About Emily Mendenhall: Emily Mendenhall is a medical anthropologist, Professor, and Director of the Science, Technology, and International Affairs Program in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. She has published widely at the boundaries of anthropology, psychology, medicine, and public health. This work focuses on embodied experiences of trauma and diabetes, syndemic theory, mental health and well-being, complex chronic illnesses, and the politics of pandemics. She has authored Syndemic Suffering (2012), Global Mental Health (2015), Rethinking Diabetes (2019), Unmasked (2022), Savoring Care (2025) and Invisible Illness (2026). She was awarded the George Foster Award for Practicing Anthropology in 2017 from the Society for Medical Anthropology and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2023 from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
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