
William Lucas
William Lucas is Assistant Professor of Medical Anthropology at California State University, Dominguez Hills. His work crosscuts medical anthropology, focusing on food and nutrition, disability anthropology, and biocultural approaches to rehabilitation broadly conceived. His current project is mixed methods and multimodal where he is conducting archival research on assistive technologies vis-à-vis paralysis alongside oral history interviews with paralysis patients with diverse injury time spans. This research has valuable implications for the social model of disability as well as concepts such as intersectionality, necropolitics, and inclusivity.