Name: William Hill Winstead Year of Graduation: 2013 Major: History Minor: Medical Anthropology “Both anthropology and history equipped me with a different mindset and lens through which I can see the world.” Educational History Why did you decide to pursue … Read more

Patient-Centered Care: How Anthropology is Innovating Healthcare It’s a Skype interview, but the hustle and bustle of the café Felipe Dest has settled down in reflects the fast track his life is currently on. After graduating from UNC with an … Read more

“Five years out, I utilize the praxis of medical anthropology daily.” UNC Chapel Hill Alumni Sarah Stoneking, MD, discusses how medical anthropology helped her find her place in the medical world by Cameron Catherine, Will Grine, Sierra Reid, Jinah Han, … Read more

Sarah Sexton: “Promotion of Health Access in Peru’s Sacred Valley” As I placed my feet onto the red-eye flight to Lima, Peru I instantly felt a rush of emotions that had been building up in my stubborn self for several … Read more

Bobby Nieland: “Life and death” I believe that my personal discovery of the field of medical anthropology, though occurring relatively late in my time at university, has nonetheless been one of the most influential aspects of the liberal arts education … Read more

Kelsey Ludwig: “It’s like wearing new glasses” I took my first medical anthropology course during the spring semester of my freshman year. I realized I was hooked to the field in the middle of a lecture in Professor Rivkin-Fish’s Comparative … Read more

Hannah Friedman: “Flailing with Dignity: How the Medical Anthropological Lens Allowed Me to Interpret and Cope with My Grandmother’s Death” In October my grandmother died. I’m still not sure what to say Meme died from – she had early onset … Read more