Kevin started following the work of Aimee Plourde, The University of Sheffield, Philosophy.
Kevin started following the work of Merav Shohet, University of Toronto, Anthropology.
Kevin started following the work of Amanda Foran, University of Southern California, Occupational Science & Occupational Therapy.
University of California, Los Angeles
Alumnus, Anthropology
New Center for Psychoanalysis, NCP Training Institute
Clinical Research Associate
About
EDUCATION:
• Ph.D. in Anthropology (2005, UCLA);
• Ph.D. in Psychoanalysis (In Process, New Center for Psychoanalysis)
PROFESSIONAL LICENSURE:
• Research Psychoanalyst (Student)—Lic. No. RP230, Medical Board of California, Division of Allied Health Professionals.
GEOGRAPHICAL SPECIALIZATION:
• Latin America / Mesoamerica (Highland Maya)
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Culture & Emotion • Ethnomedicine • Ethnobiology • Ritual Curing • Illness and Healing • Medical Change • Cultural Psychodynamics • Dreaming • Ethnoepistemology • Psychoanalytic Theory • Social Theory • Religious Conversion • Urbanization
OVERVIEW OF RESEARCH:
Broadly framed, my research interests are situated at the intersection of medical, psychological, and linguistic anthropology, with an area specialization in indigenous Latin America (Mesoamerica).
I earned my Ph.D. in Anthropology from UCLA’s interdisciplinary Program in Medical and Psychological Anthropology. As a complement to my anthropological training, I am also completing a postgraduate Ph.D. in Psychoanalysis at the New Center for Psychoanalysis.
I have an established and ongoing program of ethnomedical and ethnopsychological research among the Tzotzil & Tzeltal Maya of highland Chiapas in southeastern Mexico, among whom I have carried out more than 40 months of fieldwork. Principal research concerns have centered on household diagnostic and therapeutic strategies, religious dimensions of sickness and healing, medical ethnobotany, ethnophysiological understandings of the body in health and illness, the role of emotion and dreams in the folk medical system, and local configurations of empathy and intersubjective awareness. Future research focuses on the impact of urbanization and religious conversion on Highland Maya medical ideology and practice.
In addition to my ongoing research in southern Mexico, I have extensive research experience in indigenous communities in both highland and lowland settings throughout Latin America (Northern Mexico, Peru, and Chile), as well as urban medical anthropological research experience in South Central Los Angeles.
Please feel free to contact me or refer to my CV (see link at left side of page) for additional information.
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