Emily Avera

Assistant Professor of Anthropology

Department/Office Information

Sociology and Anthropology

Alumni Hall

T 3:00pm - 5:00pm (Alumni Hall)
R 3:00pm - 4:00pm (Alumni Hall)

Contact

Ph.D, Anthropology, Brown University, 2020
M.A., Anthropology, Brown University, 2015
M.A., Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology, Leiden University, 2010
M. Phil, Diversity Studies, University of Cape Town, 2008
B.A., Politics, Pomona College, 2005

Avera, Emily. 2023. “‘Blood Has No Colour:’ Racialized Donor In/Ex-Clusion in the South African National Blood Service.” Medical Anthropology. https://doi.org/10.1080/01459740.2023.2187295.

Avera, Emily. 2009. “Rationalisation and Racialisation in the Rainbow Nation: Inequalities and Identity in the South African Bone Marrow Transplant Network.” Anthropology & Medicine 16 (2): 179. https://doi.org/10.1080/13648470902940648.

Courses

ANTH 102 Culture, Diversity, Inequality (Introduction to Cultural Anthropology)

ANTH 210 Otherworldly Selves: Science Fiction and Anthropology

ANTH 211 Investigating Contemporary Cultures (Ethnographic Methods)

ANTH 222 Medical Anthropology

ANTH 323 Language and Medicine

Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship (alternate), 2019

National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant, Cultural Anthropology and Science, Technology & Society programs, 2017-2018

Fulbright U.S. Student Scholarship (Research Grant: South Africa), Institute for International Education, 2016-2017

Archambault Award for Teaching Excellence, School for Professional Studies, Brown University, 2016

Einstein Fellowship (finalist), Einstein Forum/Daimler Benz Foundation, 2010

Leiden University Excellence Scholarship, 2009-2010

Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship, 2007