Mind, Medicine, and Culture (M.M.A.C.)


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Regularly participating faculty include:

Carol H. Browner (Anthropology, Ph.D., UCB 1976; MPH, UCB 1977; Professor, Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences and Anthropology) Medical anthropology, medicalization processes, gender politics and reproduction, new reproductive technologies; Latin America, U.S Latinos.

Linda Garro (Psychology, Ph.D., Duke 1982; Social Sciences, Ph.D., UCI 1983; Professor, Anthropology)Cognitive anthropology, medical anthropology, research methods; Mesoamerica, northern North America.

Douglas Hollan (Anthropology, Ph.D., UCSD 1984; Professor, Anthropology) Psychological and cultural anthropology; ethnopsychology; cross-cultural psychiatry; person-centered ethnography; Indonesia, Oceania.

Allen Johnson (Anthropology, Ph.D., Stanford 1968; Professor, Anthropology and Psychiatry) Cultural and political ecology, research design, psychological anthropology; native South America, Latin American communities.

Steven Lopez (Psychology, Ph.D., UCLA 1983; Professor, Psychology and Psychiatry) Sociocultural factors in psychopathology, psychological assessment, intervention; Latino mental health.

Cheryl Mattingly (Anthropology and Urban Studies, Ph.D., MIT 1989; Professor, Anthropology and Occupational Therapy USC) Therapeutic processes; narrative and clinical reasoning; the phenomenology of healing, race and health disparities, North America.

Elinor Ochs (Anthropology, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania 1974; Professor, Anthropology)Discourse structures, grammar in context, language and affect, spoken and written language. Language acquisition and language socialization (development/transmission of sociocultural knowledge through language, socialization of cognitive skills through language). Cross-cultural communication. Madagascar, Samoa, U.S., Italy.

Thomas S. Weisner (Anthropology, Ph.D., Harvard University 1973; Professor, Psychiatry and Anthropology)Culture, human development and the family, child rearing, developmental delay, economically poor families, methods; Africa, United States.

C. Jason Throop (Anthropology, UCLA, 2005, Assistant Professor). Psychological and Medical Anthropology, phenomenology, theories of experience and selfhood, empathy/pain/emotion, morality, Yap (Federated States of Micronesia)