Prof. Amy Moran-Thomas

Focusing on metabolic and parasitic disorders, her research bridges the anthropology of health and environment (chronic disease; ecological and agricultural change; metabolism and nutrition) with ethnographic studies of science and technology (medical devices; global health chemicals; epigenetic debates; online health communities; technology and kinship). Professor Moran-Thomas has conducted fieldwork and archival research in Belize, Ghana, Brazil and the U.S, supported by the Wenner-Gren Foundation, Mellon-American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), the Woodrow Wilson Society of Fellows, the Rockefeller Archives, the West African Research Association, and the American Philosophical Society. Her current book project, blending non-fiction stories and science writing with ethnographic and historical analyses, offers a humanistic account of the global diabetes epidemic.