Jenna Grant

Background:

I am a third year sociocultural student with focus in science studies, visual, and medical anthropology. My recent work has been based in Cambodia, where I lived from 2003-4.
I received my MA in 2006. My master’s project was an analysis of a controversial AIDS clinical trial and was based on research in Cambodia and California. I examined the cultural prominence of biomedicine in relation to national and ethical discourses. I will continue to research international biomedical efforts in Cambodia for my doctoral project. In 2005 I completed an experimental ethnographic film “Sakamapeap” [Action] which is set in Cambodia. This film was awarded the Rouch Prize by the Society for Visual Anthropology at the 2005 AAAs, and Second Place in the “Iowa” category at the 2006 Iowa City International Documentary Film Festival. Before starting graduate school I lived in the San Francisco Bay Area where I worked on an HIV/AIDS research project at University of California San Francisco, and at hepatitis clinics at the Berkeley Free Clinic and NEED, the Berkeley needle exchange.

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