Contact
Email:
bp356@cam.ac.uk
Branwyn is a medical anthropologist working on health, healing, and the body in Senegal. She has recently completed her book manuscript Lines of Sight: Development Decolonisation and the Image World of Senegalese Hygiene, an account of urban environmental politics and hygienic pedagogies grounded in historical analysis, ethnographic engagement, and visual theory. Her current research focuses on the emergence of chronic diseases in Dakar. Branwyn draws upon ethnographic research in urban Senegalese households to understand how diseases associated with the overconsumption of fat, salt, and sugar emerge in a Sahelian city strongly associated with hunger, scarcity, and rampant food insecurity.
Before coming to the RCC, Branwyn was a postdoctoral fellow at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the University of Cambridge.
RCC Research Project: Eating Rich in Dakar
Lunchtime Colloquium Video - Consumption in Crisis: The Work of Nourishment in Dakar
Selected Publications:
- “Ethnohistory and the Dead: Cultures of Colonial Epidemiology.” Medical Anthropology (April 2018).
- “Made in Denmark: Scientific Mobilities and the Place of Pedagogy in Global Health.” Global Public Health 13, no. 3 (2018): 276–87.
- “Pasteurian Tropical Medicine and Colonial Scientific Vision.” Subjectivity 10, no. 2 (2017): 190–203.
- “Building Out the Rat: Animal Intimacies and Prophylactic Settlement In 1920s South Africa.” Engagement (blog). Anthropology and Environment Society, 7 February 2017.
- with Peter Mangesho. “Labour Politics and Africanisation at a Tanzanian Scientific Research Institute, 1949–1966.” Africa 86, no. 1 (2016): 142–61.