Campus
- Scarborough (UTSC)
Fields of Study
- Culture & History
- Health
- Social & Political Geography
Areas of Interest
HIV and AIDS, Uganda, post-conflict development, stigma, Acholi, informal savings groups
Biography
Sarah O’Sullivan received her PhD in Anthropology at the University of Toronto in 2023, where she concurrently completed a collaborative specialization in Global Health. Her research is broadly concerned with understanding how global health priorities and governance mechanisms come to shape the lives of people living in post-conflict and postcolonial contexts. Her first project, largely archival and ethnographic, examines how a history of HIV-exceptionalism in the Acholi region of northern Uganda has influenced current politics of post-conflict ethical living for people living with HIV. She shows how the language and science of “stigma” is used by the Ugandan state and global heath governing systems to legitimize individualistic interventions that place the responsibility for reducing HIV on the shoulders of people living with HIV themselves in a highly unequal and tumultuous environment.
In 2024, Sarah will move to North Vancouver, joining the Department of Anthropology at Capilano University.
Supervisor
Mark Hunter