Around William Robertson
My research interests revolve around questions regarding how biomedical education, training, specialization, and training are co-constitutive with wider cultural standards concerning hazard, gender, and sexuality. Building on my previous study on the part of medication in (re)generating heteronormativity, my dissertation research employs HPV and rectal dysplasia/cancer for a lens by which to analyze the interplay among biomedical expertise, techniques, techniques, engineering, sex, and sexuality. By paying careful attention to the regular clinical methods of screening, identification, and treatment of a sexually transmitted disease that's been highly gendered in public health aims and clinical research, in addition to patient understanding of and experiences of HPV-related rectal disorder, I am hoping to shed light on the cultural assumptions at work from the enactment of both HPV and rectal dysplasia/cancer.
2019 Tough heteronormativity in medication. Back in Routledge Handbook of the Medical Humanities, ed. Alan Bleakley.
2017. "Believe it or Not": The Medical of Rectal Foreign Bodies. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13691058.2016.1263874
2016. Medical Anthropology Quarterly. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/wol1/doi/10.1111/maq.12289/abstract
Courses Taught
At UA:
Summer 2017, 2018 - Instructor for ANTH/GWS/CPH 438A Women's Health in Global Perspective
Spring 2017 - TA for ANTH 150B Many Methods of Being Human
Spring 2016 - TA for ANTH 160D2 Origins of Individual Diversity
At UTSA:
Anthropology of Biomedicine
Gender, Sex & Culture
Kinship & Social Organization
Language, Thought, and Culture
Intro to Cultural Anthropology
Intro to Anthropology (Four-Field)
Honors Tutorial I: Justice
The Civic Ethos
Tasks
I am currently writing up my dissertation according to fieldwork (in June 2018-May 2019) financed by the Wenner-Gren Foundation in a clinic which specializes in treating HPV-related anal disorder at Chicago, Illinois, USA.
I was formerly the Qualitative Data Manager for Dr. Susan Shaw's RxHL job from collapse 2014 through collapse 2016.
Research Interests
Anthropology of the body; sex/gender and sexuality; heteronormativity and homonormativity; biopolitics and governmental anatomy; clinical education/training and the Growth of specialty and experience; anthropology of health, sickness, illness, and illness; HPV; rectal dysplasia/cancer; syndemics of HPV; the politics of social categorization; science and engineering studies; queer health disparities; queer & trans notions; structural violence; social justice movements; science and popular culture
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