#  Claire Edington 

 

 



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Claire Edington received a Ph.D. in the History and Ethics of Public Health from Columbia University in 2013. Her dissertation, a social history of psychiatry and mental illness in French Indochina, examines how ideas about what it meant to be abnormal, as well as normal enough to return to social life, were debated among psychiatrists, colonial authorities, and the public throughout the early decades of the twentieth century. Her research has been supported by the National Institutes of Health, Columbia's Weatherhead East Asian Institute, and the Mellon Foundation. While at Columbia, she also pursued interests in contemporary policy-making around HIV and drug use in Southeast Asia, and helped train public health researchers in Vietnam on the use of social science theory and methods. Her work has appeared in Comparative Studies in Society and History, Journal of Global Public Health, and Journal of Health Policy, Politics and Law. In the fall of 2014, she will be joining the faculty of the History Department at University of Massachusetts-Boston as an Assistant Professor.

 

 

 





 

 

- ## Discipline
    
     [History](/disciplines/history)
- ## Fellowship
    
     [Postdoctoral](/fellowship/postdoctoral)
- ## Fellowship Year
    
     [2013 - 2014](/fellowship-year/2013-2014)
- ## Role
    
     [Fellows](/role/fellow)