culture and health

Dr. Christine Davis

September 28, 2018 by Christine Davis
department: Communication Studies

Christine DavisProfessor
Department of Communication Studies

My research interests are in the intersection of family, culture, and health communication. [read more=’Read more’ less=’Read less’] I publish regularly on topics such as children’s health, end-of-life communication, disability, and qualitative research methods. I have published over 50 academic books, journal articles, book chapters, and other publications and has received numerous research awards. I specifically study people with illnesses and conditions that are incurable as they face revisions in their personal identity and narrative and negotiate the liminal spaces between ‘well’ and ‘unwell,’ alive and dead, and power and marginalization. I am the author of Death: The Beginning of a Relationship (2010); Conversations about Qualitative Communication Research: Behind the Scenes with Leading Scholars (2014); Communicating Hope: An Ethnography of a Children’s Mental Health Care Team (2014); and Focus Groups: Applying Communication Theory through Design, Facilitation, and Analysis; and is lead author of Talking through Death: Communicating about Death in Interpersonal, Mediated, and Cultural Contexts (2018) and Straight Talk about Communication Research Methods (3rd edition, 2017)..
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Dr. Letha Victor

September 28, 2018 by Letha Victor
department: Religious Studies

Letha VictorAssistant Professor
Department of Religious Studies

My work lies at the intersections of religion and healing, both broadly construed. [read more=’Read more’ less=’Read less’] Trained as a socio-cultural anthropologist, my research projects since 2008 have centred on the Acholi sub-region of northern Uganda, where I have conducted extensive ethnographic fieldwork on postcolonial violence, haunting, human-spirit relations, and ethics. I am interested in a wide range of issues that include subjectivity, ethics, temporality, social change, religiosity, trauma and the cross-linguistic and cross-cultural legibility of suffering, witchcraft and conspiracy, and debates about morality, ritual expertise, and authenticity in Acholi society and beyond. Currently, I am working on a book manuscript about ghostly vengeance and spiritual pollution in contemporary post-war Acholi.[/read]

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