Postdoctoral Fellows

Kelly McKinney

Ph.D. 2003 City University of New York, Department of Anthropology
M.A. 1990 Duquesne University, Department of Psychology

"Beyond Care and Control: Therapeutic Interventions for Survivors of Torture and Refugee Trauma."
Studied torture programs in NYC and Copenhagen, Denmark.

Research interests: trauma, PTSD, anthropology of psychiatry

Current research: Co-Director, Three-Year Standard Operating Grant, Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Project Title: Adolescents, Psychopharmaceuticals and Coming of Age in Canada (Principal Investigator: Laurence Kirmayer), McGill University, Departments of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry and the Social Studies of Medicine, 2006-2009

Recent publications:

McKinney, K. (2007) Culture, power and practice in a psychosocial program for survivors of torture and refugee trauma. Transcultural Psychiatry 44(3):513-535.

McKinney, K. (2007) Breaking the conspiracy of silence: Testimony, traumatic memory and psychotherapy with survivors of political violence. Ethos 35(3):265-299.

Moses, J, & McKinney, K. Anthropological perspectives on trauma. In G. Reyes, J. Elhai & J. Ford, (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Psychological Trauma. New York: Wiley & Sons (forthcoming 2008).

McKinney, K. Consuming an edge: Ritalin and the psychiatrization of corporate university (under review)

Nina Kohli-Laven

Ph.D. 2009 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Anthropology
M.I.A 2002 Columbia University, School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA)
B.A. 1999 Wesleyan University, Government

Research Interest: technology development strategies, human-technology interface, technology law and governance.

Current Inquiries: How regulatory, clinical, and scientific theory and practice shape product development, validation, and distribution within genomic medicine and biotechnology.

Recent publications:

2009 Mapping Fate: Genealogy, Genetic Medicine, and Matters of Race and Intimacy on the North American Frontier. In Keith Wailoo, Mia Bay, and Alondra Nelson, eds. DNA and the Unsettled Past: The Collision between Genomics, Race, and History, Rutgers University Press, Forthcoming June 2010.

Eugene Raikhel

Ph.D., 2006 Princeton University, Department of Anthropology
Dissertation: “Governing habits: addiction and the therapeutic market in contemporary Russia.”

Research interests: Biomedicine, science and society; anthropology of psychiatry; addiction and substance dependence; addiction medicine and psychiatry; culture and mental health; placebos, suggestion and healing; knowledge translation; globalization and post-socialist transformations; Russia, Eurasia and Europe; North America.

Publications:

Amir Raz, Eugene Raikhel & Ran Anbar. 2008. “Placebos in Medicine: Knowledge, Beliefs and Patterns of Use.” McGill Journal of Medicine, 11(2): 206-211.

Eugene Raikhel. 2009. “Institutional Encounters: Identification and Anonymity in Russian Addiction Treatment (and Ethnography).” In Being There: The Fieldwork Encounter and the Making of Truth, John Borneman and Abdellah Hammoudi eds. University of California Press.

Laurence J. Kirmayer & Eugene Raikhel. 2009, forthcoming. [Editorial] “From Amrita to Substance D: Psychopharmacology, Political Economy, and Technologies of the Self.” ,Transcultural Psychiatry, 46(1).

Visiting Scholars

Jörg Niewöhner

Ph.D. 2001 University of East Anglia, UK, Centre for Environmental Risk

Research interests: How does culture get under the skin? epigenetics, cardiovascular disease, prevention.

Work at McGill: Genealogy, practice and consequences of current work in epigenetics with a particular focus on behaviour. Is there a role for ethnography?

Work in Berlin: Research associate and co-principal investigator of the Research Cluster: Preventive Self at Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany, Department of European Ethnology. Coordinator of the Laboratory: Social Anthropology & Lifesciences. Editor of the book series MatteRealities at transcript.

Recent publications:

Niewöhner, J. (in print). Traveling through borderlands - three enactments of cardiovascular phenomena.Emerging Diseases. M. Döring and R. Kollek. Bielefeld, transcript.

Beck, S. and J. Niewöhner (2009). Localizing Genetic Testing and Screening in Cyprus and Germany: contingencies, continuities, ordering effects and bio-cultural intimacy. Handbook of Genetics and Society. Mapping the New Genomic Era. London, Routledge.

Niewöhner, J et al (eds), 2008, “How does culture get under the skin? Emergent practice at the intersection of medicine, social– and lifesciences”,. Bielefeld, transcript. (in German)

Lipphardt, V. and J. Niewöhner (2007). Producing difference in an age of biosociality. Biohistorical narratives, standardisation and resistance as translations . Science, Technology & Innovation Studies 3(1): 45-66.

Beck, S. and J. Niewöhner (2006). Somatographic investigations across levels of complexity. BioSocieties 1(2): 219-227.