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Past Visitor

João Biehl

Affiliation

Social Science

Field of Study

Anthropology
From
João Biehl is interested in the ethnography of global health interventions, and his current research explores the role of the Brazilian judiciary in the administration of public health. He also is writing the history of a religious war—the Mucker war—that took place among German immigrants in nineteenth-century Brazil.

Dates at IAS

Visitor
School of Social Science
Member
School of Historical Studies
Member
School of Social Science

Degrees

U. of California, Berkeley
Ph.D.
1999