Anthony Wright is a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow and a Ph.D. candidate in the joint program in Medical Anthropology at UC Berkeley and UC San Francisco. His research interests include biomedical practice (particularly the fields of oncology and psychiatry); youth and adolescence; the family and kinship; education and learning; and houselessness and mental illness. His regional interests are the United States and Mexico. Anthony is currently conducting ethnographic research on adolescent cancer treatment in Oakland, California. He is investigating how various forms of violence constitute and impinge upon the treatment process, as well as how morally charged discourses of parenthood, youth, and adolescence structure the experience of treatment.
