Fellowship, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Germany, 2003-2004 (declined). Membership Fellowship, School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study, 2002-2003. Postdoctoral Fellowship, National Institute of Mental Health, Harvard University, 1998-2000. Chancellor’s Dissertation Writing Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley, 1997-1998. Fellowship for Doctoral Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, Brazilian Council of Technological and Scientific Development (CNPq), 1993-1997. Newhall Graduate Fellowship, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, 1992-1993. Fellowship for Doctoral Studies at the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, Lutheran World Federation, 1991-1995. PUBLICATIONS Books in English Will to Live: AIDS Therapies and the Politics of Survival. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007. (Photographs by Torben Eskerod).

Paperback edition 2009. Subjectivity: Ethnographic Investigations (João Biehl, Byron Good, Arthur Kleinman). Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007.

Contributors: Amèlie O. Rorty, Arthur Kleinman and Erin Fitz-Henry, Veena Das and Ranendra Das, Paul Rabinow, Stephen Greenblatt, Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Allan Young, Byron Good, Ellen Corin, Anne Lovell, Evelyn Fox Keller, Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good, Eric Krakauer, João Biehl, Michael M. J. Fischer.

Vita: Life in a Zone of Social Abandonment. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. (Photographs by Torben Eskerod). Fourth reprinting 2010. Second Edition, With a New Afterword (forthcoming 2012). Portuguese translation, Editora da Universidade de São Paulo (forthcoming 2012).

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Book Manuscripts When People Come First: Evidence, Actuality and Theory in Global Health .João Biehl and Adriana Petryna (eds.). Under review at Princeton University Press.

Contributors: Vincanne Adams, Joseph Amon, João Biehl, Marcos Cueto, Stefan Ecks, Didier Fassin, Michael M.J. Fischer, Clara Han, Julie Livingstone, Amy Moran-Thomas, Adriana Petryna, James Pfeiffer, Ian Whitmarsh, Susan Reynolds Whyte, Michael Whyte.

Entre a Clínica e o Tribunal: Estudos sobre a Judicialização da Saúde no Brasil [Between the Clinic and the Court: Studies of the Judicialization of Health in Brazil]. Ingo W. Sarlet, João Biehl, Adriana Petryna (eds.), (in preparation). The Valley of Lamentation: The Mucker War in 19th Century Brazil (in preparation) Books in Portuguese Entre as Montanhas. (João Biehl, Sandro Blume, Rejane Ruppenthal). (“Between the Mountains”). Porto Alegre: Literalis, 2004. Antropologia da Razão: Ensaios de Paul Rabinow. (“The Anthropology of Reason: Essays by Paul Rabinow”). Editor and Translator, with an Introduction. Rio de Janeiro: Relume Dumará, 1999. (Second reprinting 2002). Clandestino: No Cotidiano e na Teologia. (“Clandestine: Theology and Ordinary Life ”). Petrópolis/São Leopoldo: Vozes/Sinodal, 1990. De Igual pra Igual: Um Diálogo Crítico entre a Teologia da Libertação e as Teologias Negra, Feminista e Pacifista. (“From Equal to Equal: A Critical Dialogue between Latin American Liberation Theology and Black, Feminist and Pacifist Theologies”). Petrópolis/São Leopoldo: Vozes/Sinodal, 1987. Tudo a Ver: Uma Viagem Sem Roteiros pela América do Sul. (“All to See: A Journey through South America”). São Leopoldo: Sinodal, 1987. Articles in Refereed Journals “Anthropology in the Field of Global Health.” Horizontes Antropológicos (special issue: “Science, Ethics and Power” edited by Claudia Fonseca), 2011, 17(35):257-296. “Homo Economicus & Life Markets.” Medical Anthropology Quarterly (special issue: “After Progress” edited by Sharon Kauffman and S.Lochlann Jain), 2011, 25: 278–284.

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“Deleuze and the Anthropology of Becoming” (with Peter Locke). Current Anthropology, 2010, 51(3):317-351 (with comments and a reply). “Judicialisation and the Right to Health in Brazil” (Biehl J, Petryna A, Gertner A, Amon JJ, Picon PD). The Lancet, 2009, 373: 2182-84. “Accès du traitement du sida, marches des medicaments et citoyenneté dans le Brésil d’aujourd’hui.” (“AIDS Treatment Access, Drug Markets, and Citizenship in Brazil Today”). Sciences Sociales et Santé, 2009, 27(3): 13-46. “Symptom: Subjectivities, Social Ills, Technologies” (with Amy Moran-Thomas). Annual Review of Anthropology, 2009, 38: 267-88. “Antropologia do Devir: Psicofármacos — Abandono Social — Desejo” (“Anthropology of Becoming: Psychopharmaceuticals — Social Abandonment — Desire”). Revista de Antropologia, 2008, 51(2):413-449. “Drugs for All: The Future of Global AIDS Treatment.” Medical Anthropology, 2008, 27(2)1-7. “Lifelong AIDS: Markets, Politics, Survival in Brazil.” LASA Forum, 2008, 39(2):14-17.

“Desire and the Social Subject” (A Commentary). Current Anthropology, 2008, 49(2):235-36. “Pharmaceuticalization: AIDS Treatment and Global Health Politics.” Anthropological Quarterly, 2007, 80(4):1083-1126. “Ex-Human: Reflections on Vita: Life in a Zone of Social Abandonment.” City & Society, 2007, 19(1):81-85. “Will To Live: AIDS Drugs and Local Economies of Salvation” (a photographic essay with Torben Eskerod). Public Culture, 2006, 18(3):457-472. “Life of the Mind: The Interface of Psychopharmaceuticals, Domestic Economies, and Social Abandonment.” American Ethnologist, 2004, 31 (4): 475-496. “The Activist State: Global Pharmaceuticals, AIDS, and Citizenship in Brazil.” Social Text, 2004, 22(3):105-132. “Práticas Médicas de Aceitação da Morte na UTI de um Hospital Geral do Nordeste do Brasil” (with Esdras Cabus Moreira). (“Medical Practices and the Acceptance of Death in the Intensive Care Unit of a General Hospital in Northeastern Brazil”). Bioética [a journal of the Brazilian Medical Association], 2004, 12(1): 19-30. “Technology and Affect: HIV/AIDS Testing in Brazil” (with Denise Coutinho and Ana Luzia Outeiro). Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, 2001, 25(1): 87-129. “Vita: Life in a Zone of Social Abandonment.” Social Text, 2001, 19(3): 131-149.

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“Jammerthal, the Valley of Lamentation: Kultur, War Trauma and Subjectivity in 19th Century Brazil.” Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, 1999, 8(2): 171-198. Book Chapters “Patient Value.” In Cash on the Table edited by Edward F. Fischer and Peter Benson. Santa Fe, NM: SAR Press, 2012. “CATKINE … Asylum, Laboratory, Pharmacy, Pharmacist, I and the Cure: Pharmaceutical Subjectivity in the Global South.” In Pharmaceutical Self and Imaginary: Psychopharmacology in a Globalizing World edited by Janis Jenkins. Santa Fe, NM: SAR Press, 2011, pp.67-96. “When People Come First: Beyond Technical and Theoretical Quick Fixes in Global Health.” In Global Political Ecology edited by Richard Peet, Paul Robbins, Michael Watts. London: Routledge, 2011. pp.100-130. “‘Medication Is Me Now’: Human Values and Political Life in the Wake of Global AIDS Treatment.” In In the Name of Humanity: The Government of Threat and Care edited by Ilana Feldman and Miriam Ticktin. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2010, pp.151-189. “Human Pharmakon: Symptoms, Technologies, Subjectivities.” In A Reader in Medical Anthropology: Theoretical Trajectories, Emergent Realities edited by Byron Good, Michael M.J. Fischer, Sarah Willen, Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010, pp.213-231. “The Brazilian Response to AIDS and the Pharmaceuticalization of Global Health.” In Anthropology and Public Health: Bridging Differences in Culture and Society (second edition) edited by Robert A. Hahn and Marcia Inhorn. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2008, pp.480-511. “The Mucker War: A History of Violence and Silence.” In Postcolonial Disorders edited by Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good, Sandra T. Hyde, Sarah Pinto, and Byron Good. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008, pp.279-308. “Introduction: Rethinking Subjectivity” (João Biehl, Byron Good, Arthur Kleinman). In Subjectivity: Ethnographic Investigations edited by Biehl, Good, Kleinman. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007, pp.1-23. “A Life: Between Psychiatric Drugs and Social Abandonment.” In Subjectivity: Ethnographic Investigations edited by Biehl, Good, Kleinman. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007, pp.397-421. “Pharmaceutical Governance.” In Global Pharmaceuticals: Ethics, Markets, Practices edited by Adriana Petryna, Andrew Lakoff, and Arthur Kleinman. Durham: Duke University Press, 2006, pp.206-239.

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“Technologies of Invisibility: The Politics of Life and Social Inequality.” In Anthropologies of Modernity: Foucault, Governmentality, and Life Politics, edited by Jonathan Xavier Inda. London: Blackwell, 2005, pp. 248-271. “Ciência, Tecnologia e Saúde Mental” (“Science, Technology and Mental Health”). In Tecnologias do Corpo: Uma Anthropologia das Medicinas no Brasil (“Technologies of the Body: An Anthropology of Medical Practices in Brazil”), edited by Annette Leibing. Rio de Janeiro: Nau Editora, 2003, pp.19-35. “O Fim do Corpo: Comércio de Órgãos para Transplantes Cirúrgicos” (with Nancy Scheper-Hughes). (“The End of the Body: The Commerce of Organs for Surgical Transplantation”). In Políticas do Corpo e o Curso da Vida, edited by Guita Debert and Donna Goldstein. São Paulo: Sumaré, 2000, pp.49-81. “A Guerra dos Imigrantes: O Espírito Alemão e o Estranho Mucker no Sul do Brasil.” (“The War of the Immigrants: The German Spirit and the Uncanny Mucker in Southern Brazil”). In Colonização e Psicanálise, edited by Edson L.A. de Sousa. Porto Alegre: Artes e Ofícios, 1999, pp.148-168. “Região Nordeste” (with Dourado MIC, Barreto ML, Almeida-Filho N, Cunha S). (“HIV/AIDS in Brazil’s Northeastern Region”). In Situação e Tendências da Epidemia de HIV/AIDS no Brasil. Brasília: Coordenação de DST/AIDS, 1997, pp. 123-144. “Uma Tribo Que Pensa e Negocia em Alemão.” (“A Tribe That Thinks and Trades in German”). In Nós, os Teuto-Gaúchos, edited by René Gertz and Luiz A. Fischer. Porto Alegre: Editora da UFRGS, 1996, pp. 227-236. Book Reviews and Other Publications “Having an Idea in Anthropology Today.” Kroeber Anthropological Society Papers, 2011, No. 100. pp.20-24. “Political Theology and War in Postcolonial Brazil.” The Commons, Center for Theological Inquiry, 2010. “Lifelong AIDS: Markets, Politics, Survival in Brazil.” LASA Forum, 2008, 39(2). “Desire and the Social Subject” (A Commentary). Current Anthropology, 2008, 49(2):235-36. “A Vida Cotidiana das Palavras: A História de Catarina.” (“The Ordinary Life of Words: Catarina’s Story”). Correio da APPOA 2005, 140: 14-29. “Saints: Their Immanence and Poetics” (review essay of Robert A. Orsi’s book “Between Heaven and Earth: The Religious Worlds People Make and the Scholars Who Study Them” (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005). In Anthropological Quarterly, 2005, 78(4): 1005-1007.

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Book Review: Paul E. Brodwin (ed.). “Biotechnology and Culture: Bodies, Anxieties and Ethics.” Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2000. In American Ethnologist, 2003, 30 (4):621-622. “Biotechnology and the New Politics of Life and Death in Brazil: The AIDS Model.” Princeton Journal of Bioethics, 2002, 5:59-74. “Social Death.” Book Review: Tobias Hecht. “At Home in the Street.” Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. In Anthropological Quarterly, 2001, 74(3):147-148. “Cultura e Poder no Tempo dos Mucker.” (“Culture and Power In the Time of the Mucker”). Jahrbuch 2002 Institut Martius-Staden, 49:162-181. “Tecnociência e Subjectividade.” (“Technoscience and Subjectivity). Revista da Associação Psicanalítica de Porto Alegre, 2001, 20:124-132. “Photography in the Field of the Unconscious.” Torben Eskerod. Ansigter [Faces]. Copenhagen: Rhodos, 1997. (Introduction to Eskerod’s photographic book, English and Danish). “O Estádio Clínico: A Constituição de uma Criança Inválida.” (with Adriana Petryna). Revista da Associação Psicanalítica de Porto Alegre, 1997, 7(13):83-101. “Apontamentos para uma Arqueologia dos Mucker.” (“Notes for an Archeology of the Mucker”). Revista da Associação Psicanalítica de Porto Alegre, 1994, 4(10): 74-78. “Recozinhando-se Deslocadamente: Anotações sobre Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, Rigoberta Menchu e Modernidade.” (“Displacement and Self-fashioning: Notes on the Modernity of Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz and Rigoberta Menchu”). Estudos Teológicos, 1992, 32 (2). “E a natureza se tornará artificial.” (“Nature Will Be Artificial”—Interview with Paul Rabinow). Ciência e Meio Ambiente, 1991, 2 (3). “Fotos Não Muito Nítidas.” (“Images Out of Focus”). Comunicações do ISER, 1990, 9(36): 75-86 (special issue: Transformations in Eastern Europe). Documentary Film Screenplay Antártida, o Último Continente (“Antarctica, the Last Continent”) directed by Monica Schmiedt and Alberto Salvá, Brazil, 1997. Screenplay by Monica Schmiedt, João Biehl, and Alberto Salvá. Visual Anthropology Exhibitions (with photographer Torben Eskerod) Bodies of Rights & Medicines

Bernstein Gallery, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University, 2012.

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Will to Live Labyrinth Bookstore, Princeton, NJ, 2008.

Program in Latin American Studies, Aaron Burr Hall, Princeton University, 2008. Guggenheim Gallery of Whitman College, Princeton University, 2008. Bernstein Gallery, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University, 2004.

Vita

Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, 1997. Program in Medical Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, 1996

The Valley of Lamentation Department of Rhetoric, University of California, Berkeley, 1992. Escola Superior de Teologia da IECLB, São Leopoldo, Brazil, 1992. INVITED LECTURES AND PRESENTATIONS “Forms of Cultural Critique and New Biological and Ecological Sensibilities.” Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Celebration of Anthropology as Cultural Critique, MIT, October 2011. Marvin Harris Lecture: “The Juridical Hospital: Claiming the Right to Health in Brazilian Courts.” University of Florida, January 2011. “Right to Heath Litigation: Technology Access and privatized Health in Brazil.” Social Science and Policy Seminar Series, World Bank, Washington, D.C., March 2011. “Words and Worlds Within and a Portrait of Arthur Kleinman,” Symposium: From Social Suffering to Caregiving, Harvard University, March 2011 “Claiming the Right to Health in Courts in Brazil.” Seminar: Health and Citizenship, Danish Research School of Anthropology and Ethnography, University of Copenhagen, June 2010. “Right to Health Litigation in Brazil.” Human Rights Watch, New York, June 2010. “Life of the Mind: Psychopharmaceuticals and Social Abandonment.” Conference Cultural and Biological Contexts of Psychiatric Disorder: Implications for Diagnosis and Treatment. University of California, Los Angeles, January 2010. “Vita: Life in a Zone of Social Abandonment.” Center for Theological Inquiry, May 2009. “The Anthropology of Subjectivity.” Conference Scaling the Ethnographic, New School for Social Research, April 2009.

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“Psychopharmaceuticals, Subjectivity, and Literature.” Psychoanalytical Association of Porto Alegre, Brazil, August 2008. “The Pharmaceuticalization of Public Health.” Seminar Políticas de saúde e evidência científica: Acesso aos medicamentos de alto custo. Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, Brazil, August 2008. “The Will to Live: AIDS Therapies and the Politics of Survival” (keynote lecture). International conference The Social Coordinates of Illness in Post-Colonial Africa, Duke University, October 2008. “‘Medication Is Me Now’: Human Relations and Political Life in the Wake of Global AIDS Treatment Programs.” University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, September 2008. “The Judiciary and the Right to Health.” Seminar Medicamentos via justiça: Reflexões técnicas, éticas e políticas. Secretaria da Saúde e Procuradoria Geral do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul, August 2008. “Human Values in the Bio-Economic Government of AIDS.” Department of Anthropology, Stanford University, May 2008. “How Does a Human Being Disappear.” Lecture Series: Project Absentia. Department of History, Stanford University, May 2008. “Will to Live: AIDS Therapies and the Politics of Survival.” Brown University, April 2008. “Medication Is Me Now.” Medical Anthropology Seminar, Harvard University, March 2008. “Drugs for All: AIDS, Global Health Markets, and the Politics of Survival.” Department of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania, February 2008. “Pharmaceuticalization: Brazil’s AIDS Treatment Rollout and the New World of Global Health.” David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies and Brazil Studies Program, Harvard University, March 2007. “A Life: Between Psychiatric Drugs and Social Abandonment.” NIMH Postdoctoral Mental Health Seminar, Rutgers University, March 2007. “Reflections on Vita: Life in a Zone of Social Abandonment.” Program in Women’s Studies and the Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan, November 2006. “AIDS Therapies and the Politics of Survival.” Department of Anthropology, Columbia University, October 2006. “Free Trade, AIDS Drugs, and Activism.” Department of Anthropology and the Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University, April 2006.

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“Deleuze and the Maps of Children.” Department of Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University, December 2005. “The Right to a Nonprojected Future: Treating AIDS in Brazil.” Department of Anthropology, New School for Social Research, November 2005. “Vita: Life in a Zone of Social Abandonment.” New York Academy of Arts and Sciences, New York, October 2005. “The Ordinary Life of Words: Catarina’s History.” Psychoanalytical Association of Porto Alegre, Brazil, August 2005. “Life of the Mind: Psychopharmaceuticals and Social Abandonment.” Department of Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University, October 2004. “Treating AIDS in Brazil” (keynote lecture). International conference Life and Death in a Time of AIDS, Institute for Social and Economic Research of the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, October 2004. “Social Abandonment and Gene Expression.” Department of Genetics of the Hospital das Clinicas, Porto Alegre, Brazil, August 2004. “Life in a Zone of Social Abandonment” and “Refiguring Family, Medicine, and the State in Brazil.” Lectures at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), Paris, May 2004. “Global Politics and the Control of AIDS in Brazil.” Conference Politics of Life at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), Paris, June 2004. “The Anthropology of a Life Ripped Off of Its Humanity,” Department of Anthropology, Haverford College, April 2004. “Commercial Science, State, and New Patient Populations in Brazil.” Ethnohistory Workshop, Department of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania, January 2004. “Anthropology in a Zone of Social Abandonment.” Science, Technology and Society Program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, November 2003. “Pharmaceutical Ties: Family, Medicine, and the State in Brazil.” Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago, June 2003. “Science, Politics, and Ethics in the Brazilian AIDS World.” Graduate Student Workshop: Science, Technology, Society, and the State, University of Chicago, June 2003. “AIDS in Brazil.” The Brazil Seminar, Columbia University, New York, February 2003. “Pharmaceutical Governance: A Critique of the Brazilian AIDS Model.” School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, January 2003.

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“German Enlightenment and Civil War in 19th Century Brazil.” Keynote lecture of the Annual Meeting of the Brazilian Society for the Study of German Immigration, Nova Petrópolis, Brazil, November 2001. “The Mucker War: Trials of German Religion and Reason in 19th Century Brazil.” Medical Anthropology and Cultural Psychiatry Seminar, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University, October 2000. “Biotechnology and the New Politics of Life and Death in Brazil.” Program in Science, Technology and Society, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, February 2000. “Biosocial Movements in Brazil.” Medical Anthropology and Cultural Psychiatry Seminar, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University, May 1999. “The Mucker War: The Use and Abuse of History in 19th Century Brazil.” Medical Anthropology Seminar Series, University of California at Berkeley, November 1997. “Pastoral Power.” Interdisciplinary Seminar, European University, St. Petersburg, Russia, June 1996. CONFERENCE PAPERS AND INVITED SEMINARS “The Precariousness of Lives and the Anthropologist As Artist Manqué.” Executive Session: On Lived Experience and Human Conditions: The Works of Arthur Kleinman, Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Montreal, November 2011. “Bodies of Rights and Therapeutic Markets.” Conference: Ciências na Vida, UFRGS, Porto Alegre, Brazil, August 2011. “The Juridical Hospital.” Workshop on the Intersections of Law and Medicine, University of Edinburgh, May 2011. “Human Becomings and Having an Idea in Anthropology Today Theory.” Workshop on Anthropology and Philosophy, Harvard University, April 2011. “The Mucker War.” Seminar: International Law, Human Rights and the Politics of Religious Difference,Princeton University, April 2011. “Bodies of Rights and Therapeutic Markets.” Conference: The Body and the State, New School for Social Research, February 2011. “The Anthropology of Becoming.” Invited Session, Society for Cultural Anthropology: Deleuze and Anthropology. Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, New Orleans, November 2010.

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“The Art of Ethnography.” Invited Session, AAA Executive Program Committee: Purposes, Challenges, and Futures of Ethnographic Research and Writing. Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Philadelphia, PA, December 2009. “When People Come First: Technical Fixes and Social Innovation in the World/Market of Global Health.” Advanced Seminar on Markets and Moralities organized by Edward Fischer and Peter Benson, School for Advanced Research, May 2009. “The Judicialization of the Right to Health.” International Seminar Labour, Value, Class and Experimentation, the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, February 2009. “Deleuze and the Anthropology of Becoming” (with Peter Locke). International Conference: What Is at Stake in the Ethnography of Human Experience?, Emory University, September 2008. “Will to Live.” International Conference on Global Values for Global Health. University of California, Berkeley, May 2008. “Pharmaceuticalization.” Invited session, Society for Medical Anthropology: Bodies and Economies: Ethnographies of Value in Biomedicine and Global Health. Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, D.C., December 2007. “CATKINE … Asylum, Laboratory, Pharmacy, Pharmacist, I and the Cure: The Discourse of the Pharmacological Subject.” Advanced Seminar on Psychopharmacology and Globalization organized by Janis Jenkins, School for Advanced Research, October 2007. “Institutional Practices Shaping AIDS Treatment Rollout and Adherence in Brazil.” Session: Structural Violence and Medical Anthropology. Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, San Jose, CA, November 2006. “The Politics of Survival: AIDS Post-Treatment Access in Brazil.” Seminar: The Social Impacts of ARV Scale Up: Developing an Interdisciplinary Research Agenda, School of Public Health, Columbia University, September 2006. “Pharmaceutical Globalization and Local Economies of Salvation.” Seminar: Affect in Political Life. Cambridge University, England, April 2006. “Pharmaceutical Globalization and Local Economies of Salvation.” Invited session: Science and Religion between the Past and the future. Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington DC, December 2005. “Neoliberal Arts of Governing.” Seminar: Government and Humanity organized by Miriam Ticktin and Ilana Feldman, New York University, April 2005. “Global Pharmaceuticals and New Patient Populations.” Session: Commercial Science, State, and Patient Populations. Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Chicago, November 2003.

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“Biotechnological Governance.” Conference: Future Matters: Technoscience, Global Politics and Cultural Criticism. The Center for the Study of Women and Society and the Graduate Center, CUNY, New York, April 2003. “Subjectivity and Governance.” Session: How to Understand Human Subjectivities. Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, New Orleans, November 2002. “Technologies of Invisibility.” Conference: Violence, Law, and the Limits of Justice. Barnard College, New York, March 2002. “Vita: Life in a Dead Language.” Session: Subjectivity Transformed. Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, D.C., November 2001. “The Technical and Political Control of AIDS in Brazil.” Plenary Session: Science, Technology, and the State. Annual Meeting of the Society for the Social Studies of Science, Cambridge, November 2001. “Social Psychosis/Society of Bodies.” Conference: Culture in Mental Health Services Research: Conceptual and Methodological Challenges. Department of Social Medicine and Department of Anthropology, Harvard University, Cambridge, May 2001. “The Automatic Life of that Artificial Human: HIV/AIDS Testing in Brazil.” Session: Technology, Governmentality, and Affect in the Globalizing Public Sphere. Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, November 2000. “Science and Subjectivity.” Session: Issues in Medical Testing. Annual Meeting of the Society for the Social Studies of Science and the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology, Vienna, Austria, September 2000. “Reason and War Trauma.” Session: Anthropologies of Trauma. Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Chicago, November 1999. “A Dependência do Sujeito” (“The Dependence of the Subject”). Conference: Leituras do Sintoma Social no Brazil. Departamento de Psicologia da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil, June 1997. LECTURE AND CONFERENCE DISCUSSANT Session: Sensing Precarity, Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Montreal, November 2011. Presidential Session: Global Circulation of Public Culture: Engaging with the Vision of Carol Breckenridge, Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, New Orleans, LO, November 2010.

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Session: After Progress, After Survival: Improbable Futures in Clinical Spaces. The Society for Medical Anthropology Conference, Medical Anthropology at the Intersections: Celebrating 50 Years of Interdisciplinarity, Yale University, September 2009. Invited Session: The End/s of the Anthropology of Technoscience: Celebrating 10 Years of the Diana Forsythe Prize, Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Philadelphia, PA, December 2009. Session: AIDS Programs and Funding: Who Sets the Agendas? International Conference: Global Values for Global Health. University of California, Berkeley, May 2008. Invited Session: Twenty Years of the Basker Prize: Winners Reflect on Gender, Feminism and Health and Their Near Futures. Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, D.C., December 2007. Conference: Global Health Governance. São Paulo, Brazil, June 2005. Conference: Corporate and Legal Implications of Re-pricing Medicines in Developing Nations. University of Pennsylvania Law School, February 2004. Session: Trauma Sites and Narratives as Means of Reconciliation. Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Chicago, 2003. Conference: Globalization and Biopharmaceuticals. Department of Anthropology, Harvard University, May 2002. Session: Institutions, Bodies, Boundaries of Selves. Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, New Orleans, November 2002. Session: Rethinking Sovereignty: Theorizing in a Global Context. Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, D.C., November 2001. The Roger Allan Moore Lectures by Theresa O’Nell (“Culture and Pathology”) and Thomas Csordas (“Healing and the Human Condition”). Harvard Medical School, May 2001. CONFERENCE ABSTRACTS “Court decisions and pharmaceutical policy in Brazil: Odds for the patients and for the state” (with Picon PD, Gonzalez RS, Picon RV, Terra CD, Gertner A, Barbosa J, Socal M, Gonçalvez J, Petryna A). Health Technology Assessment International (HTAi) Annual Meeting, Dublin, Ireland, May 2010. “Judicialization of access to high cost medicines in southern Brazil” (with Terra CD, Picon PD, Barbosa J, Picon RV, Gonzalez RS, Machado C, Gertner A, A). Health Technology Assessment International (HTAi) Annual Meeting, Dublin, Ireland, May 2010.

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“The impact of plaintiff economic status on access to the legal system: Suing the state ofr medicines in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil,” (with Picon PD, Gonzalez RS, Picon RV, Terra CD, Gertner A, Barbosa J, Socal M, Jardim PM, Petryna A). Health Technology Assessment International (HTAi) Annual Meeting, Dublin, Ireland, May 2010. “An Analysis of Claims of Irreparable Harm in Lawsuits for Access to Medicines in the State of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil” (with Terra CAD, Amaral TT, Picon RVC, Socal MP, Gertner A, Dall’Acqua P, Picon PD). Health Technology Assessment International (HTAi) Annual Meeting, Singapore, June 2009. “Claiming the Right to Medicines in Brazil through Public and Private Doctors and Lawyers: A Pilot Study” (with Picon RV, Sueiro AP, Peres HB, Socal MP, Gertner A, Azeredo L, Pereira J, Petryna A, Picon PD). Health Technology Assessment International (HTAi) Annual Meeting, Singapore, June 2009. “Demanding Treatment Access through Regular Administrative Pathways and through Lawsuits in Brazil: A Pilot Study” (with Socal MP, Gertner A, Petryna A, Picon RV, Pereira CR, Gonçalves J, Jardim P, Picon PD). Health Technology Assessment International (HTAi) Annual Meeting, Singapore, June 2009. “Lawsuits for Access to High-cost Medicines Might Disorganize and Reduce Access to Priority Public Health Programs in Brazil” (with Terra CAD, Picon RV, Amaral TT, Silva AFP, Gertner A, Socal MP, Martins LM, Picon PD). Health Technology Assessment International (HTAi) Annual Meeting, Singapore, June 2009. “Most Frequently Requested Pharmaceuticals through Judicial Claims in Brazil and Most Commonly Reported Diseases” (with Silva AFP, Pereira CR, Sueiro AP, Peres HB, Picon RV, Socal MP, Gertner A, Picon PD). Health Technology Assessment International (HTAi) Annual Meeting, Singapore, June 2009. ORGANIZATION OF WORKSHOPS, SESSIONS, LECTURES Co-organizer, Global Health Colloquium, Princeton University, Fall 2011. Speakers: Harley Feldbaum, Mary Olive Smith, Kate Grant, Byron J. Good, Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good. Sponsored by the Program in Global Health and Health Policy and Health Grand Challenges Initiative. Co-organizer, The Arts in Global Health (Student Artwork), Bernstein Gallery, Princeton University, Spring 2011. Co-organizer, Global Health Colloquium, Princeton University, Spring 2011. Speakers: Keith Wailoo, Damian Schuman, João Moreira Salles, Joseph J. Amon, Johan Pottier. Sponsored by the Program in Global Health and Health Policy and Health Grand Challenges Initiative.

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Co-organizer, Global Health Colloquium, Princeton University, Fall 2010. Speakers: Michael Porter, Lynn Freedman, Jeremy Farrar, Julie Livingstone. Sponsored by the Program in Global Health and Health Policy and Health Grand Challenges Initiative. Co-organizer, Global Health Colloquium, Princeton University, Spring 2010. Speakers: Angus Deaton, Didier Fassin, Arachu Castro. Sponsored by the Program in Global Health and Health Policy and Health Grand Challenges Initiative. Co-organizer, International Conference: “The Judiciary and the Right to Health,” Princeton University, March 2010. Sponsored by the Center for Health and Wellbeing and the Program in Law and Public Affairs. Organizer, International Exploratory Seminar: “When People Come First: Anthropology and Social Innovation in the Field of Global Health,” Princeton University, March 2010. Sponsored by the Princeton Institute of International and Regional Studies and Princeton’s Health Grand Challenges Initiative. Co-organizer, Workshop: “The Judicialization of the Right to Health.” AJURIS, Porto Alegre, Brazil, August 2009. Sponsored by the Ford Foundation and the Princeton’s Health Grand Challenges Initiative. Organizer, Workshop: “Treatment Access and the Right to Health,” April 2009. Sponsored by the Princeton Grand Challenges Initiative, the Center for Health and Wellbeing and the Department of Anthropology. Organizer, Special Lecture: “Redefining Global Health Care Delivery” by Michael Porter, April 2009. Sponsored by the Princeton Grand Challenges Initiative, the Center for Health and Wellbeing and the Department of Anthropology. Organizer, Seminar: “Making a Difference in Global Health: from Princeton to Partners in Health, Rwanda” with Patrick Lee, November 2008. Sponsored by the Princeton Grand Challenges Initiative, the Center for Health and Wellbeing and the Department of Anthropology. Co-organizer, Invited Session: “Collaborations, Experiments, and Care: At the Frontiers of Science and Medicine.” Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, November 2008. Organizer, International Workshop: “The Future of Global AIDS Treatment.” Princeton University, April 2008. Sponsored by the Princeton Grand Challenges Initiative and the Center for Health and Wellbeing. Co-organizer, Invited Session: “Bodies and Economies: Ethnographies of Value in Biomedicine and Global Health.” Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, D.C., December 2007. Co-organizer, Lecture Series: “Global AIDS Treatment.” Speakers: Jennifer Hirsch, João Biehl, Susan Reynolds Whyte, Helen Epstein, Joseph Amon, and Sofia Gruskin. Sponsored

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by the Department of Anthropology, Center for Health and Wellbeing, and the Princeton AIDS Initiative, Spring 2007. Co-organizer, Special Lecture: “Synthetic Biology” by Paul Rabinow, sponsored by the Department of Anthropology and the University Center for Human Values, November 2007. Organizer, Special Lecture: “Regimes of Truth: The Demand for Bodily Evidence in French Asylum Policies” by Didier Fassin, sponsored by the Center for Health and Wellbeing and the Department of Anthropology, October 2005. Organizer, Seminar: “The Experience and Politics of AIDS in South Africa” with Didier Fassin, sponsored by the Center for Health and Wellbeing and the Department of Anthropology, October 2005. Organizer, Special Lecture: “Disengaging Ethnography: The Challenge of Fieldwork among Indigenous Peoples” by Alcida Ramos.” Sponsored by the Program in Latin American Studies and the Department of Anthropology, April 2005. Organizer, Special Lecture: “Global Equity and the Future of Public Health” by Paul Farmer. Sponsored by the Program in Latin American Studies, the Department of Anthropology, the Center for Health and Wellbeing, the University Center for Human Values, and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, December 2004. Organizer Lecture Series: “Life Technologies: Medicine, Culture, and Ethics.” Speakers: Arthur Kleinman, Lawrence Cohen, Margaret Lock, Robert Truog, Rayna Rapp, Marilyn Strathern. Discussants: Elaine Pagels, Carl Elliot, Carolyn Bynum, Shirley Tilghman, Peter Singer. Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Religion, Department of Anthropology, Center for Health and Wellbeing, and the University Center for Human Values, Spring 2004. Co-organizer, Session: “Commercial Science, State, and Patient Populations.” Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Chicago, November 2003. Organizer, Roundtable Discussion: “Pharmaceuticals Futures.” Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, New Orleans, November 2002. Organizer, Special Lecture: “Pharmaceuticals in the Register of the Local: Urban Poverty and Health in Delhi, India” by Veena Das. Sponsored by the Center for Health and Wellbeing and the Department of Anthropology, November 2002. Organizer, Session: “Subjectivity Transformed.” Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, D.C., November 2001. Organizer, Session: “Technology, Governmentality, and Affect in the Globalizing Public Sphere.” Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, November 2000.

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Organizer, Medical Anthropology Seminar: “Transformations in Social Experience and Subjectivity.” Department of Anthropology and Department of Social Medicine, Harvard University (funded by the National Institute of Mental Health), 1999-2000. TEACHING AND ADVISING Undergraduate and Graduate Courses Taught at Princeton University

• Critical Perspectives in Global Health and Health Policy (GHP 351/WWS 491/ANT 351), Spring and Fall 2010; Fall 2011.

• Medical Anthropology (ANT 335), Spring 2001; Fall 2001, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2009; Spring 2012.

• Foucault, Deleuze and Anthropology Today (ANT 522B), Spring 2012. • Ethnography and Social Theory Today (with Didier Fassin) (ANT 541), Fall 2010. • Religion and Medicine (ANT/REL 228), Fall 2009. • The Anthropology of Globalization (ANT 570), Spring 2008. • Global Pharmaceuticals: Science, Political Economy, Ethics (ANT 405), Spring 2005;

2007. • Cultures of Globalization (ANT 220), Spring 2007. • Theory in Contemporary Anthropology (ANT 570), Spring 2005. • Introduction to Anthropology (ANT 201), Spring 2004. • Social Movements in Latin America (ANT 405/LAS 405), Spring 2004. • Graduate Student Grant Writing Workshop, Fall 2003. • Cultures of Science and Technology (ANT 245), Spring 2002. • Subjectivity: Explorations in Anthropology, Psychoanalysis, and Psychiatry (ANT

435), Spring 2002. • Science, Culture, and Power (ANT 415), Spring 2001.

Other Courses

• The Anthropology of AIDS, Instituto de Saúde Coletiva (ISC), Salvador, Brazil, 1996 (graduate seminar).

• Body, Culture, and Power, Colégio de Psicanálise da Bahia, Salvador, Brazil (graduate seminar).

• Religious Movements in Latin America, Graduate Theological Seminary, Berkeley, 1994, (graduate seminar).

• Representations of Conquest and Resistance in Latin American History, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, 1992 (graduate seminar).

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PhD Dissertations Advised Kristine Latta, Dissertation in Anthropology: “Merchant moralities: Indigenous economy and ethical work in Otavalo, Ecuador” (PhD May 2011). Associate Director, Hall Center for the Humanities, University of Kansas. Jessica Zuchowski, Dissertation in Anthropology: “Comparing access: Health care structures and women with chronic pain illness in the United States and the United Kingdom” (PhD May 2011). Peter A. Locke, Dissertation in Anthropology: “City of Survivors: Trauma, Grief, and Getting By in Post-War Sarajevo” (PhD September 2009). Postdoctoral Fellow, Princeton University. Ari M. Samsky, Dissertation in Anthropology: “Topographies of Need: Humanitarianism, Science, and the Market in Two International Drug Donation Programs” (PhD May 2009). Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Iowa. Christopher Garces, Dissertation in Anthropology: “Whither Charity? Andean Catholic Politics and the Securalization of Sacrifice” (PhD May 2009). Assistant Professor, Cornell University. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Cornell University. William Garriott, Dissertation in Anthropology: “A Body on Drugs: The Addict as a Criminal Type in the American Meth Epidemic” (PhD October 2008). Assistant Professor, James Madison University. Ian Whitmarsh, Dissertation in Anthropology: “Biomedical Ambivalence: Asthma, Race, and Nation in an International Genetic Study” (PhD 2005). Assistant Professor, University of California San Francisco. Postdoctoral Fellow, MIT and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Sarah Pinto, Dissertation in Anthropology: “Casting Desire: Reproduction, Loss, and Subjectivity in Rural North India” (PhD 2003). Assistant Professor, Tufts University. Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University. Sardar Patel Award for the Best Dissertation on Modern India (UCLA). Kavita Misra, Dissertation in Anthropology: “A Safe Space: AIDS and New Sociality in an Indian Setting” (PhD 2003). Associate Research Scholar, Columbia University. Postdoctoral Fellow, Yale University. Alexander Edmonds, Dissertation in Anthropology: “New Bodies, New Markets: An Ethnography of Brazil’s Beauty Industry” (PhD 2002). Assistant Professor, University of Amsterdam. Assistant Professor, Macquarie University. Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California Los Angeles.

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PhD Dissertation Committee Member Bridget Purcell, Department of Anthropology, Princeton University (religion and state development in Turkey—dissertation writing). Carolyn Eisert, Dissertation in History of Science, Princeton University (expected 2012). Luiz Nascimento, Program in Religion and Society, Princeton Theological Seminary (expected 2012). Lotte Buch. Dissertation in Anthropology, University of Copenhagen: “Uncanny Affect: Relations, Enduring Absence and the Ordinary in Families of Detainees in the Occupied Palestinian Territory” (PhD 2010). Adriana Garriga-López, Dissertation in Anthropology, Columbia University: “Vital Citizens: The Coloniality of HIV/AIDS in Puerto Rico” (PhD 2010). Eva Harman, Department of Anthropology, Princeton University (post-war social life in Liberia—general examination 2010). Erin Fitz-Henry. Dissertation in Anthropology, Princeton University: “Municipalizing Sovereignty: The U.S. Air Force in Manta, Ecuador” (PhD 2009). Lecturer, Princeton University. Leo C. Coleman, Dissertation in Anthropology, Princeton University: “Delhi in the Electrical Age: Technologies of Rule and Rites of Power in India’s Capital, 1903-2006” (PhD 2008). Assistant Professor, Ohio State University. Krysten Drybread, Dissertation in Anthropology, Columbia University: “Funeral Rites and Street Children in Brazil” (PhD 2008). Lecturer, Columbia University. Kenneth D. Croes, Dissertation in Anthropology, Princeton University: “Nature of a Nation: Monarchy, Development, and Culture and Nepal’s Annapurna Conservation Area Project” (PhD 2007). Researcher, University of Wisconsin, Madison. Eugene Raikhel, Dissertation in Anthropology: “Governing Habits: Addiction and the Therapeutic Market in Russia” (PhD 2006). Assistant Professor, University of Chicago. Postdoctoral Fellow, McGill University. Postdoctoral Fellow, Columbia University. Aslihan Sanal, Dissertation in Science, Technology, and Society, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT): “Flesh Yours, Bones Mine: The Making of the Biomedical Subject in Turkey” (PhD 2005).

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Aungo Justus, Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology of the Central European University (HIV/AIDS and labor in rural Kenya—general examination 2006). Joseph C. Sands, Dissertation in Politics, Princeton University: “After Decentralization: Federal Constraints, Local Oversight, and Municipal School Systems in Brazil” (PhD 2004). Assistant Professor, Santa Clara University. Dominique Pareja Behague, Dissertation in Anthropology, McGill University: “The Shaping of Adolescent Psychopathology in the Wake of Brazil’s New Democracy” (PhD 2004). Researcher, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. Susanna Trnka, Dissertation in Anthropology, Princeton University: “God Only Listens to Those Who Sweat: Violence, the Body and Community in Sanatan Hindu Dialogues of the May 2000 Fiji Coup” (PhD 2002). Assistant Professor, University of Auckland, New Zealand. Current PhD Advising Amy Moran-Thomas (diabetes and parasitic infection in Belize—dissertation writing). Mark Robinson (neuroscience translation sites in the U.S.—dissertation writing). George Laufenberg (metaphysical healing and community life in the U.S.—dissertation writing) Pablo Landa (urban housing projects and memory work in Mexico—fieldwork). Daniel Polk (water right and environmental activism in the U.S.—fieldwork) Janet Hine (interdisciplinarity in stem cell research in Canada—fieldwork). Sebastian Ramirez (war refugees and urban resettlement in Colombia—pre-fieldwork). Celeste Alexander (infrastructure, transportation, local politics in Tanzania—pre-fieldwork). Igor Rubinov (transnational migration and remittances in Eastern Europe—pre-fieldwork). Postdoctoral Advising Peter Locke (PhD Princeton University), Center for Health and Wellbeing, 2009-2012. Ramah McCay (PhD Stanford University), Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, 2010-2012. Betsey Brada (PhD University of Chicago), Center for Health and Wellbeing, 2011-2012.

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Anthropology Undergraduate Senior Theses Advised Sarina Dutta. (2011). “The Story of Malnutrition: Experiences from a Nutrition Center in Khayelitsha.” Josh Franklin. (2011). “Claiming the Right to Transgender Health in Brazil.”

Honorable Mention, Department of Anthropology Senior Thesis Prize Winner, Dean Hank Dobin Prize for Community-Based Independent Work Winner, Kenneth Maxwell Senior Thesis Prize for Brazilian and Portuguese Studies Winner, Stanley Stein Senior Thesis Prize Fulbright IIE Award

Sonia Porter. (2011). “The Art of Aspiration: Crafting Life Chances at an Income Generation Project in Cape Town, South Africa.”

Honorable Mention, Department of Anthropology Senior Thesis Prize Winner, Dean Hank Dobin Prize for Community-Based Independent Work

Olaf Sakkers. (2011). “Things of this World: An Ethnographic Study of a Rural South African Hospital.” Alyse Wheelock. (2011). “Maps of Rural Health: An Ethnography of Access to Care in Peru.”

Winner, Global Health Program (GHP) Senior Thesis Prize Ben Oseroff. (Near Eastern Studies, 2011). “The Ethics of Prevention: Counseling, Consanguinity, and Premarital Testing for Beta-Thalassemia in Jordan.”

Winner, Allen Macy Dulles ’51 Award Winner, Bayard and Cleveland Doge Memorial Prize

John Torrey. (Religion, 2011). “Power Consecrated: An Ethnographic Critique of Donor Engagement with Churches and Mosques in Tanzania’s AIDS Response.” Honorable Mention, Global Health Program (GHP) Senior Thesis Prize Alex Gertner (2010). “Pharmaceutical Care, Public Experiments, and Patient Knowledge in the Brazilian Public Healthcare System.”

Winner, Senior Thesis Prize, Program in Global Health and Health Policy Winner, Dean Hank Dobin Prize for Community-Based Independent Work Winner, Stanley J. Stein Senior Thesis Prize, Program in Latin American Studies Winner, Kenneth Maxwell Senior Thesis Prize, Program in Latin American Studies Honorable Mention, Anthropology Senior Thesis Prize

Jessica Lander (2010). “From Lost Causes to Leaders: The School of St. Jude and Its Mission to Educate Tanzania’s Poorest and Brightest.” Kathryn Bailey (2010). “Vulnerability and Belonging: An Ethnographic study of profit/not-for-profit care for ex-mineworkers living with HIV/AIDS in southern Africa.” Elizabeth Chen (2010). “Border Health: An Anthropological Study of Health Promotion on the U.S.-Mexico Border.”

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Rebekah L. McCallum (2010). “Charismatic: The “Gifted Life and Work of Christian in Pune, India (the City of Virtue).”

Joshua Blaine (2008). “‘It ain’t dere no more’—New Orleans Mental Health Care Recovery: An Ethnographic Investigation.”

Winner, Dean Hank Dobin Prize for Community-Based Independent Work Winner, Anthropology Senior Thesis Prize Martin A. Dale ’53 Postgraduate Fellowship

Courtney E. Brein (2008). “Lives in an Obesity Epidemic: An Anthropological Study of Overweight Children and Their Families in an All-American Town.”

Second Place, Anthropology Senior Thesis Prize. Mallory G. James (2008). “Gardasil in Its Makers’ Eyes: The Invention and Deployment of Human Papillomavirus Vaccination.” Irit R. Rasooly (2007). “Planting Healthy Stores in Food Deserts: An Anthropological Study of Obesity, Consumption, and Public Health in East Baltimore.”

2007 Rivers Prize, Society for Medical Anthropology Winner, Dean Hank Dobin Prize for Community-Based Independent Work Winner, Anthropology Senior Thesis Prize Fulbright Postgraduate Fellowship

Elizabeth Faber Carey (2007). “Religious Health Citizenship: The Gift of the Memphis Church Health Center.”

Second Place, Anthropology Senior Thesis Prize Krista M. Nottage (2007). “‘Protect Ya Tings’: AIDS, Sexuality, and Stigma in the Bahamas.” Amy Beth Saltzman (2005). “Care and Mental Health in ‘The Life of the Money’: An Ethnography of Ethnic Fijian Mothers and Postpartum Practices Amidst Economic Transition.”

2005 Rivers Prize, Society for Medical Anthropology. Winner, Dean Hank Dobin Prize for Community-Based Independent Work Winner, Gregory Pope ’80 Prize for Science Writing, Council on Science and Technology Winner, Anthropology Senior Thesis Prize Winner, Moses Taylor Pyne Honor Prize

Eric Robert Brown (2005): “Fadkins: The Structure of the Fad Diet and its Rise and Fall in a Consumer Culture.” Steven Lawrence Porter (2004). “Traditional Healers, Biological Citizens, and Culture-as-such: HIV/AIDS and the Politics of Recognition in Post-Apartheid South Africa.”

Winner, Senior Thesis Prize, Center for Human Values Second Place, Anthropology Senior Thesis Prize Winner, Moses Taylor Pyne Honor Prize

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Matthew Saul Goldberg (2004). “Health in a State of Scarcity: An Ethnography of Health Care Among the Urban Poor in the Northeast of Brazil.”

Winner, Stanley J. Stein Senior Thesis Prize, Program in Latin American Studies. Second Place, Dean Hank Dobin Prize for Community-Based Independent Work Second Place, Anthropology Senior Thesis Prize. Fulbright Postgraduate Fellowship

Marisa S. C. Murphy (2004). “The Proxy Family: An Anthropological Study of Street Children and NGO's in Quito, Ecuador.”

Honorable Mention, Anthropology Senior Thesis Prize. Claire Coffin Bezdek (2004). “Cuban and U.S. Health Care: Rights as a Cultural System?” Carol Emi Bretschneider (2004). “Introducing Japan to Depression: Transformations in the Conceptualization of Mental Health in Japan.” Sarah Noranne Gee (2002). “Human Plastic: A Critique of the Social World of Reconstructive Surgery.”

Winner, Anthropology Senior Thesis Prize. Gustavo Rivera (2002). “Mobius Identity. An Anthropological Study of Identity in a Brazilian Squatter Settlement.” Linda Akeyo Alila (2002): “Emerging Cultures of AIDS Medicine, Activism, and Research in Kenya.” Alison Gordon (2002). “The Mad Cow Crisis: A New and Uncertain Disease Challenges the Traditional Foundations of British Life.” PRINCETON UNIVERSITY SERVICE Program Director and Executive Committees Co-Director, Program in Global Health and Health Policy, 2009-. Executive Committee, Center for Health and Wellbeing, 2009-. Executive Committee of the Program in Latin American Studies, 2003-2007; 2009-2011. Executive Committee of the Center for the Study of Religion, 2004-2011. Executive Committee of the Community-Based Learning Initiative, 2002-2008. Princeton University’s Committee on Examinations and Standing, 2004-2006, 2008.

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Departmental Service and Academic Committees Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Anthropology, 2004, 2011-2012. Steering Committee of the Undergraduate Certificate Program in Global Health and Health Policy, 2007-2008. Advisory Committee for the McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning, 2005-2007. Fulbright Fellowship Sub-Committee, Graduate School, 2004. Academic Advisor, Wilson College, 2004-2005, 2006-2007. Faculty Fellow, Wilson College, 2001 to the present. PARTICIPATION IN ACADEMIC EVENTS AT PRINCETON UNIVERSITY Panel: “The Aims of Education and the Problems of Society: Issues in Public Policy and Social Science Research,” Freshmen Orientation, September 2010. Lecture: “The Judicialization of the Right to Health in Brazil,” Office of Population Research, April 2010. Lecture: “The Social Impact of AIDS Treatment Rollouts,” The Keller Center for Innovation in Engineering Education, November 2009. Lecture: “Will to Live: AIDS Therapies and the Politics of Survival in Brazil,” Center for Migration and Development, November 2008. Lecture: “The Future of Global AIDS Treatment: A View from Brazil,” Center for Health and Wellbeing, February 2008. Discussion with undergraduate students, Health and the Environment Task Force, Prof. Burton Singer, Woodrow Wilson School, November 2007. Discussant, Princeton Documentary Film Festival, October 2007. Participant, Faculty Seminar on Causality, Council of the Humanities, January-April 2007. Discussant, “Access to Antiretrovirals for HIV: How Activism Has Translated into Political Action,” Colloquium on Public and International Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School, April 2007. Lecture: Pharmaceuticalization: AIDS Treatment Rollout and the Politics of Survival in Brazil. Department of Anthropology, March 2007. Speaker, AIDS Vigil, Princeton Chapel, December 2006.

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Lecture: “Economies of Salvation: Institutional Practices Shaping AIDS Treatment Rollout and Adherence in Brazil.” Economic Sociology Workshop, Department of Sociology, November 2006. Discussion with undergraduate students, Writing Seminar: Community Building and Social Change, Prof. Nancy Watterson, April and October 2005. Workshop for the Freshman Scholars Institute, August 2005. Moderator, Conference: “Philanthropy, Ethics, and International Aid,” University Center for Human Values, May 2005. Lecture: “Emergent Arts of Governing: Life Extending Drugs, Politics, and Inequality in Brazil,” Research Program in Development Studies, April 2005. Presentation: “Saints: Their Immanence and Poetics,” Author-Meets-Critics Event with Robert Orsi, Center for the Study of Religion, April 2005. Discussant, Lecture: “Ayacucho: El Largo Camino de la Paz” by Luis Millones, Department of Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Cultures, December 2004. Lecture: “Vita: Life in a Zone of Social Abandonment,” Program in Latin American Studies, Princeton University, October 2004. Presentation: “AIDS and Religion in Brazil.” Conference: “In the Service of All Nations? The Role of NGOs in Global Governance and Society.” Woodrow Wilson School, April 2004. Discussion with Graduate Students, Program in Health and Health Policy of the Center for Health and Wellbeing, March 2004. Lecture: “Treating AIDS in Brazil,” Colloquium: “Local Responses to a Global Crisis: Making Sense of AIDS in Haiti, Brazil & South Africa,” Program in Latin American Studies and Department of Anthropology, November 2003. Discussant, Lecture: “Nuclear War Weapons Scientists in the New World Order” by Hugh Gusterson, Department of Anthropology, April 2003. Discussant, Panel: AIDS Week, Student Global AIDS Campaign, December 2002. Discussant, Panel: Cancer Awareness Week, Princeton Against Cancer Together (PACT), April 2002. Lecture: “Pharmaceutical Governance: A Critique of the Brazilian AIDS Model,” Program in Latin American Studies, December 2001. Discussion with undergraduate students, Task Force on Public Health, Prof. Burton Singer, Woodrow Wilson School, March 2001.

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PRINCETON UNIVERSITY GRANTS FOR TEACHING, EVENTS, PUBLISHING Exploratory Seminar Grant, Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, 2009. 250th Anniversary Fund for Innovation in Undergraduate Education, Princeton University, course Development Grant, 2008. The University Center for Human Values, lecture grants, 2004, 2007. Program in Latin American Studies, Princeton University, Workshop Grant, 2008. Center for the Study of Religion, Princeton University, Freshmen Seminar Grant, 2007. Princeton University Committee on Research in the Humanities and the Social Sciences, Publication Grant for the Book Will to Live: AIDS Therapies and the Politics of Survival, 2006. Center for the Study of Religion and Center for Health and Wellbeing, Princeton University, Conference Grant, 2003-2004. CURRENT RESEARCH AND RESEARCH EXPERIENCE Principal Investigator, “The Future of Global AIDS Treatment and the Social Determinants of Health” (a research and teaching project exploring the impact of antiretroviral treatment rollouts on health systems in resource-poor settings in Latin America and Africa) (2008-2012). Co-Principal Investigator (with Paulo Picon), “Database of Judicial Claims to Access to Medicines in the State of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil” (Princeton University, Secretaria Estyadual da Saúde e Procuradoria Geral do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) (2008-2010). Co-Principal Investigator (with Laura Jardim, Adriana Petryna, and Claudia Fonseca). “An Anthropological Study of the Medical and Juridical Trajectories of Families Seeking Treatment for Genetic Disorders.” Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, Brazil (2009-2011). Co-Principal Investigator (with Ingo Sarlet), “Legal Observatory: The Role of the Judiciary in Executing the Right to Health in Brazil.” PUC-RS, Brazil (2009-2011). Co-Principal Investigator (with Torben Eskerod), “Visual Documentary: Bodies of Rights,” Brazil (2011-2012). Principal Investigator, “The Children of My Books,” ethnographic research project (interviews with the children of the main characters of Vita: Life in a Zone of Social Abandonment and Will to Live: AIDS Therapies and the Politics of Survival, (2011-2013). Archival Research at the Arquivo Histórico do Rio Grande do Sul and Arquivo Público do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil, March and June 2006, Spring 2009 (criminal records of the Mucker War, 1873-1878).

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Co-Principal Investigator (with Laura Jardim and Matthew Goldberg). “Cultures of Genetic Predictive Testing in Brazil: The Case of Machado-Joseph Disease,” 2004-2006 (review of medical literature and interviews with geneticists at the Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, Brazil). Principal Investigator, “The Control of HIV/AIDS in Brazil,” 1996-2007 (interviews with policy-makers, activists, and scientists working in public and private HIV/AIDS institutions in Porto Alegre, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo and Brasilia, and fieldwork among AIDS patients and care-givers in the city of Salvador). Principal Investigator, “An Anthropological Assessment of the Quality of Significant Relationships and the Changing Moral Values of Migrant and Working Class Families in Southern Brazil, 2001-2004 (interviews with families, psychiatrists and psychologists, and research in medical archives in Novo Hamburgo and Porto Alegre). Principal Investigator, “Life Sustaining Technologies and the Transformation of the Experience of Dying in the United States” (with Professor Arthur Kleinman), Palliative Care Service, Massachusetts General Hospital, 1999-2000 (interviews with family members, health professionals, social workers and bioethicists regarding end of life care). Research Assistant of Professor Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Project: Organs Watch, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, 1997-1998. Research Assistant of Professor Paul Rabinow, Project: Anthropology of Reason, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, 1995-1996. Principal Investigator (with Jessica Blatt and Milton Quintino). “AIDS and Social Change in Brazil,” Instituto Superior de Estudos da Religião, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1992-1995 (interviews with AIDS activists, patients and care-givers in several regions of Brazil). Archival Research at the Museu Visconde de São Leopoldo, Arquivo Mentz, and Arquivo Nacional, Brazil, 1993-1995 (focus on the Mucker War, 1873-1874). Archival research at the Ibero-Amerikanischen Instituts Preußischer Kulturbesitz zu Berlin and at the Evangelishes Kirche der Union in Berlin, Germany, 1989-1989 (19th century German immigration to Brazil—focus on missionary societies). Research Coordinator for Latin America, Office for Research and Social Action of the Lutheran World Federation, Geneva, Switzerland, 1987-1990. Co-Principal Investigator (with Elizabeth Francken, Neddy Astudillo, and Elizabeth Caravaca), “The Reality of Youth in Central and South America,” Latin American Council of Churches, 1990-1991 (interviews with youth in Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, and Uruguay). Research Assistant, “Violations of Human Rights in Brazil: Land Conflicts,” The Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA), Washington D.C., 1983 (preparation of a dossier presented to the Human rights Commission of the Organization of American States, Washington, D.C.).

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CONSULTANCY WORK World Council of Churches. Facing AIDS: The Challenge, the Churches' Response. Geneva: World Council of Churches Publications, 1997 (study document). Health Division of the City of Salvador, Brazil. Uma Avaliação Qualitativa das Práticas de Prevenção em AIDS na Cidade de Salvador. (“A Qualitative Analysis of AIDS Prevention Practices in Salvador”). Salvador, 1996 (report). AIDS Program of the Brazilian Ministry of Health. A Epidemia da AIDS no Brasil: Situação e Tendências. (The AIDS Epidemic in Brazil: Situation and Tendencies”). Brasília: Ministério da Saúde, 1996 (report). Religious Support Against AIDS (ARCA). AIDS e Mudança Social no Brasil. (“AIDS and Social Change in Brazil”). Instituto Superior de Estudos da Religião: Rio de Janeiro, 1995. (report). World Council of Church and Lutheran World Federation. Making Connections/Facing AIDS: An HIV/AIDS Resource Book (co-author). Geneva: WCC Publications, 1994 (English, French, and Spanish). Latin American Council of Churches. Contacto Directo: Recomendaciones a la Junta Directiva del CLAI Sobre el Trabajo con la Juventude en América Latina. (Recommendations to the Board of the Latin American Council of Churches on Work with Youth). Quito: Consejo Latinoamerico de Iglesias, 1991 (report). Office for Research and Social Action of the Lutheran World Federation. The Roots of Poverty and Hunger in Brazil. São Leopoldo: Sinodal, 1990 (resource book, English and Portuguese). PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP AND SERVICE Member of the American Anthropological Association (Society for Medical Anthropology and American Ethnological Society); Latin American Studies Association; the Brazilian Studies Association; the Society for the Study of Social Problems. Associate Editor, Medical Anthropology: Cross-Cultural Studies in Health and Illness, 2010-2014. Editorial Board Member, Common Knowledge, 2007-. Editorial Board Member, Cultural Anthropology, 2010-2014. Editorial Board Member, Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 2007-2011. Editorial Board Member, Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, 2011-.

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Editorial Board Member, Revista de Antropologia Social dos Alunos do PPGAS-UFSCar, Brazil, 2009-. Editorial Board Member, Medical Anthropology: Cross-Cultural Studies in Health and Illness, 2007-2010. Elected Officer, Society for Medical Anthropology, 2003-2006 (coordinator of the Society’s Special Interest Groups). Co-founder and co-chair of the Special Interest Group on Science, Technology, and Medicine of the Society for Medical Anthropology (2006-2009).. Selection Committee of the Margaret Mead Award, Society for Anthropology and American Anthropological Association, 2011. Selection Committee of the Graduate Student Paper Prize, Interest Group: Science, Technology, and Medicine, Society for Medical Anthropology, 2011. Selection Committee of the Anthony Leeds Award, Society for Urban, National and Transnational/Global Anthropology, 2007-2009. Selection Committee of the Medical Anthropology Practicing Award, Society for Medical Anthropology, 2006. Selection Committee of the Rudolf Virchow Award Graduate Student Paper Prize, Society for Medical Anthropology, 2006. Selection Committee of the Charles Hughes Graduate Student Paper Prize, Society for Medical Anthropology, 2004. Book manuscript reviewer for the University of California Press, Duke University Press, Blackwell Publishing, Rutgers University Press, Princeton University Press. Article reviewer for the journals American Anthropologist, American Ethnologist; Common Knowledge; Current Anthropology; Cultural Anthropology; Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry; Global Public Health; Globalization and Health; Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology Medical Anthropology; Medical Anthropology Quarterly; Zygon. Academic reviewer: University of Copenhagen, Yale University, University of Virginia, MIT, Columbia University, School of Social Science and School of Historical Studies of the Institute for Advanced Study, University of California San Francisco, Stanford University, Northeastern University. LANGUAGES English, German, Portuguese and Spanish.