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Damien Droney specializes in Medical Anthropology, Science and Technology Studies, African Studies, and Postcolonial Studies. His research focuses on understanding the historical legacies that shape health science and technology in the African continent. Droney's completed book manuscript follows graduates of a Bachelor of Science program in herbal medicine as they pursue professional careers within Ghana's vibrant medical systems. This ethnographic research, conducted in Ghanaian universities, laboratories, and clinics, argues that the efforts to professionalize traditional medicine draw upon values associated with Ghanaian independence. His manuscript traces the afterlives of these efforts to transform African societies post-colonialism, examining how issues related to class, race, and nation continue to reverberate within the vocation of science. Droney's current ethnographic research project in Ghana investigates how food becomes an object of knowledge production and intervention, aiming to identify various models of health linked to forms of nutritional science and elucidate how expert knowledge acts as conduits for moral values and social norms.
Princeton University • Princeton, NJ
Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology, focusing on medical anthropology and science and technology studies.
GRE scores are not accepted. Ph.D. is the primary degree; students are not required to hold an M.S.E. prior to admission.