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Clara Han is Professor in the Department of Anthropology. She received a PhD in Social Anthropology from Harvard University and an MD from Harvard Medical School in 2007. She received a BA in Molecular Biology and International Affairs from Princeton University in 1997.

Professor Han's investigates the intersections of neighborhood, medical and legal institutions, and intimate life in contexts marked by both the slow, corrosive violence of economic precarity and the catastrophic violence of torture, extrajudicial killing and war. Two thematic clusters that cross-cut anthropology undergird this research: first, the experience of illness in contexts marked by economic deprivation; and second, the articulation of violence, affliction, and kinsh Clara Han is Professor in the Department of Anthropology. She received a PhD in Social Anthropology from Harvard University and an MD from Harvard Medical School in 2007. She received a BA in Molecular Biology and International Affairs from Princeton University in 1997.

Professor Han's investigates the intersections of neighborhood, medical and legal institutions, and intimate life in contexts marked by both the slow, corrosive violence of economic precarity and the catastrophic violence of torture, extrajudicial killing and war. Two thematic clusters that cross-cut anthropology undergird this research: first, the experience of illness in contexts marked by economic deprivation; and second, the articulation of violence, affliction, and kinship. For over twenty years, Professor Han has conducted research in low-income neighborhoods in Santiago, Chile. More recently, she has conducted research in Korea, focusing particularly on the Korean War and the partitioning of the two Koreas.

Professor Han is the author of Life in Debt: Times of Care and Violence in Neoliberal Chile (UC Press, 2012; traducción en español, LOM Ediciones, 2022) and Seeing Like a Child: Inheriting the Korean War (Fordham University Press, 2021), awarded the 2022 Association for Feminist Anthropology Senior Book Prize and a finalist for the 2022 Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing. Based on over a decade of research in a low-income neighborhood in Chile, Life in Debt explores the slow shifts in subjectivity and small fluctuations of care and neglect in intimate relations as they are interpenetrated by economic precarity, and state programs on poverty, mental health, and human rights. Writing from inside childhood memories, Seeing Like a Child reverses the social science method of emplotting experience within existing historical narratives to instead see as a child, recasting a picture of inheritance from one based on the transmission of memory to the child's learning to inhabit a world marked by violence. For discussions of these books in forums, please see the book symposium on Life in Debt and the book forum on Seeing Like a Child. Professor Han is also the co-editor with Veena Das of the 45-chapter volume, Living and Dying in the Contemporary World: A Compendium (UC Press, 2015). ...more

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	Life in Debt: Times of Care and Violence in Neoliberal Chile 4.27 avg rating — 70 ratings — published 2012 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Seeing Like a Child: Inheriting the Korean War by Clara Han, Richard Rechtman (Foreword) 4.35 avg rating — 34 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Living and Dying in the Contemporary World: A Compendium by Veena Das (Editor), Clara Han (Editor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Echoes of a Death: Police Violence and the Singularity of a Life 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Echoes of a Death: Police Violence and the Singularity of a Life 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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