Coral O'Brian

• Environmental Anthropology (Climate Change Focus)
• Multi-species Anthropology
• Social Landscapes and Agricultural Ethnoecologies
• Embodiment
• Regional: India and South Africa

11/2019 Research Associate, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Hamburg

01/2019 Master of Arts in Medical Anthropology, Health and Society of South Asia, Thesis: “The Practice of Be(e)ing with Bees: Making Care in the Anthropocene” (ethnography of farmers and beekeepers in Gujarat, India)

03/2018-05/2018 Field work in Gujarat, India as part of the Master’s thesis funded by DAAD

 12/2017- 04/2019 Student Research Assistant for DIALOGIK, a non-profit research institute focusing on navigating complex processes of communication in health and the environment

 10/2016-01/2019 MA of Medical Anthropology, Health and Society of South Asia, University of Heidelberg

 05/2015 Bachelor of Arts in International Studies (major) with focus on Global Health and Sustainability, and Public Health (minor)

 01/2014-05/2014 Semester abroad at the Danish Institute for Study Abroad, Copenhagen, Denmark (Public Health and Sociology)

 09/2013-12/2014 Semester abroad at Manipal University, Karnataka, India (Public Health and Anthropology)

 09/2011- 05/2015 BA International Studies at American University, Washington, D.C.

 1992 born in Vermont, USA