Project Leaders

WARWICK ANDERSON, M.D., Ph.D.,

Currently chair of the Department of Medical History and Bioethics, Warwick Anderson has written on American colonial psychoanalysis in the Philippines and on the work of Geza Roheim in central Australia. He is also the author of a number of influential historiographic essays on colonial medicine and psychiatry. His book, The Cultivation of Whiteness: Science, Health and Racial Destiny in Australia, received the 2004 W.K. Hancock Prize, the major book award of the Australian Historical Association. A book manuscript, Colonial Pathologies, which focuses on medicine and race in the colonial Philippines is forthcoming with Duke University Press. Both books include extensive discussions of colonial mental health and breakdown.

Email: whanderson@med.wisc.edu

 

RICHARD KELLER, PH.D.

Also in the Medical History Department, Rick Keller has recently completed his dissertation on colonial psychoanalysis and psychiatry in North Africa. The thesis, Action Psychologique: French Psychiatry in Colonial North Africa, 1900-1962, received the 2002 Forum for the History of Human Sciences Dissertation Prize, and is the basis of the book manuscript he is now completing. He is also the author of a number of articles and book chapters on colonialism, psychiatry and race. In the course of the project on Colonialism and Psychoanalysis, Dr. Keller will explore the legacy of these themes in the postcolonial era through his new research on the politics of ethnopsychoanalysis in a globalizing France. Dr. Keller will co-author the introductions to the edited volumes with Dr. Anderson which will stem from the conference planned for October, 2005.

Email: rckeller@wisc.edu

 

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