Speaker
Katie Kilroy-Marac, Anthropology, University of Toronto
Title
Notes on the Emergence of Hoarding as Mental Illness and Public Health Hazard
Abstract
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Bio
Katie Kilroy-Marac received her PhD in Anthropology from Columbia University. Her research considers the social history of psychiatric thought, the evolution and naturalization of psychiatric categories, and the spaces in which local understandings of illness and suffering come into contact with (Western) psychiatric models. She is currently working on a book manuscript entitled An Impossible Inheritance: Postcolonial Psychiatry and the Work of Memory in a West African Clinic based fieldwork conducted at the Fann Psychiatric Clinic in Dakar, Senegal. Her latest ethnographic research examines the emergence of hoarding as both mental disorder and public health hazard in North America.