Sienna R. Craig

|Professor
Academic Appointments
  • Jane & Raphael Bernstein Professor in Asian Studies

  • Professor, Department of Anthropology

  • House Professor, South House

  • Asian Societies, Cultures, and Languages Program

  • Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program

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The worlds of healing across culture, the meanings people ascribe to illness, and the social lives of medicines fascinate me. My work is also attuned to how people navigate processes of migration and social change - how families, communities, and cultures endure and support each other while living translocal lives. I am engaged in work on women's and children's health, global health, traditional medicine, and aging across cultures. My research takes me to the Nepal Himalaya and Tibetan regions of China, as well as to diasporic communities from these regions now living in the United States. 

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Contact

(603) 646-9356
Silsby, Room 403B
HB 6047

Education

  • B.A. Brown University (1995)
  • M.A. Cornell University (2002)
  • Ph.D. Cornell University (2006)

Selected Publications

  • 2023    Transgression, Ransom, Cure. Medical Anthropology Quarterly. Peer reviewed essay in "Telling Stories from the Limits of Health and Medicine," a special issue edited by A. Neely and L. Meek. DOI: 10.1111/maq.12755.

  • 2023 The Co-Production of Disasters: How the Nexus of Climate Change, Tourism, and COVID-19 Increases Socioeconomic Vulnerability in Mustang, Nepal. E. Amburgey, T.G. Gurung, Y.T. Gurung and S.R. Craig. Critical Asian Studies, 55:2, 211-234. https://doi.org/10.1080/14672715.2023.2174891

  • 2023    Teacher – A Work of Flash Ethnography. Anthropology Now. 14(1-2): 136-139.

  • 2022  Tibetan Medicine Production in Nepal: Industrial Aspirations, Cooperative Relations, and Precarious Production. C. Blaikie and S.R. Craig. In S. Kloos and C. Blaikie, eds. Asian Medical Industries: Contemporary Perspectives on Traditional Pharmaceuticals. London: Routledge, 253-279.

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