Faculty
Arthur Kleinman
Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor of Anthropology in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Medical Anthropology in the Faculty of Medicine
- AB, MD Stanford University
- MA, Harvard University
- telephone: (617) 495-3846
- office: William James Hall 330
- faculty assistant: Marilyn Goodrich
- faculty assistant telephone: (617) 496-8336
On leave 2007–2008.
Arthur Kleinman has worked for three decades as a medical anthropologist, both in the Department of Anthropology at Harvard and in the Department of Social Medicine at the Harvard Medical School. A physician-anthropologist, from 1991 to 2000 he chaired Harvard’s Department of Social Medicine. He is presently the chair of the Department of Anthropology. His current research interests include the experience of chronic illness, social suffering, depression, emerging infectious diseases, substance abuse, suicide, political violence, trauma, aging, ethnicity, and disabilities. The author of 5 books, co-editor of 20 volumes, and with more than 180 research and review articles and chapters, he has just completed a new book on moral experience and global social change.