The Team at Medical Anthropology Quarterly would like to welcome our new digital and book reviews editors: Jean Hunleth and Celeste Pang. Jean and Celeste are taking on the mantle from Jessica Robbins and Hanna Garth both of whom managed the digital and book reviews editorship, respectively. Many thanks to Jessica and Hanna for their support and wonderful stewardship of Critical Care and MAQ Book Reviews.
Jean Hunleth PHD, MPH is a medical anthropologist and Associate Professor at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. She started her career as a Peace Corps Volunteer and then volunteer supervisor in Zambia. This foundational experience led her back to anthropology—her undergraduate major at Vanderbilt University—with the goal of carrying out research that leads to meaningful change. In 2011, she received her PhD in cultural anthropology and MPH from Northwestern University, after which she took a position in the Division of Public Health Sciences at Washington University. Her research focuses on the experience of caregiving and treatment seeking for infectious and chronic diseases in Zambia and the Midwestern United States. She has received multiple federal and foundation grants focused on child and family health and caregiving, integrating ethnography, arts-based methods, and critical childhood studies into medical and health research. She is the author of the award-winning book Children as Caregivers: The Global Fight against Tuberculosis and HIV in Zambia (Rutgers University Press, 2017). She writes in multiple genres and publishes widely across anthropology, public health, and medical journals and news outlets. Alongside her research, she also focuses on making anthropological knowledge visible to multiple publics and supporting anthropologists to show up in medical and public health schools in ways that accentuate the full range of their expertise.
Celeste Pang is an Assistant Professor in Women’s and Gender Studies, Department of Humanities, at Mount Royal University. Trained as a sociocultural and medical anthropologist, Dr. Pang’s research engages closely with critical disability studies, critical gerontology, and queer and trans studies to examine social issues related to aging, disability, and care access and equity. Many of her projects concern 2SLGBTQIA+ communities. Before joining Mount Royal University Dr. Pang completed a PhD and Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Toronto, and led 2SLGBTQIA+ housing, health, and aging research at the national organization Egale Canada.