Strong
Strong is Thomas Strong, lecturer in the department of anthropology at the National University of Ireland Maynooth. He has previously held posts at the University of Helsinki, the University of California, San Francisco, the University of Wisconsin, and (oddly enough) the American Academy of Ophthalmology. His publications include essays on the symbolism of blood and body in the U.S. and elsewhere, new cross-disciplinary work on kinship, and ideas of culture loss and bodily detumescence amongst the Dano-speakers of Papua New Guinea’s (PNG) eastern highlands province. His work in PNG concerns transformations in sociality, gender relations, and personhood following the mid-twentieth-century repudiation of the customary men’s cult in the upper Asaro valley. More recent work pertains to how social futures for people with HIV are being imagined and instituted.
