Clara Han is Professor of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University. Her research investigates the intersections of neighborhood, medical and legal institutions, and intimate life in contexts marked by both the slow, corrosive violence of economic precarity and the catastrophic violence of torture, extrajudicial killing and war. Two thematic clusters that cross-cut anthropology undergird this research: first, the experience of illness in contexts marked by economic deprivation; and second, the articulation of violence, affliction, and kinship. For over twenty years, Professor Han has conducted research in low-income neighborhoods in Santiago, Chile. More recently, she has conducted research in Korea, focusing particularly on the Korean War and the partitioning of the two Koreas. During the Covid-19 pandemic, she lead a multi-country study on the household decision-making, movement restrictions, disease and everyday life. Funded by a NSF RAPID, it has led to a research network across the Southern Cone in Latin America on Covid-19. She is the author of Life in Debt: Time of Care and Violence in Neoliberal Chile (2012; 2022, Spanish translation) and Seeing Like a Child: Inheriting the Korean War (2021), and the co-editor of Living and Dying in the Contemporary World: A Compendium (2015). Her forthcoming book Echoes of a Death (Fordham University Press, under contract) follows the reverberations of the death of a young man at the hands of police in a low-income neighborhood in Santiago, Chile. It explores the textures of living with loss and affliction in kinship and in a neighborhood milieu marked by state violence. See publications on academia.edu