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CURRICULUM VITAE P. SEAN BROTHERTON, Ph 1 CURRICULUM VITAE P. SEAN BROTHERTON, Ph.D. Department of Anthropology Haskell Hall 331, University of Chicago Chicago IL 60637 USA Email: [email protected] RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS Anthropology of medicine, science, technology, and the body; social theory; subjectivity and health; humanitarianism; postcoloniality; governmentality; statecraft; theories of post-/socialism; psychoanalysis/psychological anthropology; Latin America and the Caribbean. ACADEMIC POSITIONS 2015-present Associate Professor (tenured), Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago 20014-2015 Associate Professor on Term, Department of Anthropology, Yale University 2008–2014 Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Yale University 2006 -2008 Assistant Professor, Anthropology and College of Human Medicine, Michigan State University 2004-2006 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) of Canada Postdoctoral Fellow, Anthropology of Medicine Program, Department d’Antropologia, Filsofia I Treball Social, Universitat Rovira I Virgili (URV), Spain 2002-2004 Faculty Lecturer, Department of Anthropology/International Development Studies, McGill University 2000-2002 Research Associate, Fundación Fernando Ortiz, Havana, Cuba. 1999-2000 Sessional Lecturer, “English for Everyday Life,” Instituto Carlos Finlay, Centro de Investigación y Producción de Vacunas y Sueros, Havana, Cuba. 1999 Sessional Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, Vanier College, Montréal, Quebec. EDUCATION 1998-2004 Ph.D., Departments of Anthropology and Social Studies of Medicine, McGill University, 1996-1998 M.A., Social Anthropology, York University, Toronto. 1991-1995 Hon. B.Sc., Honors Specialist Program in Human Biology, University of Toronto. SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS BOOK 2012 Revolutionary Medicine: Health and the Body in Post-Soviet Cuba. Duke University Press • (Reviewed in American Ethnologist, Anthropology Quarterly, Anthropological Notebooks, Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Global Public Health, The Latin American Review of Books, Medical Anthropology Quarterly, Medische Antropologie, Social History of Medicine, Somatosphere) GUEST EDITED PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS (SPECIAL ISSUES) 2013 P. Sean Brotherton and Vinh-Kim Nguyen (Guest Editors). Special Issue: Beyond the Body Proper: Global Politics/Local Biology. Medical Anthropology: Cross-Cultural Studies in Health and Illness 32(4). 2008 Sabrina Doyon and P. Sean Brotherton (Guest Editors). Anthropologie et mondes socialistes et (post-)/socialistes. Anthropologie et sociétés Numéro Spécial (Double Édition): 32(1-2). P. Sean Brotherton, 2 of 11 ARTICLES IN PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS 2013 P. Sean Brotherton and Vinh-Kim Nguyen. Revisiting Local Biology in the Era of Global Health. Medical Anthropology: Cross-Cultural Studies in Health and Illness 32(4): 287-290. 2008 P. Sean Brotherton. “We have to think like capitalists but continue being socialists”: Medicalized Subjectivities, Emergent Capital, and Socialist Entrepreneurs in post- Soviet Cuba. American Ethnologist 35(2): 259-274. 2008 Sabrina Doyon and P. Sean Brotherton. Présentation: Anthropologie et (post)socialismes: approches de la complexité. Anthropologie et sociétés 32(1-2): 7-22 2008 Sabrina Doyon and P. Sean Brotherton. Les Redéfinitions d’une Révolution: Pratiques et politiques dans les secteurs de la santé et de l’environnment a Cuba. Anthropologie et sociétés 32(1-2): 193-216. 2006 P. Sean Brotherton. Socialist Body Politics: Shifting Ideologies, Pragmatic Subjectivities, and Cuba’s Changing Health Sector in the Post-Soviet Era. Thule: Rivista italiana di studi americanistici 20/21, aprile/ottobre 2006: 181-205. 2005 P. Sean Brotherton. Macroeconomic Change and the Biopolitics of Health in Cuba’s Special Period. Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology 10(2): 339–369. CHAPTERS IN PEER-REVIEWED EDITED VOLUMES 2016 P. Sean Brotherton. Psychoanalysis in Buenos Aires, pp. 101-106. In Routledge Handbook of Medical Anthropology. Eds. Lenore Manderson, Elizabeth Cartwright, and Anita Hardon. London: Routledge. 2013 P. Sean Brotherton. Fueling la Revolución: Itinerant Physicians, Transactional Humanitarianism, and Shifting Moral Economies, pp. 127-151. In Health Travels: Cuban Health(Care) on the Island and Around the World. Ed. Nancy Burke. University of California Press, Medical Humanities Series. 2013 P. Sean Brotherton. A Genealogy of Bodily Practices in Post-Soviet Cuba, pp. 16- 32. In Troubling Natural Categories (Essays in Honor of Margaret Lock). Eds. Naomi Adelson, Leslie Butt, and Karina Kielman. McGill-Queen’s University Press. 2012 P. Sean Brotherton. Introduction to Part III: Islamic Biopolitics and the “Modern” Nation-State – Comparative Case Studies of ART, pp. 220-222. In Islam and Assisted Reproductive Technologies: Sunni and Shia Perspectives. Eds. Marcia Inhorn and Soraya Tremayne. London: Berghan Books 2011 P. Sean Brotherton. Health and Health Care in Cuba: History after the Revolution: Key Phases and Overviews of Health Development, pp. 478-485. Cuba: People, Culture, and History. Ed. Alan West-Dúran. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. BOOK REVIEW 2011 P. Sean Brotherton. Social Relations and the Cuban Health Miracle, Elizabeth Kath. Contemporary Sociology 40(4): 459-460 MANUSCRIPTS IN PROGRESS MONOGRAPH IN PREPARATION The Socialist Humanitarian Imperative: The Logic and Practice of Cuba’s Quest for Global Health in the Americas (writing in progress) CHAPTERS IN PEER-REVIEWED EDITED VOLUMES P. Sean Brotherton. Health and Wellbeing in Psychoanalytic Culture in Buenos Aires. The Routledge Handbook of Medical Anthropology in the 21st Century. Eds. P. Sean Brotherton, 3 of 11 Lenore Manderson, Anita Hardon and Elizabeth Cartwright. London: Taylor Francis/Routledge (under contract) RESEARCH GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND AWARDS in prep. National Science Foundation – Cultural Anthropology & Science and Technology Studies (Talk Therapy: Trauma, Memory, and the Body in Psychoanalytic Culture in Buenos Aires, Argentina) in prep. Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Inc., Post-PhD Grant (Talk Therapy: Trauma, Memory, and the Body in Psychoanalytic Culture in Buenos Aires, Argentina) 2016-2021 National Institute of Health (An Intersectional Examination of Black Men’s Preventive and Metabolic Health), under review) 2013-14 The Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Memorial Fund (Organizer for conference, titled Counter Vitalities: Life At the Edges of Global Health, to be held Spring 2014), $7000 2013-14 Yale’s Council for Latin American and Iberian Studies Conference Grant (Counter Vitalities: Life At the Edges of Global Health, to be held Spring 2014), $5000 2013-14 Fund for Lesbian and Gay Studies (FLAGS), Yale University (Sexuality and the Body in Psychoanalytic Culture in Buenos Aires, Argentina), $5000 2013 Griswold Faculty Research Grant, Yale University (Talk Therapy: Trauma, Memory, and the Body in Psychoanalytic Culture in Buenos Aires, Argentina), $4000 2013 MacMillan Faculty Research Grant, Yale University Talk Therapy: Trauma, Memory, and the Body in Psychoanalytic Culture in Buenos Aires, Argentina), $9000 2013 Yale’s Council for Latin American and Iberian Studies Curriculum Development Grant, $2000 2012 Yale Center for Clinical Investigation (Creating opportunities for community-based health care interventions through the documentation of the health care needs of students in an Adult Education setting); PI: Dr. D. Gordon; Co-Investigators: Drs. P. S. Brotherton, A. Caraballo, B Guthrie, T. Kershaw, T. McMahon, $49,899 * not funded 2010-2011 Junior Faculty Fellowship, research leave for academic year 2010-2011 MacMillan Faculty Research Grant, Yale University, $12,000 2011 Yale’s Council for Latin American and Iberian Studies Curriculum Development Grant, $2000 2010-2011 Yale’s Hilles Publication Fund, $5000 2004-2006 Postdoctoral Fellowship, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) of Canada, $75,500 2002-2003 McGill University Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research Fellowship, $5000 2000 Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Inc., Individual Research Grant (“Revolutionary” Health and Medicine: Policy, Power, and Practices in Havana, Cuba), $18,000 2000 Canadian International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Doctoral Award (“Revolutionary” Health and Medicine: Policy, Power, and Practices in Havana, Cuba) $20,000 2000 McGill University, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Internal Research Grant (“Revolutionary” Health and Medicine: Policy, Power and Practices in Havana, Cuba), $5000 1999 McGill University Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research Fellowship, $5000 1998 McGill University Faculty of Graduate Studies Bursary Award/Fellowship, $5000 1997 Royal Anthropological Institute (UK), E. Horniman Award (The Constructed “Other”: Colonialism, Medicine and Representation — AIDS and the “Black Body” in Jamaica, £4000 P. Sean Brotherton, 4 of 11 1997 Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), Academic Award (“Contagious Bodies:” (Re)Defining Risk, Stigma and the Moral Order in HIV/AIDS Education and Prevention Programs in Jamaica), $9000 1997 York University Fieldwork Cost Award (The Constructed “Other”: Colonialism, Medicine and Representation — AIDS and the “Black Body” in Jamaica), $850 SELECTED INVITED SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS 2014 The Socialist Humanitarian Imperative: Cuba’s Quest for Global Health in the Americas Department of Anthropology, Colloquium Series, Rice University, February 27th. 2014 Cuba’s Quest for Global Health in
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