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Curriculum Vitae

LAWRENCE COHEN
Dept. of Anthropology
232 Kroeber Hall
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720

510-642-2248
510-642-3392
510-643-8557 fax
cohen@berkeley.edu email

2003-present
Director, Medical Anthropology Program
Associate Professor of South and Southeast Asian Studies and of Anthropology, UC Berkeley. 

1999-present
Associate Professor of South and Southeast Asian Studies and of Anthropology, UC Berkeley.

1998-1999
Associate Professor of Anthropology, UC Berkeley.

1992-1998
Assistant Professor of Anthropology, UC Berkeley.

EDUCATION

• Ph.D. Anthropology, Harvard University. Graduate Teaching Prize, 1992
• A.M. Anthropology, Harvard University, 1992
• A.B. summa cum laude, Study of Religion, Harvard University, 1993.
  • Hoopes Dissertation Prize
  • Detur Prize
  • Phi Beta Kappa

NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL AWARDS

Prizes for No Aging in India:

• 2003 -- J.I. Staley Prize, School of American Research.
• 1999 -- American Ethnological Society First Book Prize.
• 1999 -- Wellcome Medal, Honorable Mention, Wellcome Institute.
• 1998 -- Victor Turner Prize, Society for Humanistic Anthropology.

RECENT HONORS

2006 -- Munro Lectureship, University of Edinburgh.
2006 -- Guest Fellow, Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla.
2004 -- Keynote Speaker, Israeli Anthropological Association Annual Conference.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

2006

• Thinking about dementia: Culture, Loss, and the Anthropology of Senility.  Annette Leibing and Lawrence Cohen, eds., with introductory essay by Lawrence Cohen, Piscataway: Rutgers University Press. 
• “The Kothi Wars: AIDS Cosmopolitanism and the Morality of Classification,” in Vincanne Adams and Stacy Leigh Pigg, eds., Sex in Development: Science, Sexuality, and Morality in Global Perspective.  Pp. 269-303.  Durham: Duke University Press.

2004

• “Operability, Bioavailability, and Exception,” in Aihwa Ong and Stephen Collier, eds. Global Assemblages: Technology, Politics, and Ethics as Anthropological Problems.  Pp. 79-90.  Oxford: Blackwell. 

2004

• “Operability: Surgery at the Margins of the State,” in Veena Das and Deborah Poole, eds., Anthropology in the Margins of the State.  Pp. 165-190.  Santa Fe: School  of American Research Press.

2003

• “Senility and Irony’s Age.” Social Analysis 47 (2, Summer): 122-134.

2003

• “Old Age and the Global Economy of Knowledge,” in Veena Das, ed., The Oxford India Companion to Sociology and Social Anthropology.  Pp. 956-973. New Delhi: Oxford.

2002

• “What Mrs. Besahara Saw: Reflections on the Gay Goonda,” in Ruth Vanita, ed., Queering India: Same-Sex Love and Eroticism in Indian Culture and Society, pp. 149-160.  New York: Routledge.

2001

• “The Other Kidney: Biopolitics beyond Recognition.” Body and Society 7 (2-3, June-September):9-29.

1999

• “Where It Hurts: Indian Material for an Ethics of Organ Transplantation.” Daedalus 128 (4, Fall):135-165.

1999

• “The History of Semen: Notes on a Culture-bound Syndrome.”  Medicine and the History of the Body.  Tokyo: Ishiyaku EuroAmerica.

1998

• No Aging in India: Alzheimer’s, the Bad Family, and Other Modern Things.  Berkeley, University of California Press. [Indian edition: No Aging in India: Modernity, Senility, and the Family, Oxford University Press, 1999.]

1997

• “Semen, Irony, and the Atom Bomb,” Medical Anthropology Quarterly 11(3):301-303. 

1995

• “Toward an Anthropology of Senility: Anger, Weakness, and Alzheimer’s in Banaras, India,” Medical Anthropology Quarterly 9(3):314-334.

1995

• “The Pleasures of Castration: The Postoperative Status of Hijras, Jankhas, and Academics.” Sexual Nature, Sexual Culture. Paul Abramson and Steven Pinkerton, eds. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Pp. 276-304.

1995 

• The Epistemological Carnival: Meditations on Disciplinary Intentionality and Ayurveda. Knowledge and the Scholarly Medical Traditions.  Don Bates, ed. Pp. 320-343.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

1995

• “Holi in Banaras and the Mahaland of Modernity,”  GLQ 2:399-424.

1995

• “Postcolonial India and the Enormity of AIDS,” Naz ki Pukaar 9(April):17-20.

1995 

• “Editor’s Note: Travelling Therapies.” Asian Medicine Newsletter 5 (N.S.):1, 4.

1994

• “Old Age: Cultural and Critical Perspectives,” Annual Review of Anthropology 23:137-58.

1994

• “Whodunit?—Violence and the Myth of Fingerprints: Comment on Harding,” Configurations 2:343-47.

1992 

• “No Aging in India: The Uses of Gerontology,” Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry 16:123-61. 

1991

• “The Wives of Ganesa.” Ganesh: Studies of an Asian God. Robert L. Brown, ed. Pp. 115-139. Albany: SUNY Press.

 

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