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Research interests
Psychological anthropology, evidence and knowledge production, crisis and temporality, narrative, experience, and transformation, participatory-collaborative research
Research areas
Germany, Switzerland, Austria, South Tyrol, US
Profile
I am a psychological anthropologist whose research focuses on mental health, cultures of care, economics of health care systems and institutions and situated and collaborative forms of knowledge production. In Germany, where I conducted long-term ethnographic fieldwork, I studied the integrated care practices for psychiatric crisis, looking at how professionals and clients navigate competing temporal horizons, institutional and social precarity, and create durable cultures of work through the distribution of authority and dialogic solidarity.
My work has been published in journals including Cultural Anthropology, Medical Anthropology, Transcultural Psychiatry, Qualitative Research Methods, Health Expectations, Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry, and Social Science and Medicine – Mental Health, among others.
I am the editor, with Rebecca Lester, of the edited volume, Ethnographies of Loss, Longing, and the Afterlives of Care: Remnants of Attachment, forthcoming with Routledge in 2026.
My new research project, Situated Care: Subjectivity, Knowledge, and Labor, focuses on the practice of peer support in mental health care across the German speaking countries. This project will examine lived experience as a form of situated knowledge production, and the shifting politics of mental health reform, activism, and work in the late liberal welfare state.