Celina Elizabeth Callahan-Kapoor
Senior Lecturer
Vanderbilt University, Center for Medicine, Health, and Society
celina.callahan.kapoor@vanderbilt.edu
POSITIONS HELD
Senior Lecturer, Vanderbilt University Center for Medicine, Health, and Society. August 2016 –
EDUCATION
Ph.D. University of California, Santa Cruz. Degree Conferred, June 2016.
Dissertation Title: Difference and Distinction: Diabetic Publics in the U.S./Mexico Borderlands
Committee Danilyn Rutherford (Chair, co-advisor); Matthew Wolf-Meyer (co-advisor), Charles Briggs, Nancy Chen.
M.A. Anthropology, Wayne State University, 2008.
B.A. Social Thought & Political Economy. University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1997.
AWARDS
2016 Richard Randolph Graduate Student Paper Prize, University of California, Santa Cruz
FELLOWSHIPS
2015 UC President’s Dissertation-Year Fellowship
2014 UCSC Department of Anthropology Summer Travel Grant
2012 UC MEXUS Dissertation Research Grant
2012 Wenner-Gren Dissertation Fieldwork Grant
2012 National Science Foundation (NSF) Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant
2011 UC MEXUS Student Research Small Grant
2010 UC Santa Cruz Science & Justice Fellowship Program
2010 Chicano Latino Resource Center Mini-Grant
2010 Department of Anthropology, Regents Fellowship
2008 Graduate Professional Scholarship, Wayne State University
PUBLICATIONS
2016 Clinical Rationality and Chronic Subjunctivity, Or, How Physicians use Diabetes and Insomnia to Manage Everyday Life in the United States. Co-authored with Matthew Wolf-Meyer. Medical Anthropology.
Web-based publications
2013 Invisible Interlocutors and the Savage Slot: Conversations at “Medicine on the Edge.” Guest post for Somatosphere. http://somatosphere.net/2013/07/invisible-interlocutors-and-the-savage-slot-conversations-at-medicine-on-the-edge.html. July 18.
2013 Medicine and Science, Unpredicted. Guest post for Somatosphere.net. http://somatosphere.net/2013/06/medicine-and-science-unpredicted.html. June 17.
Works in Progress
In preparation. Exiting Diabetesville: Living Under the Spectre of Diabetes in the Borderlands.
CONFERENCE ACTIVITY
Panels Organized
2016 Epidemiography and the Inscription of Public Health. Society for Cultural Anthropology Bienniel Meeting. Ithaca, NY. May 13th. Panel Co-Chair.
2015 Presumptive Diagnosis: Locating Temporal Bodies Through Biomedicine and Scientific Knowledge. American Anthropological Association Meeting. Denver, CO. November 20th. Panel Co-Chair.
Papers Presented
2016 Contemporary Colonialisms in the US/Mexico Borderlands?: Locating the Colonial Present in Diabetes Care. American Anthropological Association. Denver, CO. November 18th.
2016 “Mediating the Region, Mediating Diabetes: Portable Pandemic in Statistics and Film.” Society for Cultural Anthropology. Ithaca, NY. May 13th.
2015 “Indians, Inbreeding, and Ethnic Blood: Diabetes as Time and Scale-making.” American Anthropological Association Meeting. Denver, CO. November 18-22nd.
2015 “Disabling Citizenship: gatekeepers and signature deferral.” American Ethnological Society Meeting. San Diego, CA. March 12-15.
2014 “Humanitarianism at Home: caring for bodies, doing good work.” American Anthropological Association Meeting. Washington, D.C. December 3-7.
2014 “Chemicals, Chronic Conditions, and Causation Narratives: diabetes, defoliant exposure, and agrochemicals in the Rio Grande Valley.” Society for Cultural Anthropology. Detroit, MI. May 9-10.
2014 “Don’t Quote me on That”: Public and Private Conversations about Diabetes. Society for Applied Anthropology/Society for Medical Anthropology. Albuquerque, NM. March 18-22.
2010 “Exceptionally Normal Spaces? Bodies and Borderlands in the United States.” Presented at Ethnographic Engagements Workshop. University of California, Santa Cruz.
2008 “Troubling the Concept of Stigma.” American Anthropological Association Meeting. San Francisco, CA. November 19-23.
2008 “Unraveling the black box of HIV/AIDS-related stigma: From individual narratives to systems of power.” Society for Applied Anthropology/Society for Medical Anthropology. March 25-29.
2004 “Disclosure, Community Responsibility, Peer Advocacy and Trust: Mount Sinai patients respond to the SHAST Project.” HRSA (Human Resource Service Administration) and EPPEC (Enhancing Prevention with Positives Education Center). Washington, DC. November 20-22.
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
2012-2014
Doctoral Dissertation Research, Lower Rio Grande Valley, Texas.
Conducted two years of participant observation, ethnographic interviews, and media analysis of the social, political, and economic situatedness of diabetes.
2007-2008
Principal Investigator. “Recombinant Possibilities: A Study into Americans and their dogs as a form of American Kinship.” Ann Arbor and Detroit, Michigan. Interviewed 20 families, conducted participant observation during pet adoptions, and used visual and mapping techniques.
2007
Research Assistant, Hannan Archival Research Project. Wayne State University.
Interdisciplinary archival research on women’s experience with foundation support before social security.
2004-2007
Research Assistant, Mount Sinai Hospital, Chicago, Illinois. HIV Prevention Project. Interviewed patients, conducted medical chart reviews, coded and analyzed data for multiple article submissions.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Instructor
Statistics & the Self, Vanderbilt University, Center for Medicine, Health, and Society (Spring 2017)
Theories of the Body, Vanderbilt University, Center for Medicine, Health, and Society (Spring 2017)
Politics of Health, Vanderbilt University, Center for Medicine, Health, and Society (Fall & Spring 2016)
Bodies and Borders, Smith College, Latino and Latin American Studies (Winter 2015)
Teaching Assistantships
Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, UC Santa Cruz, Anthropology. (Spring 2009)
Anthropology and Law, UC Santa Cruz, Anthropology. (Winter 2009)
Race and Anthropology, UC Santa Cruz, Anthropology. (Fall 2009)
Inside Mexico, UC Santa Cruz, Anthropology. (Winter 2010)
Human Functional Anatomy, UC Santa Cruz, Anthropology. (Winter 2010)
Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, UC Santa Cruz, Anthropology. (Spring 2011)
Invited Lectures
2015 “Mediating Diabetes: rethinking the truth in numbers.” Writing Ethnography for Public Health. Hunter College, School of Urban Public Health.
2014 “Chronic Publics and Colonial Pasts: Fieldwork Considerations in the Texas/Mexico borderlands.” ANTH 4315/6315: Field Experience in the Borderlands. University of Texas, Pan American.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Chronic illness and everyday life; national identity and belonging; borderlands; normalcy; publics; ethnographic methods; colonialism and bodies; health disparities and the concept of ‘health’; science and technology studies.
SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION
Ethnographic Engagements Workshop. Student Coordinator, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Cruz. 2009-2011
Graduate Student Representative to the Anthropology Faculty. Wayne State University Department of Anthropology. 2008
POSITIONS HELD
Society for Cultural Anthropology, Assistant. January 2010-June 2011.
Medical Anthropology Quarterly, Editorial Assistant. May 2008 – August 2008.
LANGUAGES
Spanish: Spoken, advanced; Reading and Writing, intermediate.
PROFESSIONAL TRAINING
Rapid Ethnographic Assessment Technique: Group data collection, analysis and report preparation.
Research Talk, Inc. Training: Introduction to atlas.ti, memos, coding and analysis techniques.