Bio

Nia Parson is a medical and cultural anthropologist whose scholarship focuses on traumatic experience, especially in migrant populations and among women in intimate relationships in Chile and the United States. She is the author of Traumatic States: Gendered Violence, Suffering, and Care in Chile (Vanderbilt University Press, 2013), as well as various articles that have appeared in journals like Medical Anthropological Quarterly, Human Organization, and Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry. Parson's research has been funded by organizations like the Wenner-Gren Foundation and the Hogg Foundation for Mental Health Research.

Research Interests

Trauma • Violence • Gender • Integrative Health Practices • Chile

Courses Taught

First Year Seminar in Anthropology • Introductory Cultural Anthropology • Health, Healing and Ethics • Introduction to Medical Anthropology • Gender Violence • Health as a Human Right • Seminar in International Health • Health in Cross-Cultural Perspective • Resilience: Ethnography, Ethics, and Care • Biomedicine, Culture, and Power • Anthropology and Medicine • Advanced Seminar in Ethnology: Violence and Health • Current Anthropological Literature