Senior Lecturer<\/p>\n
Vanderbilt University, Center for Medicine, Health, and Society<\/p>\n
celina.callahan.kapoor@vanderbilt.edu<\/p>\n
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POSITIONS HELD<\/strong><\/p>\n Senior Lecturer, Vanderbilt University Center for Medicine, Health, and Society. August 2016 –<\/p>\n <\/p>\n EDUCATION<\/strong><\/p>\n Ph.D.\u00a0\u00a0 University of California, Santa Cruz. Degree Conferred, June 2016.<\/p>\n Dissertation Title:<\/em> Difference and Distinction: Diabetic Publics in the U.S.\/Mexico Borderlands<\/p>\n Committee<\/em> Danilyn Rutherford (Chair, co-advisor); Matthew Wolf-Meyer (co-advisor), Charles Briggs, Nancy Chen.<\/p>\n M.A.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Anthropology, Wayne State University, 2008.<\/p>\n B.A.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Social Thought & Political Economy. University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1997.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n AWARDS <\/strong><\/p>\n 2016\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Richard Randolph Graduate Student Paper Prize, University of California, Santa Cruz<\/p>\n FELLOWSHIPS<\/strong><\/p>\n 2015\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 UC President\u2019s Dissertation-Year Fellowship<\/p>\n 2014 \u00a0\u00a0 UCSC Department of Anthropology Summer Travel Grant<\/p>\n 2012\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 UC MEXUS Dissertation Research Grant<\/p>\n 2012\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Wenner-Gren Dissertation Fieldwork Grant<\/p>\n 2012\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 National Science Foundation (NSF) Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant<\/p>\n 2011\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 UC MEXUS Student Research Small Grant<\/p>\n 2010\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 UC Santa Cruz Science & Justice Fellowship Program<\/p>\n 2010\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Chicano Latino Resource Center Mini-Grant<\/p>\n 2010\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Department of Anthropology, Regents Fellowship<\/p>\n 2008\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Graduate Professional Scholarship, Wayne State University<\/p>\n <\/p>\n PUBLICATIONS<\/strong><\/p>\n 2016\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Clinical Rationality and Chronic Subjunctivity, Or, How Physicians use Diabetes and Insomnia to Manage Everyday Life in the United States. <\/em>Co-authored with Matthew Wolf-Meyer. Medical Anthropology.<\/em><\/p>\n Web-based publications<\/strong><\/p>\n 2013\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Invisible Interlocutors and the Savage Slot: Conversations at \u201cMedicine on the Edge.\u201d Guest post for Somatosphere. http:\/\/somatosphere.net\/2013\/07\/invisible-interlocutors-and-the-savage-slot-conversations-at-medicine-on-the-edge.html. July 18.<\/p>\n 2013\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Medicine and Science, Unpredicted. Guest post for Somatosphere.net. http:\/\/somatosphere.net\/2013\/06\/medicine-and-science-unpredicted.html. June 17.<\/p>\n Works in Progress<\/strong><\/p>\n In preparation. <\/em>Exiting Diabetesville: Living Under the Spectre of Diabetes in the Borderlands.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n CONFERENCE ACTIVITY<\/strong><\/p>\n Panels Organized<\/strong><\/p>\n 2016\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Epidemiography and the Inscription of Public Health. Society for Cultural Anthropology Bienniel Meeting. Ithaca, NY. May 13th<\/sup>. Panel Co-Chair.<\/p>\n 2015 \u00a0\u00a0 Presumptive Diagnosis: Locating Temporal Bodies Through Biomedicine and Scientific Knowledge. American Anthropological Association Meeting. Denver, CO. November 20th<\/sup>. Panel Co-Chair.<\/p>\n Papers Presented<\/strong><\/p>\n 2016\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Contemporary Colonialisms in the US\/Mexico Borderlands?: Locating the Colonial Present in Diabetes Care. American Anthropological Association. Denver, CO. November 18th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n 2016\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cMediating the Region, Mediating Diabetes: Portable Pandemic in Statistics and Film.\u201d Society for Cultural Anthropology. Ithaca, NY. May 13th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n 2015\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cIndians, Inbreeding, and Ethnic Blood: Diabetes as Time and Scale-making.\u201d American Anthropological Association Meeting. Denver, CO. November 18-22nd<\/sup>.<\/p>\n 2015\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cDisabling Citizenship: gatekeepers and signature deferral.\u201d American Ethnological Society Meeting. San Diego, CA. March 12-15.<\/p>\n 2014\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cHumanitarianism at Home: caring for bodies, doing good work.\u201d American Anthropological Association Meeting. Washington, D.C. December 3-7.<\/p>\n 2014\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cChemicals, Chronic Conditions, and Causation Narratives: diabetes, defoliant exposure, and agrochemicals in the Rio Grande Valley.\u201d Society for Cultural Anthropology. Detroit, MI. May 9-10.<\/p>\n 2014\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cDon\u2019t Quote me on That<\/em>\u201d: Public and Private Conversations about Diabetes. Society for Applied Anthropology\/Society for Medical Anthropology. Albuquerque, NM. March 18-22.<\/p>\n 2010\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cExceptionally Normal Spaces? Bodies and Borderlands in the United States.\u201d Presented at Ethnographic Engagements Workshop. University of California, Santa Cruz.<\/p>\n 2008\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em>\u201cTroubling the Concept of Stigma.\u201d American Anthropological Association Meeting. San Francisco, CA. November 19-23.<\/p>\n 2008\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201c<\/em>Unraveling the black box of HIV\/AIDS-related stigma: From individual narratives to systems of power.\u201d <\/em>Society for Applied Anthropology\/Society for Medical Anthropology. March 25-29.<\/p>\n 2004\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cDisclosure, Community Responsibility, Peer Advocacy and Trust: Mount Sinai patients respond to the SHAST Project.\u201d HRSA (Human Resource Service Administration) and EPPEC (Enhancing Prevention with Positives Education Center). Washington, DC. November 20-22.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n RESEARCH EXPERIENCE<\/strong><\/p>\n 2012-2014\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n Doctoral Dissertation Research, <\/strong>Lower Rio Grande Valley, Texas.<\/p>\n Conducted two years of participant observation, ethnographic interviews, and media analysis of the social, political, and economic situatedness of diabetes.<\/p>\n 2007-2008\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n Principal Investigator. \u201cRecombinant Possibilities: A Study into Americans and their dogs as a form of American Kinship.\u201d <\/strong>Ann Arbor and Detroit, Michigan.\u00a0 Interviewed 20 families, conducted participant observation during pet adoptions, and used visual and mapping techniques.<\/p>\n 2007\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n Research Assistant, Hannan Archival Research Project. <\/strong>Wayne State University.<\/p>\n Interdisciplinary archival research on women\u2019s experience with foundation support before social security.<\/p>\n 2004-2007\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Research Assistant,<\/strong> Mount Sinai Hospital, Chicago, Illinois. HIV Prevention Project. Interviewed patients, conducted medical chart reviews, coded and analyzed data for multiple article submissions.<\/p>\n TEACHING EXPERIENCE<\/strong><\/p>\n Instructor<\/strong><\/p>\n Statistics & the Self, Vanderbilt University, Center for Medicine, Health, and Society (Spring 2017)<\/p>\n Theories of the Body, Vanderbilt University, Center for Medicine, Health, and Society (Spring 2017)<\/p>\n Politics of Health, Vanderbilt University, Center for Medicine, Health, and Society (Fall & Spring 2016)<\/p>\n Bodies and Borders, Smith College, Latino and Latin American Studies (Winter 2015)<\/p>\n Teaching Assistantships<\/strong><\/p>\n Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, UC Santa Cruz, Anthropology. (Spring 2009)<\/p>\n Anthropology and Law, UC Santa Cruz, Anthropology. (Winter 2009)<\/p>\n Race and Anthropology, UC Santa Cruz, Anthropology. (Fall 2009)<\/p>\n Inside Mexico, UC Santa Cruz, Anthropology. (Winter 2010)<\/p>\n Human Functional Anatomy, UC Santa Cruz, Anthropology. (Winter 2010)<\/p>\n Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, UC Santa Cruz, Anthropology. (Spring 2011)<\/p>\n Invited Lectures<\/strong><\/p>\n 2015\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cMediating Diabetes: rethinking the truth in numbers.\u201d Writing Ethnography for Public Health. Hunter College, School of Urban Public Health.<\/p>\n 2014\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cChronic Publics and Colonial Pasts: Fieldwork Considerations in the Texas\/Mexico borderlands.\u201d ANTH 4315\/6315: Field Experience in the Borderlands. University of Texas, Pan American.<\/p>\n RESEARCH INTERESTS<\/strong><\/p>\n Chronic illness and everyday life; national identity and belonging; borderlands; normalcy; publics; ethnographic methods; colonialism and bodies; health disparities and the concept of \u2018health\u2019; science and technology studies. SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION<\/strong><\/p>\n Ethnographic Engagements Workshop. Student Coordinator, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Cruz. 2009-2011<\/p>\n Graduate Student Representative to the Anthropology Faculty. Wayne State University Department of Anthropology. 2008<\/p>\n POSITIONS HELD<\/strong><\/p>\n Society for Cultural Anthropology, Assistant. January 2010-June 2011.<\/p>\n Medical Anthropology Quarterly<\/em>, Editorial Assistant. May 2008 \u2013 August 2008.<\/p>\n LANGUAGES<\/strong><\/p>\n Spanish: Spoken, advanced; Reading and Writing, intermediate.<\/p>\n PROFESSIONAL TRAINING<\/strong><\/p>\n Rapid Ethnographic Assessment Technique: Group data collection, analysis and report preparation.<\/p>\n Research Talk, Inc. Training: Introduction to atlas.ti, memos, coding and analysis techniques.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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.\u00a0\u00a0 University of California, Santa Cruz. Degree … Continue reading
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