Everything about Jo O Biehl totally explained
João Biehl is an
anthropologist currently based at
Princeton University. He specializes in
medical anthropology and is the winner of the
Rudolph Virchow Award given by the
Society for Medical Anthropology. His interests include medical anthropology, social studies of science and technology, psychological anthropology, globalization and development, Latin American societies.
Career
João Biehl earned his Ph.D. in
Anthropology at the
University of California, Berkeley in 1999. He also earned a Ph.D. from the
Graduate Theological Union at Berkeley in 1996 in
Religion/
Interdisciplinary Studies. Biehl was a
National Institute of Mental Health Postdoctoral Fellow at
Harvard University (1998-2000); a member of the
Institute for Advanced Study,
Princeton (2002-03 and 2005-06); and a visiting professor at the
Ecole des Hautes Etudes,
Paris (2004). He teaches
medical anthropology and courses on science, technology and society, cultural globalization, and social theory. Professor Biehl held the
Harold Willis Dodds Presidential University Fellowship (2004-2006) and received the
Presidential Distinguished Teaching Award in 2005.
He is currently writing the history of a fratricidal war—the
Mucker war—that took place among
German immigrants in 1874 in southern
Brazil. His current
ethnographic research focuses on domestic crimes and the monetarization of
kinship ties in that region.
Biography
Biehl has a son Andre Biehl with his partner
Adriana Petryna, also an anthropologist.
Publications
He is also the co-editor of
Subjectivity: Ethnographic Investigations (
University of California Press 2007).
His work has been published in
American Ethnologist;
Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry;
Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies;
Public Culture; and
Social Text.
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