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JOÃO BIEHL

Department of Anthropology
Princeton University
128 Aaron Burr Hall
Princeton, NJ 08544-1011
Office: [phone]; Fax: [phone]
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.joaobiehl.net

EDUCATION

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, 1999.

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Religion, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, 1996.

Masters of Arts (MA) in Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, 1994.

Masters of Arts (MA) in Philosophy, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Brazil, 1991.

Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Journalism, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, 1985.

Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Theology, Escola Superior de Teologia da IECLB, Brazil, 1985.

APPOINTMENTS AT PRINCETON UNIVERSITY

Susan Dod Brown Professor of Anthropology and Woodrow Wilson School Faculty
Associate, 2010 to the present.

Professor of Anthropology, 2008-2010.
Associate Professor of Anthropology, 2006-2008.
Assistant Professor of Anthropology, 2001-2006.

Co-Director, Program in Global Health and Health Policy, 2009 to the present.

Faculty Associate:
Center for Health and Wellbeing
Center for the Study of Religion
Department of Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Cultures
Office of Population Research
Princeton Institute of International and Regional Studies
Princeton Environmental Institute
Program in Latin American Studies
Program in Law and Public Affairs
University Center for Human Values
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OTHER APPOINTMENTS

Academic Advisory Panel and Senior Member, Center for Theological Inquiry, Princeton, 2009
to the present.

Member, Center for Theological Inquiry, Princeton, 2008-2009.

Member, School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, 2005-2006.

Visiting Professor, École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), Paris, May 2004.

Member, School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study, 2002-2003.

National Institute of Mental Health Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University (Departments of
Anthropology and Social Medicine and clinical training at the Palliative Care Service of the
Massachusetts General Hospital), 1998-2000.

Visiting Professor, Instituto de Saúde Coletiva, Universidade Federal da Bahia, 1996-1997.

Teaching Assistant, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, 1995,
1997.

Adjunct Professor, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, 1992, 1994.

RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS

Socio-cultural and Medical Anthropology; Social Studies of Science and Technology; Global
Health; Culture and Mental Illness; HIV/AIDS; Pharmaceuticals; Health and Human Rights;
Religion and Society; Subjectivity; Ethnographic Methods; Contemporary Social Theory;
Latin American Societies; Brazil.

AWARDS AND HONORS

John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow Award, 2008-2009.

President’s Distinguished Lecturer: “When People Come First: Social Innovation in Global
Health,” Princeton University, March 2009.

Old Dominion Faculty Fellow, Princeton University Council of the Humanities, 2007-2008,
2009-2010.

2008 Rudolph Virchow Rudolph Professional Article Award of the Society for Medical
Anthropology for “Pharmaceuticalization: AIDS Treatment and Global Health Politics”
(published in Anthropological Quarterly).

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Awards for the book Will to Live: AIDS Therapies and the Politics of Survival (Princeton
University Press 2007):

2008 Wellcome Medal for Anthropology as Applied to Medical Problems, Wellcome
Trust and Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland.

2008 Diana Forsythe Prize of the Committee on Science, Technology and Computing
and the Society for the Anthropology of Work, American Anthropological
Association.

Awards for the book Vita: Life in a Zone of Social Abandonment (University of California Press
2005):

2007 Margaret Mead Award, Society for Applied Anthropology and American
Anthropological Association.

2006 Anthony Leeds Prize of the Society for Urban, National, and
Transnational/Global Anthropology, American Anthropological Association.

2006 Stirling Prize of the Society for Psychological Anthropology, American
Anthropological Association.

2006 Benjamin L. Hooks Outstanding Book Award, Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for
Social Change.

2005 Eileen Basker Memorial Prize, Society for Medical Anthropology, American
Anthropological Association.

2005 Honorable Mention, Victor Turner Prize for Ethnographic Writing, Society for
Humanistic Anthropology, American Anthropological Association.

President’s Award for Distinguished Teaching, Princeton University, 2005.

2005 Rudolph Virchow Professional Article Award of the Society for Medical Anthropology
for “The Activist State: Global Pharmaceuticals, AIDS, and Citizenship in Brazil” (published
in Social Text).

Harold Willis Dodds Presidential University Preceptorship, Princeton University, 2004-2006.

Paulo Brossard Prize, Best Journalism Student, Secretariat of Education of the State of Rio
Grande do Sul, Brazil, 1985.

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FUNDED RESEARCH

Principal Investigator, “Demanding the Right to Health in Courts: AIDS Treatment Access,
Drug Markets, and Citizenship in Brazil Today,” research funded by the Ford Foundation,
2009-2011.

Principal Investigator, “Social Determinants of Health and the Future of Global AIDS
Treatment,” research funded by Princeton University’s Grand Challenges Initiative on Global
Health and Infectious Disease, 2008-2012.

Co-Principal Investigator, “Pharmaceutical Aging,” research funded by Princeton University
and the National Institutes of Health, 2011-2012.

Principal Investigator, “The Development of the Brazilian AIDS Model,” research grant from
the Program on Global Security and Sustainability of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur
Foundation, 2003-2004.

Principal Investigator, “Pharmaceutical Governance,” Richard Carley Hunt Postdoctoral
Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation, 2003-2005.

Princeton University Committee on Research in the Humanities and the Social Sciences,
research grants for the book project Vita, 2001, 2002, 2005.

Princeton University Committee on Research in the Humanities and the Social Sciences,
research grants for the book Project Will to Live, 2005, 2006.

Program in Latin American Studies, Princeton University, summer research grants for the
book projects Vita and The Valley of Lamentation, 2001-2007.

The Crichton Fund, Department of Social Medicine, Harvard University, research grant for
the project “Mental Illness in a Brazilian Zone of Social Abandonment,”1999.

PhD dissertation research, “The Brazilian Control of HIV/AIDS,” funded by the Brazilian
Council of Technological and Scientific Development (CNPq), 1996-1997.

World Council of Churches and Instituto de Estudos da Religião (ISER), research grant for
the project “A Trip through AIDS in Brazil,” 1992-1995.

ACADEMIC FELLOWSHIPS AND SCHOLARSHIPS

Membership Fellowship, Center for Theological Inquiry, 2008-2009.

Membership Fellowship, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Germany, 2006-2007 (declined).

Membership Fellowship, School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, 2005-
2006.
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Harold Willis Dodds Presidential University Preceptorship, Princeton University, 2004-2006.

Membership Fellowship, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Germany, 2003-2004 (declined).

Membership Fellowship, School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study, 2002-2003.
Postdoctoral Fellowship, National Institute of Mental Health, Harvard University, 1998-2000.

Chancellor’s Dissertation Writing Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley, 1997-1998.
Fellowship for Doctoral Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, Brazilian Council
of Technological and Scientific Development (CNPq), 1993-1997.

Newhall Graduate Fellowship, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, 1992-1993.

Fellowship for Doctoral Studies at the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, Lutheran
World Federation, 1991-1995.

PUBLICATIONS

Books in English

Will to Live: AIDS Therapies and the Politics of Survival. Princeton: Princeton University
Press, 2007. (Photographs by Torben Eskerod).
Paperback edition 2009.

Subjectivity: Ethnographic Investigations (João Biehl, Byron Good, Arthur Kleinman).
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007.

Contributors: Amèlie O. Rorty, Arthur Kleinman and Erin Fitz-Henry, Veena Das and
Ranendra Das, Paul Rabinow, Stephen Greenblatt, Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Allan
Young, Byron Good, Ellen Corin, Anne Lovell, Evelyn Fox Keller, Mary-Jo
DelVecchio Good, Eric Krakauer, João Biehl, Michael M. J. Fischer.

Vita: Life in a Zone of Social Abandonment. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005.
(Photographs by Torben Eskerod).

Fourth reprinting 2010.

Second Edition, With a New Afterword (forthcoming 2012).

Portuguese translation, Editora da Universidade de São Paulo (forthcoming 2012).

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Book Manuscripts

When People Come First: Evidence, Actuality and Theory in Global Health .João Biehl and
Adriana Petryna (eds.). Under review at Princeton University Press.

Contributors: Vincanne Adams, Joseph Amon, João Biehl, Marcos Cueto, Stefan
Ecks, Didier Fassin, Michael M.J. Fischer, Clara Han, Julie Livingstone, Amy Moran-
Thomas, Adriana Petryna, James Pfeiffer, Ian Whitmarsh, Susan Reynolds Whyte,
Michael Whyte.

Entre a Clínica e o Tribunal: Estudos sobre a Judicialização da Saúde no Brasil [Between
the Clinic and the Court: Studies of the Judicialization of Health in Brazil]. Ingo W. Sarlet,
João Biehl, Adriana Petryna (eds.), (in preparation).

The Valley of Lamentation: The Mucker War in 19th Century Brazil (in preparation)

Books in Portuguese

Entre as Montanhas. (João Biehl, Sandro Blume, Rejane Ruppenthal). (“Between the
Mountains”). Porto Alegre: Literalis, 2004.

Antropologia da Razão: Ensaios de Paul Rabinow. (“The Anthropology of Reason: Essays by
Paul Rabinow”). Editor and Translator, with an Introduction. Rio de Janeiro: Relume Dumará,
1999. (Second reprinting 2002).

Clandestino: No Cotidiano e na Teologia. (“Clandestine: Theology and Ordinary Life ”).
Petrópolis/São Leopoldo: Vozes/Sinodal, 1990.

De Igual pra Igual: Um Diálogo Crítico entre a Teologia da Libertação e as Teologias Negra,
Feminista e Pacifista. (“From Equal to Equal: A Critical Dialogue between Latin American
Liberation Theology and Black, Feminist and Pacifist Theologies”). Petrópolis/São Leopoldo:
Vozes/Sinodal, 1987.

Tudo a Ver: Uma Viagem Sem Roteiros pela América do Sul. (“All to See: A Journey through
South America”). São Leopoldo: Sinodal, 1987.

Articles in Refereed Journals

“Anthropology in the Field of Global Health.” Horizontes Antropológicos (special issue:
“Science, Ethics and Power” edited by Claudia Fonseca), 2011, 17(35):257-296.

“Homo Economicus & Life Markets.” Medical Anthropology Quarterly (special issue: “After
Progress” edited by Sharon Kauffman and S.Lochlann Jain), 2011, 25: 278–284.

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“Deleuze and the Anthropology of Becoming” (with Peter Locke). Current Anthropology,
2010, 51(3):317-351 (with comments and a reply).

“Judicialisation and the Right to Health in Brazil” (Biehl J, Petryna A, Gertner A, Amon JJ,
Picon PD). The Lancet, 2009, 373: 2182-84.

“Accès du traitement du sida, marches des medicaments et citoyenneté dans le Brésil
d’aujourd’hui.” (“AIDS Treatment Access, Drug Markets, and Citizenship in Brazil Today”).
Sciences Sociales et Santé, 2009, 27(3): 13-46.

“Symptom: Subjectivities, Social Ills, Technologies” (with Amy Moran-Thomas). Annual
Review of Anthropology, 2009, 38: 267-88.

“Antropologia do Devir: Psicofármacos — Abandono Social — Desejo” (“Anthropology of
Becoming: Psychopharmaceuticals — Social Abandonment — Desire”). Revista de
Antropologia, 2008, 51(2):413-449.

“Drugs for All: The Future of Global AIDS Treatment.” Medical Anthropology, 2008, 27(2)1-7.

“Lifelong AIDS: Markets, Politics, Survival in Brazil.” LASA Forum, 2008, 39(2):14-17.
“Desire and the Social Subject” (A Commentary). Current Anthropology, 2008, 49(2):235-36.

“Pharmaceuticalization: AIDS Treatment and Global Health Politics.” Anthropological
Quarterly, 2007, 80(4):1083-1126.

“Ex-Human: Reflections on Vita: Life in a Zone of Social Abandonment.” City & Society,
2007, 19(1):81-85.

“Will To Live: AIDS Drugs and Local Economies of Salvation” (a photographic essay with
Torben Eskerod). Public Culture, 2006, 18(3):457-472.

“Life of the Mind: The Interface of Psychopharmaceuticals, Domestic Economies, and Social
Abandonment.” American Ethnologist, 2004, 31 (4): 475-496.

“The Activist State: Global Pharmaceuticals, AIDS, and Citizenship in Brazil.” Social Text,
2004, 22(3):105-132.

“Práticas Médicas de Aceitação da Morte na UTI de um Hospital Geral do Nordeste do
Brasil” (with Esdras Cabus Moreira). (“Medical Practices and the Acceptance of Death in the
Intensive Care Unit of a General Hospital in Northeastern Brazil”). Bioética [a journal of the
Brazilian Medical Association], 2004, 12(1): 19-30.

“Technology and Affect: HIV/AIDS Testing in Brazil” (with Denise Coutinho and Ana Luzia
Outeiro). Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, 2001, 25(1): 87-129.

“Vita: Life in a Zone of Social Abandonment.” Social Text, 2001, 19(3): 131-149.

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“Jammerthal, the Valley of Lamentation: Kultur, War Trauma and Subjectivity in 19th Century
Brazil.” Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, 1999, 8(2): 171-198.

Book Chapters

“Patient Value.” In Cash on the Table edited by Edward F. Fischer and Peter Benson. Santa
Fe, NM: SAR Press, 2012.

“CATKINE … Asylum, Laboratory, Pharmacy, Pharmacist, I and the Cure: Pharmaceutical
Subjectivity in the Global South.” In Pharmaceutical Self and Imaginary:
Psychopharmacology in a Globalizing World edited by Janis Jenkins. Santa Fe, NM: SAR
Press, 2011, pp.67-96.

“When People Come First: Beyond Technical and Theoretical Quick Fixes in Global Health.”
In Global Political Ecology edited by Richard Peet, Paul Robbins, Michael Watts. London:
Routledge, 2011. pp.100-130.

“‘Medication Is Me Now’: Human Values and Political Life in the Wake of Global AIDS
Treatment.” In In the Name of Humanity: The Government of Threat and Care edited by Ilana
Feldman and Miriam Ticktin. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2010, pp.151-189.

“Human Pharmakon: Symptoms, Technologies, Subjectivities.” In A Reader in Medical
Anthropology: Theoretical Trajectories, Emergent Realities edited by Byron Good, Michael
M.J. Fischer, Sarah Willen, Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell,
2010, pp.213-231.

“The Brazilian Response to AIDS and the Pharmaceuticalization of Global Health.” In
Anthropology and Public Health: Bridging Differences in Culture and Society (second
edition) edited by Robert A. Hahn and Marcia Inhorn. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press,
2008, pp.480-511.

“The Mucker War: A History of Violence and Silence.” In Postcolonial Disorders edited by
Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good, Sandra T. Hyde, Sarah Pinto, and Byron Good. Berkeley:
University of California Press, 2008, pp.279-308.

“Introduction: Rethinking Subjectivity” (João Biehl, Byron Good, Arthur Kleinman). In
Subjectivity: Ethnographic Investigations edited by Biehl, Good, Kleinman. Berkeley:
University of California Press, 2007, pp.1-23.

“A Life: Between Psychiatric Drugs and Social Abandonment.” In Subjectivity: Ethnographic
Investigations edited by Biehl, Good, Kleinman. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007,
pp.397-421.

“Pharmaceutical Governance.” In Global Pharmaceuticals: Ethics, Markets, Practices edited
by Adriana Petryna, Andrew Lakoff, and Arthur Kleinman. Durham: Duke University Press,
2006, pp.206-239.

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“Technologies of Invisibility: The Politics of Life and Social Inequality.” In Anthropologies
of Modernity: Foucault, Governmentality, and Life Politics, edited by Jonathan Xavier Inda.
London: Blackwell, 2005, pp. 248-271.

“Ciência, Tecnologia e Saúde Mental” (“Science, Technology and Mental Health”). In
Tecnologias do Corpo: Uma Anthropologia das Medicinas no Brasil (“Technologies of the
Body: An Anthropology of Medical Practices in Brazil”), edited by Annette Leibing. Rio de
Janeiro: Nau Editora, 2003, pp.19-35.

“O Fim do Corpo: Comércio de Órgãos para Transplantes Cirúrgicos” (with Nancy Scheper-
Hughes). (“The End of the Body: The Commerce of Organs for Surgical Transplantation”). In
Políticas do Corpo e o Curso da Vida, edited by Guita Debert and Donna Goldstein. São
Paulo: Sumaré, 2000, pp.49-81.

“A Guerra dos Imigrantes: O Espírito Alemão e o Estranho Mucker no Sul do Brasil.” (“The
War of the Immigrants: The German Spirit and the Uncanny Mucker in Southern Brazil”). In
Colonização e Psicanálise, edited by Edson L.A. de Sousa. Porto Alegre: Artes e Ofícios, 1999,
pp.148-168.

“Região Nordeste” (with Dourado MIC, Barreto ML, Almeida-Filho N, Cunha S). (“HIV/AIDS
in Brazil’s Northeastern Region”). In Situação e Tendências da Epidemia de HIV/AIDS no
Brasil. Brasília: Coordenação de DST/AIDS, 1997, pp. 123-144.

“Uma Tribo Que Pensa e Negocia em Alemão.” (“A Tribe That Thinks and Trades in German”).
In Nós, os Teuto-Gaúchos, edited by René Gertz and Luiz A. Fischer. Porto Alegre: Editora da
UFRGS, 1996, pp. 227-236.

Book Reviews and Other Publications

“Having an Idea in Anthropology Today.” Kroeber Anthropological Society Papers, 2011,
No. 100. pp.20-24.

“Political Theology and War in Postcolonial Brazil.” The Commons, Center for Theological
Inquiry, 2010.

“Lifelong AIDS: Markets, Politics, Survival in Brazil.” LASA Forum, 2008, 39(2).

“Desire and the Social Subject” (A Commentary). Current Anthropology, 2008, 49(2):235-36.

“A Vida Cotidiana das Palavras: A História de Catarina.” (“The Ordinary Life of Words:
Catarina’s Story”). Correio da APPOA 2005, 140: 14-29.

“Saints: Their Immanence and Poetics” (review essay of Robert A. Orsi’s book “Between
Heaven and Earth: The Religious Worlds People Make and the Scholars Who Study Them”
(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005). In Anthropological Quarterly, 2005, 78(4):
1005-1007.
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Book Review: Paul E. Brodwin (ed.). “Biotechnology and Culture: Bodies, Anxieties and
Ethics.” Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2000. In American
Ethnologist, 2003, 30 (4):621-622.

“Biotechnology and the New Politics of Life and Death in Brazil: The AIDS Model.” Princeton
Journal of Bioethics, 2002, 5:59-74.

“Social Death.” Book Review: Tobias Hecht. “At Home in the Street.” Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1998. In Anthropological Quarterly, 2001, 74(3):147-148.

“Cultura e Poder no Tempo dos Mucker.” (“Culture and Power In the Time of the Mucker”).
Jahrbuch 2002 Institut Martius-Staden, 49:162-181.

“Tecnociência e Subjectividade.” (“Technoscience and Subjectivity). Revista da Associação
Psicanalítica de Porto Alegre, 2001, 20:124-132.

“Photography in the Field of the Unconscious.” Torben Eskerod. Ansigter [Faces]. Copenhagen:
Rhodos, 1997. (Introduction to Eskerod’s photographic book, English and Danish).

“O Estádio Clínico: A Constituição de uma Criança Inválida.” (with Adriana Petryna). Revista
da Associação Psicanalítica de Porto Alegre, 1997, 7(13):83-101.

“Apontamentos para uma Arqueologia dos Mucker.” (“Notes for an Archeology of the
Mucker”). Revista da Associação Psicanalítica de Porto Alegre, 1994, 4(10): 74-78.

“Recozinhando-se Deslocadamente: Anotações sobre Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, Rigoberta
Menchu e Modernidade.” (“Displacement and Self-fashioning: Notes on the Modernity of Sor
Juana Ines de la Cruz and Rigoberta Menchu”). Estudos Teológicos, 1992, 32 (2).

“E a natureza se tornará artificial.” (“Nature Will Be Artificial”—Interview with Paul Rabinow).
Ciência e Meio Ambiente, 1991, 2 (3).

“Fotos Não Muito Nítidas.” (“Images Out of Focus”). Comunicações do ISER, 1990, 9(36): 75-
86 (special issue: Transformations in Eastern Europe).

Documentary Film Screenplay

Antártida, o Último Continente (“Antarctica, the Last Continent”) directed by Monica
Schmiedt and Alberto Salvá, Brazil, 1997. Screenplay by Monica Schmiedt, João Biehl, and
Alberto Salvá.

Visual Anthropology Exhibitions (with photographer Torben Eskerod)

Bodies of Rights & Medicines
Bernstein Gallery, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University, 2012.

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