Projects

• Aging and its Tropes

  (Columbia University)

• Community Commons

• Humanities in Medicine (HuMed)

  (University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine)

• CHCI Medical Humanities Institute: Global Health (University of Miami)

  (University of Miami)

biography

Adriana María Garriga-López is a cultural anthropologist and multidisciplinary artist. Born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Garriga-López is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Kalamazoo College in Michigan and Associate Faculty at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research. She holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology (2010), as well as Master of Arts (2003) and Master of Philosophy (2006) degrees in Anthropology from Columbia University in New York and a BA (2001) in Cultural Anthropology and Comparative Literature from Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey.

research interests

epidemics, Puerto Rico, Caribbean, climate change, disasters, colonialism, social determinants of health