Rebecca Seligman is a medical and psychological anthropologist who studies mental health in cross-cultural perspective. Her work examines the social and political-economic forces that affect the experience and distribution of mental and physical illness, with an emphasis on physical processes and mechanisms. Her current research includes work on the links between diabetes and depressed affect among Mexican Americans, as well as an investigation of the disproportionately high levels of depression, anxiety, and suicidality among Latino youth in the US. She is the author of Possessing Spirits and Healing Selves: Embodiment and Transformation in an Afro-Brazilian Religion.
Buffett Institute Faculty & Fellows Colloquium
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Rebecca Seligman, Anthropology