Anthropology of science, technology and society; colonial history and post-colonial relations; nonprofit organizations and transnational experts; humanitarianism and human rights; French Guiana, Uganda.
Relevant Experience:
• 2014 UNC Anthropology, Health, Medicine and Humanity Coordinator
Distinctions:
• 2014-ongoing Academic Excellence Award, UNC Institute for the Arts and Humanities
Dissertations and Theses Supervised in Past 5 Years:
12
Relevant Courses Taught:
• ANTH 147 Comparative Healing • ANTH 280 Anth of War & Peace • ANTH 422 Anth & Human Rights • ANTH 585 Anth of Science & Tech • ANTH 777 Human Rights & Humanitarianism
Recent Publications:
• 2017 Redfield, Peter. "Metrics: What Counts in Global Health. Vincanne Adams, Ed., Durham: Duke University Press, 2016, 258 Pp: Book Review." Medical Anthropology Quarterly (2017).
• 2016 2015 “Shadow Stories” Invited contribution to Somatosphere Film Forum on In the Shadow of Ebola. Somatosphere medical anthropology blog (http://somatosphere.net/forumpost/shadow-stories)
• 2016 2015 “A Measured Good.” Medical Humanitarianism: Ethnographies of Practice (S. Abramowitz and C. Panter-Brick, eds.) University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015, 242-251.
• 2016 in press “Doctors Without Borders and the Global Emergency.” Vital Signs: Medical Anthropology in the 21st Century, L. Manderson, A. Hardon and E. Cartwright, eds. NY: Routledge, 2016
• 2016 in press (with Steven Robins) “An Index of Waste: Humanitarian Design, ‘Dignified Living’ and the Politics of Infrastructure in Cape Town.” Anthropology of Southern Africa, 39: 1 & 2.
• 2016 in press “Imagined Immunities” Invited Comment in theme issue on Clinic in Crisis. Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry.
• 2016 in press “Ebola and the Vulnerable Volunteer.” Volunteer Economies The Politics and Ethics of Voluntary Labour in Africa. R. Prince and H. Brown, eds. James Currey, 2016.
• 2016 in press (with Steven Robins) “Toilets for Africa: Humanitarian Design Meets Sanitation Activism in Khayelitsha, Cape Town.” World Anthropologies in Practice. John Gledhill, ed., Bloomsbury, 2016.
• 2016 2015 “Modernity as a Fragile Milieu” Invited contribution to Somatosphere Book Forum on Richard Keller’s Fatal Isolation Somatosphere medical anthropology blog (http://somatosphere.net/forumpost/modernity-as-a-fragile-milieu)
• 2016 in press Review of When People Come First: Critical Studies in Global Health (Biehl and Petryna), Bulletin of the History of Medicine.
• 2016 2016 “Fluid Technologies: The Bush Pump, the LifeStraw® and Microworlds of Humanitarian Design.” Social Studies of Science, 46(2): 159–183.
• 2015 In press Review of When People Come First: Critical Studies in Global Health, for the Bulletin of the History of Medicine.
• 2015 2014 “Medical Vulnerability, or Where There Is No Kit.” Limn, No. 5: Ebola’s Ecologies. http://limn.it/medical-vulnerability-or-where-there-is-no-kit/
• 2015 Accepted “Fluid Technologies: The Bush Pump, the LifeStraw® and Microworlds of Humanitarian Design.” Social Studies of Science.
• 2015 2015 [in proofs].“A Measured Good.” Medical Humanitarianism: Ethnographies of Practice (S. Abramowitz and C. Panter-Brick, eds.) University of Pennsylvania Press, 242-251.
• 2015 2015 “Modernity as a Fragile Milieu” Invited contribution to Somatosphere Book Forum on Richard Keller’s Fatal Isolation Somatosphere medical anthropology blog (http://somatosphere.net/forumpost/modernity-as-a-fragile-milieu)
• 2015 2015 “A Measured Good.” Medical Humanitarianism: Ethnographies of Practice (S. Abramowitz and C. Panter-Brick, eds.) University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015, 242-251.
• 2015 2015 “Shadow Stories” Invited contribution to Somatosphere Film Forum on In the Shadow of Ebola. Somatosphere medical anthropology blog (http://somatosphere.net/forumpost/shadow-stories)
• 2015 In press.“Doctors Without Borders and the Global Emergency.” Vital Signs: Medical Anthropology in the 21st Century, L. Manderson, A. Hardon and E. Cartwright, eds. NY: Routledge, 2016.
• 2015 2014“Triage sans frontiers.” La médecine du tri: Histoire, éthique, anthropologie (G. Lachenal , C. Lefèvre, and V.K. Nguyen, eds.) Presses Universitaires de France. 81-102.
• 2015 2015 (multi-author commentary with E. Kowal et al.) “The Open Question: Medical Anthropology and Open Access.” Medicine, Anthropology and Theory, vol 2: 1, 75-94. http://www.medanthrotheory.org/read/4998/open-question
• 2014 (I have three articles/chapters in press, one in proofs stage)
• 2014 2014 Entry for “Human” in Commonplaces project, Somatosphere medical anthropology blog (http://somatosphere.net/2014/02/human.html)
• 2014 2014 “Medical Vulnerability, or Where There Is No Kit.” Limn, No. 5: Ebola’s Ecologies. http://limn.it/medical-vulnerability-or-where-there-is-no-kit/
• 2014 2014“Triage sans frontiers.” La médecine du tri: Histoire, éthique, anthropologie (G. Lachenal , C. Lefèvre, and V.K. Nguyen, eds.) Presses Universitaires de France. 81-102.
• 2014 2013 Review of Revolutionary Doctors: How Venezuela and Cuba are Changing the World’s Conception of Health Care (Brouwer), New West Indian Guide 87: 3-4: 65-7.
• 2014 2014 Review of Empire and Underworld: Captivity in French Guiana (Spieler), New West Indian Guide 88: 1-2: 63-65.
• 2013 2013 Review of Revolutionary Doctors: How Venezuela and Cuba are Changing the World’s Conception of Health Care (Brouwer), New West Indian Guide 87: 3-4: 65-7.
• 2013 Redfield, Peter. Life in Crisis: The Ethical Journey of Doctors Without Borders. University of California Press.
• 2012 “Bioexpectations: Life Technologies as Humanitarian Goods.” Public Culture 24: 1 (Feb): 157-184.
• 2012 “The Unbearable Lightness of Expats: Double Binds of Humanitarian Mobility” Cultural Anthropology 27: 2 (May): 358-382.
• 2012 “Humanitarianism.” In A Companion to Moral Anthropology (D. Fassin, ed.) Malden, MA: Blackwell, 451-467.
• 2012 Redfield, Peter, “Sleeping Sickness and the Limits of Biological Citizenship.” In Rethinking Biomedicine and Governance in Africa (W. Geissler, R. Rothenburg and J. Zenker, eds.). Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, 229-249.
• 2011 Bornstein, Erica and Peter Redfield, eds. Forces of Compassion: Humanitarianism Between Ethics and Politics. Santa Fe: School for Advanced Research Press.
• 2010 “The Verge of Crisis: Doctors Without Borders in Uganda.” In Contemporary States of Emergency: The Politics of Military and Humanitarian Interventions (D. Fassin and M. Pandolfi, eds.), Zone Books. 173-195.
• 2008 "Sacrifice, Triage and Global Humanitarianism.” In M. Barnett and T. Weiss eds. Humanitarianism in Question: Politics, Power, Ethics. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 196-214.
• 2008 Redfield, Peter. “Vital Mobility and the Humanitarian Kit.” Biosecurity Interventions: Global Health and Security in Question, A. Lakoff and S. Collier, eds. NY: Columbia University Press, 147-171 (2008).
• 2006 “A Less Modest Witness: Collective Advocacy and Motivated Truth in a Medical Humanitarian Movement” American Ethnologist, 33: 1 (Feb): 3-26.
• 2005 Redfield, Peter. “Doctors, Borders and Life in Crisis” Cultural Anthropology, 20:3: 328-361.
• 2000 Redfield, Peter. Space in the Tropics: From Convicts to Rockets in French Guiana. University of California Press.
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