Name: Thomas Csordas
Title: Professor, Department of Anthropology
Email: tcsordas@ucsd.edu

Campus Address: Social Sciences Building (SSB) 272

Phone: (858) 822-6588


Education: Ph.D., Duke University, 1980

Field of Expertise:

Tom Csordas is an expert on psychological and medical anthropology, anthropological theory, comparative religion,cultural phenomenology and embodiment, globalization and social change, language and culture. He conducts research on the contemporary U.S. and Native North America, and directs the CAPES/FIPSE student exchange consortium on “Cultural diversity, Social Inequality, and the Pursuit of Health in Brazil and the United States.”

Region of Interest: United States

Selected Publications:

Body/Meaning/Healing (2002) Palgrave Macmillan

 

Transnational Transcendence (2009) University of California Press