Talia Rose Weiner 1765 East 55th Street, apt. D4, Chicago, IL 60615 718.755.0279 / [email protected]

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Medical/psychiatric anthropology, narrative co-production, enactments of expertise, biomedical subjectivities, clinical ethnography in the U.S. and Indonesia

EDUCATION

The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, September 2008 – in progress Ph.D., The Department of Comparative Human Development • Trial Research Thesis: “The (Un)managed Self: Self-Management of Bipolar Disorder and the Dilemma of the Choosing Subject” (Faculty Advisors: Jennifer Cole, Judith Farquhar)

The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, August 2007 M.A. – Master of the Arts Program in the Social Sciences (Psychological Anthropology, Human Development) • Thesis: “’The Ten Names of Peace’: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Psychological Narratives in Bali Following Terrorist Attacks.” (Faculty Advisor: Richard Shweder)

Salt Institute for Documentary Studies, Photography Track, Portland, ME, December 2004 • Completed coursework in Advanced Documentary Photography, Approaches and Issues in Documentary Studies, and Field Research; Carried out three visual ethnographic research projects. • Photo-Essay “Walking After Midnight: Linda Mae, Homeless at Seventy-One” published in 2006 Salt magazine.

Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA, June 2001 B.A. double major in English Literature and Psychology • Awarded W.W. Smith Scholarship for academic achievement. • Thesis: “Narratives of Existential Crisis: The Relationship between Individualism and the Existential Portrait of the Self.” (Faculty Advisors: Kenneth Gergen, Jeanne Marecek)

GRANTS AND AWARDS

• University of Chicago Committee on Southern Asian Studies (COSAS) Summer Language Fellowship (2010). • National Science Foundation travel grant for 2010 Annual Meeting of the Society for the Social Studies of Science. • University of Chicago Committee on Southern Asian Studies (COSAS) Summer Language Fellowship (2009). • Swarthmore College Lucretia Mott Fellowship (September 2008-June 2009). • Graduate Fellowship, Social Sciences Division, University of Chicago.

PUBLICATIONS

• Cohler, B. & Weiner, T. (in press). The Inner Fortress: Symptom and Meaning in Asperger’s Syndrome. Psychoanalytic Inquiry.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

• Teaching Assistant, Cultural Psychology, Prof. Richard Shweder, The University of Chicago, Department of Comparative Human Development, Autumn 2009. • Teaching Assistant, Research Design in the Social Sciences, Prof. Micere Keels, The University of Chicago, Department of Comparative Human Development, Winter 2009.

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• Hired as Lector for Academic and Professional Writing (aka “The Little Red Schoolhouse”), The University of Chicago, Spring 2009.

TALKS, PRESENTED PAPERS, AND COMMENTARIES

• “‘The Ten Names of Peace’: Co-production of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Bali following terrorist attacks.” Society for Psychological Anthropology Biennial Conference, "Moments Of Crisis: Decision, Transformation, Catharsis, Critique." Panel: “Crisis Intervention? The intersection of institutional well-being an lived experience.” Asilomar, CA (March 28, 2009). • “The (Un)managed Self: Self-management of bipolar disorder and the dilemma of the choosing subject.” Trial Research Conference, The University of Chicago. Panel: "Contextualizing Mental Illness: culture and the (ab)normality of the self." Chicago, IL (May 7, 2010). • “The Ten Names of Peace: Socio-historically salient metaphors and the co-production of PTSD in Bali following terrorist attacks.” Adler Institute on Social Exclusion, “Social Determinants of Mental Health: From Awareness to Action” Chicago, IL (Poster presentation, June 3-4, 2010). • “The (Un)managed Self: Self-management of bipolar disorder and the dilemma of the choosing subject.” Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) 35th Annual Meeting, “STS in Global Contexts.” Panel: “From Neurons to Chimpanzees: Ethnographic Confrontations with the Pharmaceutical Self.” Tokyo, Japan (August 25-29, 2010).

SERVICES

Clinical Ethnography Workshop, Counsel on Advanced Studies, The University of Chicago. • Student Coordinator, September 2009-present.

PROFESSIONAL AND RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Spectrum Science Communications, Research and Media Analyst, December 2007 – October 2008 • Led custom-tailored media monitoring projects including proposals, project design, project management, data analysis and reporting and presentation of results.

Time Research, Interviewer, June 2007 • Interviewed participants of the 2007 American Diabetes Association Conference for London-based independent healthcare market research agency.

University of Chicago Department of Anthropology, Research Assistant, November 2006-November 2007 • Transcribed and linguistically and thematically coded Christian Charismatic movement sermons for Linguistic Anthropologist Robin Shoaps, Ph.D., using Transcriber and ELAN software.

University of Chicago Department of Health Studies, Research Assistant, September 2006-August 2007 • Conducted clinical diagnostic interviews for waves 12 and 13 of the longitudinal study “Growing Up with ADHD” directed by Dr. Benjamin Lahey, Professor of Psychiatry in the Department of Health Studies. • Testing tools include Woodcock Johnson Academic Achievement Scales, Computer Assisted Personal Interview, Dot- Probe computer task, and interview measures of depression and mania (SCID and KSADS).

University of Chicago Department of Comparative Human Development, Research Assistant, Nov. 2006-Mar. 2007 • Assisted in the analysis, coding, and data entry of narrative material derived from interviews with homeless mentally ill women for the “Uptown Project,” by Tanya Luhrmann, Director of the Clinical Ethnography program in the Department of Comparative Human Development (now at Stanford University, Anthropology).

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Medical and Health Research Association, Early Intervention Service Coordinator, March 2003-July 2006 • Managed caseload of 30-40 initial and ongoing cases for large non-profit agency. • Conducted home visits, referred children for evaluations, located therapy services throughout Brooklyn, NY, monitored services, and held reviews. • Completed training in service coordination, autism spectrum disorders, feeding disorders, premature births, assistive technology, and respite.

New Hope of Pennsylvania (Now Pennsylvania MENTOR), Therapeutic Staff Support, July 2001-March 2003 • Provided 1:1 intervention to children with developmental disorders. • Received training and experience in Floortime (Greenspan) method and Applied Behavioral Analysis (ABA).

LANGUAGES

• Spanish (fluent), Hebrew (intermediate), Indonesian (beginner)

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

• American Anthropological Association (Society for Psychological Anthropology & Society for Medical Anthropology) • Society for Social Studies of Science

GRADUATE COURSEWORK

Cultural Psychology (Shweder, Autumn 2006) Perspectives: Social Sciences Analysis (Macaloon, Autumn 2006) Adolescence and Youth (Cohler, Autumn 2006) Psychological Anthropology (Hall, Winter 2007) Ethnographic Methods (Fred, Winter 2007) Development Over the Life Course (Hans, Winter 2007) Culture, Convention, and the Clinic (Carr, Spring 2007) Academic/Professional Writing (Spring 2007) Directed Readings: MA Paper Research (Shweder, Spring 2007) Language in Culture-1 (Silverstein, Autumn 2008) Pushing the Boundary: Current Debates on Animals and the Species Divide (Kulick, Autumn 2008) HD Concepts (Cohler, Autumn 2008) Biopower (Farquhar, Winter 2009) Linguistic Anthropology Seminar: Narrative (Gal, Winter 2009) Culture, Power, Subjectivity-1 (Cole, Winter 2009) Modern Psychotherapies (Orlinsky, Spring 2009) Trial Research in Human Development-1 (Keels, Spring 2009) Drugs: Culture and Context (Carr, Spring 2009) Introduction to Science Studies (Knorr-Cetina, Johns, Autumn 2009) Trial Research in Human Development-2 (Lucy, Autumn 2009) Principles of Teaching Writing (Autumn 2009) Ethnographic Writing (Cole, Winter 2010) Statistical Methods of Research-1 (Raudenbush, Winter 2010) Psychological Assessment-2 (Stallings, Winter 2010) Language in Culture-2 (Gal, Spring 2010) Approaches to Clinical Ethnography (Carr, Spring 2010) 3 Talia Rose Weiner 1765 East 55th Street, apt. D4, Chicago, IL 60615 718.755.0279 / [email protected]

Culture, Mental Health, and Psychiatry (Raikhel, Spring 2010)

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