People

Berkeley Center for Social Medicine

Co-Chairs

Charles Briggs, Anthropology, UC Berkeley (In Residence)

Seth M. Holmes, Environmental Science, Policy & Management and Medical Anthropology, UC Berkeley (In Residence)

Academic Coordinator

Deborah Lustig, UC Berkeley

Affiliated Faculty

Vincanne Adams, Anthropology, History and Social Medicine, UCSF (In Residence)

Colette Auerswald, Community Health and Human Development, UC Berkeley School of Public Health

Catherine Bliss, Social and Behavioral Sciences, UCSF

Xóchitl Castańeda, Public Health, UC Berkeley

Nancy Chen, Anthropology, UC Santa Cruz

Elena Conis, Journalism, UC Berkeley

Jason Corburn, Public Health and City & Regional Planning, UC Berkeley

Shari Dworkin, Social and Behavioral Sciences, UCSF

Angela Garcia, Anthropology, Stanford (In Residence) 

Cristiana Giordano, Anthropology, UC Davis 

Deborah Gordon, Anthropology, History and Social Medicine, UCSF (In Residence)

Mike Harvey, San Jose State University (In Residence)

Cori Hayden, Anthropology, UC Berkeley

Jodi Halpern, Bioethics and Medical Humanities, UC Berkeley School of Public Health/UC Berkeley-UCSF Joint Medical Program

Denise Herd, Behavioral Sciences, UC Berkeley School of Public Health 

S. Lochlann Jain, Anthropology, Stanford 

Sharon Kaufman, Anthropology, History and Social Medicine, UCSF 

Barbara Koenig, Social and Behavioral Sciences, UCSF

Kelly Knight, Anthropology, History and Social Medicine, UCSF (In Residence)

Thomas W. Laqueur, History, UC Berkeley

Phuoc Le, Medicine, UCSF

Clara Mantini-Briggs, Anthropology, UC Berkeley (In Residence)

Akhil Mehra, Anthropology, History, and Social Medicine, UCSF

Rachel Morello-Frosch, Public Health and Environmental Science, Policy and Management, UC Berkeley

Mahasin S. Mujahid, Medical Research & Public Health, UC Berkeley School of Public Health

Karen Nakamura, Anthropology, UC Berkeley

Nick Nelson, Internal Medicine, Highland Hospital 

Amani Nuru-Jeter, Community Health and Human Development, UC Berkeley School of Public Health (In Residence)

Aihwa Ong, Anthropology, UC Berkeley

James Quesada, Anthropology, San Francisco State University (In Residence)

Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Anthropology, UC Berkeley

Jeff Schonberg, Anthropology, San Francisco State University (In Residence)

Sriram Shamasunder, Medicine, UCSF

Janet Shim, Social and Behavioral Sciences, UCSF

Claire Snell-Rood, Public Health, UC Berkeley

Ann Swidler, Sociology, UC Berkeley

Charis Thompson, Gender and Women's Studies, UC Berkeley

Loïc Wacquant, Sociology, UC Berkeley (In Residence)

Ian Whitmarsh, Anthropology, History and Social Medicine, UCSF (In Residence)

Visiting Scholars in Residence

Alessandro Bisio, MD, University of Turin

Mark Fleming, UC San Francisco 

Sabine Flick, Ph.D., Sociology, Institute for Social Research, Frankfurt, Germany

Zvika Orr, Life and Health Sciences, Jerusalem College of Technology 

Graduate Students

Angela Aguilar, Ethnic Studies

Lindsay Berkowitz, Sociology

Emma Dobbins, UCB-UCSF Joint Medical Program

Ugo Edu, Medical Anthropology

Gabby Falzone, Education

Nadia Gaber, Medical Anthropology

Angela J. Johnson, Psychology

Matty Lichtenstein, Sociology

Carlos Martinez, Medical Anthropology

Nallely Mejia, Sociology

Joshua Neff, UCB-UCSF Joint Medical Program

Margaret Mary Downey, Social Welfare

Meredith Palmer, Geography

Melanie Plasencia, Ethnic Studies

Ryan Whitacre, Medical Anthropology

Anthony Wright, Medical Anthropology