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Project Collaborator

Theodore Michaels

MD-PhD Student in Medical Anthropology UCSF and UC Berkeley

Biography

Theo is an MD-PhD student in Medical Anthropology at UCSF and UC Berkeley. He is interested in questions of surveillance capitalism, labor, infrastructure, migration, mental health, and trust. He has performed research on mourning on Reddit.com, conspiracy theorists in England, and mental health infrastructure in California. For his PhD, Theo plans to drive a long-haul truck and research the public health and surveillance of truck drivers.

Project

The Case of the Human: Co-Producing Plural Knowledge on the Body, the Social, and the Subject

2024 – 2025