Medical anthropologist Alex Nading will join the Department of faculty as an Associate Professor in July 2020. Nading is currently a Senior Fellow at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University. His work examines the interface of biomedicine, public health, and environmental change in Latin America. Nading's current research examines how environmental justice activists are addressing an epidemic of chronic kidney disease on Nicaraguan sugarcane plantations. Bridging classic work on Latin American plantations with contemporary disability theory, Nading considers the future of public health in an era of climate change.
Nading's first book, Mosquito Trails: Ecology, Health, and the Politics of Entanglement (University of California Press, 2014) is an ethnography of community-based dengue fever control in urban Nicaragua. He has published articles and chapters on topics including genetically modified mosquitoes, dengue vaccines, the human microbiome, food safety, and the role of toxic chemicals in global health interventions. He is the incoming Editor of Medical Quarterly.
Nading is a graduate of University of Wisconsin-Madison (Ph.D in ); University of Sussex (M.A. with Distinction in ); and University of Virginia (B.A. in and English). In Fall 2020, Nading will teach a Freshman Writing Seminar called Bug Lives. In Spring 2021, he will teach Ethnographies of Development (ANTHR 4437/7437) and a new course, of Global Health (ANTHR 3413/6413).
The Department of is delighted to welcome Professor Nading to the Department.
