ABOUT
Caroline Mary Parker is a Lecturer of Anthropology at University College London, Director UCL East's Ethnographic Insights Lab, and the Director of Learning in Prison. She completed her Ph.D. at Columbia University. Her work revolves around three areas: carcerality, confinement, and citizenship in Latin America; the racial politics of the US opioid epidemic; and critical public health. Her book, Carceral Citizens: Labor and Confinement in Puerto Rico, will be published by the University of Chicago Press in 2024. Parker’s work has been published in American Ethnologist, The New England Journal of Medicine, Medical Anthropology Quarterly, Science Technology and Human Values, BioSocieties, The American Journal of Public Health, and Archives of Sexual Behavior (among others). Her research has been funded by the British Academy, the Leverhulme Trust, the Open Society Foundation, the Foundation for Opioid Research Efforts, the US National Science Foundation, the US National Institutes of Health, the US National Institute of Drug Abuse, the Social Science Research Council, as well as the Biosocial Society and the Institute of Latin American Studies at Columbia University.
Dr Parker also edits the Directions features at the Political and Legal Anthropological Review (PoLAR).
