{"id":4,"date":"2017-03-30T01:17:21","date_gmt":"2017-03-30T01:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/celinacallahankapoor\/about-me\/"},"modified":"2017-09-06T14:52:43","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T14:52:43","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/celinacallahankapoor\/about-me\/","title":{"rendered":"About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"

Celina Callahan-Kapoor’s research considers how identity and belonging are formed through ongoing interactions between popular media, expert knowledge, and bodies. Her dissertation, Disidentification with Diabetes: Diabetic Publics in the US\/Mexico Borderlands<\/em>, focused on the depiction of the \u201cdiabetes epidemic\u201d in the south Texas\/Mexico borderlands, a region where the rates of diagnosed type-2 diabetes are estimated to be between 15% and 35% of the population. Specifically, she focused on how the local Mexican-American population responded to the depiction of their region as \u201cthe fattest\u201d and the \u201cthe most obese\u201d in the US. She traced people\u2019s responses to a documentary about their region, Diabetesville, USA; a reality television show Supersize vs. Superskinny; to Gallup Polls; and to epidemiological findings that pinned \u201cfatness\u201d and \u201cobesity\u201d to \u201cMexican culture.\u201d She found that although these multiple forms of media
\nwere circulated in attempts to help people recognize their risk of diabetes, they had the opposite effect: whether or not they were diagnosed with diabetes, people interpreted the media as depicting others.Her most recent publication, \u201cChronic Subjunctivity, or, How Physicians Use Diabetes and Insomnia to Manage Futures in the United States,\u201d addresses the issue of prognostication, or predictions of the future, in allopathic medicine.
\nShe is beginning work on her book, tentatively entitled, Humiliation of the Particular: Publicity and the Ever-Present Body as Text.<\/p>\n

At MHS, Callahan-Kapoor teaches Politics of Health, Theories of the Body, and one upper-level seminar per year. In all of her classes, students engage in collaborative knowledge production, such as online encyclopedias and nontraditional
\nproducts, such as video papers. \uf062<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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