Prof. Dr. Robert R. Desjarlais

Profile

Academic positionFull Professor
Research fieldsSocial and Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology,Asian Studies
KeywordsColonialism, Critical Medical Anthropology, Psychological Anthropology, Images, Social and Cultural Anthropology

Current contact address

CountryUnited States of America
CityBronxville
InstitutionSarah Lawrence College
InstituteDepartment of Anthropology

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Anita von PoserMartin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale)
Start of initial sponsorship02/11/2022

Programme(s)

2022Humboldt Research Award Programme

Nominator's project description

Professor Desjarlais is well known internationally for his outstanding work in psychological and phenomenological anthropology, critical medical anthropology and public anthropology. He has made important contributions to the study of homelessness in the United States. Furthermore, he has worked on life, death and healing in Nepal as well as on political violence and colonialism in France. In Germany, he will engage in collaborative anthropological research on themes of death and dying, and on affects and colonial aftermaths.