LAWRENCE COHEN — Curriculum Vitae 2009

415-987-8937 (cell), 415-587-8647 (home), 
cohen@berkeley.edu
 

EDUCATION
 

1983 A.B. s. c. l., Religion, Harvard. Detur, Hoopes Prizes. Phi Beta Kappa. 1992 A.M. Anthropology, Harvard University.

1992 Ph.D. Anthropology, Harvard University. Prize for Excellence in Teaching.
 

PROFESSIONAL
 

1992-1998 Assistant Professor of Anthropology, UC Berkeley [UCB]. 1998-1999 Associate Professor of Anthropology, UCB.

1999-pres Associate Professor of Anthropology & of South & SE Asian Studies, UCB. 2009 MOVE Visiting Professor and Chair, Universität Zürich, Switzerland.
 

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
 

1991 “The Wives of Ganesa.” Ganesh. Brown, ed. Albany: SUNY.

1992 “No Aging in India: The Uses of Gerontology,” Cult Med Psychiatr 16:123-61. 1994 “Old Age: Cultural & Critical Perspectives,” Ann Rv Anthrop 23:137-58.

1995 “Toward an Anthropology of Senility” Med Anthrop Quart 9(3):314-334. 1995 “The Pleasures of Castration.” Sexual Nature, Sexual Culture. Abramson & Pinkerton, eds. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Pp. 276-304. 1995 “The Epistemological Carnival.” Knowledge & the Scholarly Medical Traditions. Bates, ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

1995 “Holi in Banaras & the Mahaland of Modernity,” GLQ 2:399-424.

1998 No Aging in India: Alzheimer’s, the Bad Family, & Other Modern Things. Berkeley: University of California.

1999 “Where It Hurts: Indian Material for an Ethics of Organ Transplantation.” Daedalus 128 (4, Fall): 135-165.

2001 “The Other Kidney: Biopolitics beyond Recognition.” Body & Soc 7 (2-3). 2002 “What Mrs. Besahara Saw: Reflections on the Gay Goonda,” in Vanita, ed., Queering India. New York: Routledge.

2003 “Senility & Irony’s Age.” Social Analysis 47 (2, Summer): 122-134. 2004 “Operability, Bioavailability, & Exception.” Ong & Collier, eds., Global Assemblages. Pp. 79-90. Oxford: Blackwell.

2004 “Operability.” Das & Poole, eds., Anthropology in the Margins of the State. Pp. 165-190. Santa Fe: SAR.

2005 “The Kothi Wars: AIDS Cosmopolitanism & the Morality of Classification,” in Adams & Pigg, eds., Sex in Development. Pp. 269-303. Durham: Duke.

2006 Thinking about dementia: Culture, Loss, and the Anthropology of Senility. Annette Leibing & Lawrence Cohen, eds. Piscataway: Rutgers.

2007 “Song for Pushkin.” Daedalus (Spring): 103-115.

2008 “Politics of Care.” Med Anthrop Quart 22(4): 336-339.

2008 “Science, Politics, & Dancing Boys.” Parallax 14 (48): 35-47. 2008 “M’s Book,” in Banerjee, ed., Muslim Portraits. New Delhi: Yoda. 

2009 “Lucknow Noir.” Murray, ed., Homophobias. Durham: Duke. Under rev The Other Kidney: Bioavailability and Surgical Utopia in India.

 

NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL HONORS


Prizes for No Aging in India:

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

2003 Canada Research Chair (declined). University of Toronto.

2003 Director, Medical Anthropology (declined). University College London.

2004 Keynote Address, National Meetings, Israeli Anthropological Association.

2006 Munro Memorial Lectureship, University of Edinburgh, UK.

2009 Swiss Chair of Mobility Studies, Université de Neuchâtel.

2009 Keynote, Society for Medical Anthropology 50th Anniversary Conference.
 

RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS, PROFESSORSHIPS, AND GRANTS
 

1986-1992 MacArthur M.D.-Ph.D. Fellowship, Harvard University. 1988-1989 Fulbright-Hays Scholarship, Delhi School of Economics. 1988-1989 Fulbright IIE Scholarship (declined).

1989-1990 American Inst. of Indian Stud. Jr. Fellowship, Delhi School of Economics. 1991-1992 Mellon Fellowship, Harvard University.

1992-1993 Fulbright IIE Scholarship, Delhi School of Economics. 1993-1994 UC Berkeley Committee on Research Competitive Grant. 1995 Tanaguchi Fellowship in the History of Medicine, Japan.

1995-1996 Junior Faculty Research Fellowship, Townsend Center, UC Berkeley. 1995-1997 National Science Foundation, Doctoral Training Grant.

1996 Guest Fellowship, Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla. 1996-1997 SSRC Sexuality Research Fellowship Program Training Grant.

1997-1998 Rockefeller Fellowship in Gerontology, Center for 20th Century Studies. 1998-1999 SSRC Sexuality Research Fellowship Program Training Grant.

1999-2001 SSRC Sexuality Research Fellowship Program Training Grant. 2002-2003 SSRC Sexuality Research Fellowship Program Training Grant. 2002-2003 UC Berkeley Committee on Research Competitive Grant.

2003-2004 Weatherhead Fellowship, School of American Research, Santa Fe. 2003-2004 Arcus Fellowship, Arcus Foundation.

2004-2005 SSRC Sexuality Research Fellowship Program Training Grant. 2006 Guest Fellowship, Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla. 2003-2008 National Science Foundation, Doctoral Training Grant.

2003-pres Retention Research Grant, UC Berkeley.

2005-pres National Science Foundation, Doctoral Training Grant. 2007-pres National Science Foundation, Doctoral Training Grant.

2009-pres Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences Fellowship.