Assistant Professor, Anthropology
College of Liberal Arts and Science
Email: sabramowitz@ufl.edu
Phone: 617- 599-0191
Website: http://www.sharonabramowitz.com/
Relevant Past Projects:
Abramowitz, S. (2014). Searching for Normal in the Wake of the Liberian War. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press.
Abramowitz, S. and Catherine Panter-Brick, Eds. (2015) Medical Humanitarianism: Ethnographies of Practice. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press.
Abramowitz, SA., McKune SL, Bardosh, K., Fallah, M., Monger, J., Tehoungue, K., Omidian, PA. C. (Community-Centered Responses to Ebola in Urban Liberia: The View from Below. PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0003706. Published 9 April 2015.
Abramowitz, SA, McKune SL, Fallah, M., Monger, J., Tehoungue, K., Omidian, PA. C. “The Opposite of Denial: Social Learning at the Onset of the Ebola Emergency in Liberia.” Submitted to Health Communications.
Abramowitz, S. (in progress) “Medicine, Money and Moral Community: A Study of Humanitarian Agency in Liberia’s Health Sector Transition.” Submitted to Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute.
Abramowitz, SA., McLean, K. McKune SL, Fallah, M., Monger, J., Tehoungue, K., Omidian, PA. (In progress) “General Morbidity and Health-Seeking Behaviors in a context of Ebola Mortality: Monrovia, Liberia in the West African Ebola Epidemic.”
Good, B., Delvecchio-Good, MJ.,Abramowitz, S., A Kleinman, C Panter-Brick. “Medical Humanitarianism: Research Insights into a Changing Field of Practice.” Social Science & Medicine 2014 (120) 311-316. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.09.027.
Abramowitz, S., Meredith Marten, and Catherine Panter-Brick. (2014) “Medical Humanitarianism: Anthropologists Speak Out on Policy and Practice.” Medical Anthropology Quarterly. doi: 10.1111/maq.12139.
Abramowitz, S. and Mary Moran. (2012) “International Human Rights, Gender-Based Violence, and Discourses of Abuse in Post-Conflict Liberia: A Problem of ‘Culture?’” African Studies Review 55(2) p.119-46.
Abramowitz, S. (2011) “Trauma in Liberia: The Tale of Open Mole.” Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry (Special Issue on Idioms of Distress) 34(2) p.353-79.
Abramowitz, S. and Arthur Kleinman (2008) “Humanitarian intervention and cultural translation: a review of the IASC Guidelines on Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Emergency Settings.” Intervention: International Journal of Mental Health, Psychosocial Work, and Counselling in Areas of Armed Conflict.6 (3/4) p.219-227.
Abramowitz, S. (2005) “The poor have become rich and the rich have become poor: Collective trauma on the Guinean Languette.” Social Science and Medicine. 61 pp. 1206-1218.
Current projects:
The Ebola 100 Project: Principal Investigator and Project Director
This initiative is a collaborative, multi-national, multi-lingual project involving 20 researchers and practitioners. It seeks to interview approximately 1000 people directly involved in the humanitarian response to Ebola. The goal of the project is to map a history of the West African Ebola Response and create a public archive of humanitarian experiences during the 2014-2015 Ebola outbreaks
Abramowitz, S. (in research) Behind the War on Gender Violence: Tracking the Hidden Histories of Sex, Culture and Power in Liberia’s Past and Present.