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Katie Kilroy-Marac is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Toronto. She earned her PhD from Columbia University. Her research examines the social history of psychiatric thought and how local understandings of illness and suffering intersect with Western psychiatric models. Her notable book, "Impossible Inheritance: Postcolonial Psychiatry and the Work of Memory in a West African Clinic," published by the University of California Press in 2019, is based on fieldwork conducted at the Fann Psychiatric Clinic in Dakar, Senegal. Kilroy-Marac's current ethnographic research focuses on the emergence of hoarding as a mental disorder, addressing its implications as a public health hazard and media spectacle in North America. Additionally, she investigates how individuals engage with ethical consumption through her critical examination of the Tiny House Movement. Her teaching interests include culture and society in Africa, anthropology and psychology, as well as the interplay between culture, mental illness, and psychiatry.
Department of Sociology