People
Elena Lesley
Assistant Professor
contact
Office: SOC 138
Email: eslesley@usf.edu
Education
- PhD, Anthropology, Emory University
- MS, Global Affairs, Rutgers University
- BA, Political Science, Brown University
Teaching
Religion, Health, and Healing; Cross-Cultural Issues in Mental Health; Introduction to Cultural Anthropology; Introduction to Anthropology (four-field); Qualitative Data Analysis for Public Health; Health Policy, Law and Advocacy; Public Health Research Methods; Public Health Program Planning
Research
Medical and psychological anthropology, global mental health; applied anthropology; transitional justice; immigrant/refugee health; humanitarianism; religion (Buddhism and Islam) Southeast Asia
Recent Publications
Select Articles & Chapters
Lesley, Elena. 2023. 鈥�.鈥� Medicine Anthropology Theory 10(1): 1-12.
Lesley, Elena. 2023. 鈥�.鈥� Memory Studies 16(3): 593-610.
Lesley, Elena [Co-authored with Hoy Vathana]. 2022. 鈥�
.鈥� In Challenging Conceptions: Children Born of Wartime Rape and Sexual Exploitation, Eds. Kimberly Theidon and Dyan Mazurana. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Lesley, Elena. 2021. 鈥�.鈥� Ethos: Journal for the Society of Psychological Anthropology 48(3): 379-400.
Lesley, Elena. 2021. 鈥�
.鈥� Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology 86(3): 570-591.
Reviews
Lesley, Elena. 2023. 鈥�.鈥� Medical Anthropology Quarterly.
Public-facing pieces
Lesley, Elena. 2022. 鈥�.鈥� Washington, DC: Think Global Health