Name: Kevin P. Groark

Education:
Ph.D. in Anthropology (2005, UCLA);
Ph.D. in Psychoanalysis (In Process, New Center for Psychoanalysis)

Occupation:
Anthropologist (Medical/Psychological Anthropology)

Current Positions:
Assistant Professor (University of Southern California)
Clinical Research Associate / Eisenstein-Gabe Research Fellow
(New Center for Psychoanalysis)

Geographical Specializations:
Latin America / Mesoamerica (Highland Maya)

Research Topics:
Culture & Emotion • Ethnomedicine • Medical Ethnobiology • Ritual Curing • Illness and Healing • Medical Change • Cultural Psychodynamics • Dreaming • Ethnoepistemology • Psychoanalytic Theory • Religious Conversion • Urbanization

What I'm Reading :
The Lacanian Subject (Bruce Fink) • The Night Battles: Witchcraft and Agrarian Cults in Sixteenth Century Europe (Carlo Ginzburg) • The Fabric of Affect in the Psychoanalytic Discourse (Andre Green)

What I'm Listening To:
• Iron & Wine - Around the Well (Love Vigilantes Cover = A+)
• Nina Simone - Best Of
• Vicky Cristina Barcelona - Soundtrack