Jarrett Zigon

Jarrett Zigon received his Ph.D. in socio-cultural anthropology from the City University of New York Graduate Center in 2006, after which he held a postdoctoral research position at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology for three years. Currently he is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at the University of Amsterdam, an Associate Research Fellow with the Max Planck Institute, and a staff member of the ASSR. His research interests include morality, personhood, experience, and institutional spaces of disciplinary practice. These interests are taken up from the perspective of an anthropology strongly influenced by post-Heideggerian phenomenology. He has completed two research projects in Russia on these topics: one on the relationship between personal experience and moral conceptions, and a second on Russian Orthodox Church drug rehabilitation programs as spaces for moral training. His current research is a transnational comparison of human rights-based HIV prevention and treatment programs and the disciplinary consequences of rights-based discursive regimes on clients and staff of these programs. His articles on morality, experience, and personhood can be found in Anthropological Theory, Ethnos, and Ethos among other journals, and his book Morality: an anthropological perspective was published by Berg Publishers in 2008.

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