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Department of Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles

Psychocultural and sociocultural anthropology, medicine in post-industrial societies, colonization, modernization, globalization, identity politics (particularly ethnic , religious, and nationalist), agency, psychical conflict, conflict and violence, media, human rights, youth cultures, drug and alcohol use/abuse

West Africa, particularly Nigeria and Niger, and the United States

University of California, Los Angeles, doctoral degree in Anthropology, 12/97

University of Southern California, Los Angeles, master's degree in Counseling Psychology, 5/86

Also attended: University of Vermont, bachelor's degree in Psychology, 5/83; University of Mississippi, 9/79-5/80, 1/81-5/81; University of Hawaii, 9/78-5/79

Humanities Institute Fellow, The Nearer in Blood, the Nearer Bloody, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, 03/25/02-05/31/02

Research Affiliate, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles, 06/01-06/02

Principal Researcher, postdoctoral research entitled Youthful Martyrdom and Heroic Criminality: The Formation of Youth Groups in Northern Nigeria, Kano, Nigeria, 06/00-06/01, 06/01-06/02

Senior Research Associate, Drug Abuse Research Center, University of California, Los Angeles

Senior Research Associate, School of Nursing, University of California, Los Angeles 

Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles

Principal Researcher, dissertation research entitled Medicines for Madness: Suffering, Disability and the Identification of Enemies in Northern Nigeria, Kano, Nigeria, 6/91-9/91, 8/92-12/92, 8/93-12/93, 7/94-9/94, 12/94-9/95, 6/96-9/96

Coordinator of Data Collection, School of Nursing, University of California, Los Angeles

Research Assistant, Director of Research, Division of Adolescent Medicine, Children's Hospital, Los Angeles

Crisis Clinician, Howard Center for Human Services, Burlington, VT, 11/96-5/98

Director, Drug and Alcohol Triage and Consultation Service, Boston City Hospital, Boston, MA, 12/89-12/90

Emergency Clinician, South Shore Mental Health Center, Quincy, MA, 3/90-11/90

Crisis Clinician, Crisis Clinic, Vermont Medical Center, Burlington, VT, 12/88-12/89

Children's Services Worker, Department of Children's Services, Los Angeles County, Los Angeles, CA, 6/86-11/87, 2/91-6/91

Therapeutic Intern, Beverlywood Mental Health Center, Los Angeles, CA, 2/85-6/86

Senior Counselor, Berkeley Academy for Youth Development, Berkeley, CA, 8/83-9/84

Lecturer, Comparative Religion, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles, 08/02-10/02

Lecturer, The Anthropology of Abnormality and Deviancy, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles, 01/99-03/99, 04/00-06/00, 06/02-07/02, 06/02-08/02

Lecturer, Africa: Coloniality and Post-coloniality through Lived Experience, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles, 04/00-06/00

Lecturer, Genocide: The Politics of Purification and Exile, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles, 09/99-12/99

Instructor, Infant through Adolescent Development, Florence Crittenton Center, hired by Division of Social Psychiatry, University of California, Los Angeles, 4/96-10/96

Teaching Assistant, Sociocultural Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles, 1/96- 3/96

Teaching Assistant, Biological Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles, 10/95- 12/95

Associate Lecturer, Cultural Psychology, Department of Medicine, Bayero University, Kano, Nigeria, 5/95-9/95

Guggenheim Research Awards, 06/00-06/01, 06/01-06/02

Association for Political and Legal Anthropology Student Essay Prize, 11/97

Dissertation Year Award, UCLA, 9/96-6/97

Research Award, Social Psychiatry, UCLA, 7/96-9/96

Fellowship, Department of Anthropology, UCLA, 4/96-6/96

Fulbright IIE, 12/94-10/95

Research Award, Department of Anthropology, UCLA, fall 1994

Research Award, Social Psychiatry, UCLA, 7/94-9/94

Hortense Fishbaugh Memorial Scholarship, UCLA, fall 1994

Research Award, Department of Anthropology, UCLA, 7/93-12/93

Research Award, Psychocultural Studies Program, UCLA, 7/93-12/93

Title XI Funding Award, Intensive Hausa Program, Kano, Nigeria, summer 1991

Outstanding Student Award, USC, 1985

Anderson, Nancy, A. Nyamathi, J. McAvoy, F. Conde and C. Casey, Perceptions about risk for HIV/AIDS among adolescents in juvenile detention. Western Journal of Nursing Research, 23 (4): 336-359.

Anderson, Nancy, G. Uman, C. Keenan, D. Koniak-Griffin and C. Casey, 1996 The process of instrument development for ethnically diverse early adolescents. The Journal of Early Adolescence (16)4: 427-450.

Books and Articles

Identity and difference in today’s Nigeria. In Workbook on Ethnic Conflicts, V. Volkan and G. Irani, Eds. (forthcoming in 2002)

Schizophrenia and witchcraft in northern Nigeria: Subjectivity and the contradictions of modern life. In The Edge of Experience: Culture, Subjectivity and Schizophrenia, Robert Barrett and Janis Jenkins, Eds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (forthcoming in 2002).

Agency. Companion to Psychological Anthropology: Modernity and Psychocultural Change, Conerly Casey and Robert Edgerton, Eds. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, Inc. (forthcoming in 2002)

(1998) Suffering and the Identification of Enemies in Northern Nigeria. Political and Legal Anthropology Review, 21 (1): 1-25.

(1997) Medicines for Madness: Suffering, Disability and the Identification of Enemies in Northern Nigeria. Dissertation, University of California. Ann Arbor, MI: UMI Publishers.

Casey, Conerly and Robert Edgerton, Eds. Companion to Psychological Anthropology: Modernity and Psychocultural Change. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, Inc. (forthcoming in 2002)

2001 The formation of cultural enemies: Media and perceptions of cultural aggression among Nigerian youths, Invited Session, Society for Psychological Anthropology, Decatur, Georgia

2001 Security and morality in northern Nigeria: Youth gangs as the keepers and breakers of Shari’ah Law, Invited Session, American Anthropological Association, Washington, D.C.

2000 Schizophrenia and witchcraft as dual diagnoses: Nosologies and the contradictions of life in northern Nigeria, Culture and Medicine Series, Neuropsychiatric Institute, School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles

Possession by worldly spirits and spirit conversions to Islam: Islamist medicine in Northern Nigeria, African Studies Center, University of California, Los Angeles

1998 Metalogical Lines of Flight: Subjective Survival and Symptoms of Schizophrenia and Witchcraft in Northern Nigeria, International symposium sponsored by the Russell Sage Foundation entitled The Edge of Experience: Culture, Subjectivity and Schizophrenia, New York, New York

1997 Mass Hysteria or Spirit Possession?: Diagnostic Debates in Hausaland, Nigeria, Department of Psychiatry, Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia

2001 Casey, Conerly and Alex Hinton, Co-organizers, Invited Session, American Anthropological Association, Modern Minds: Psychocultural Approaches to Globalization.

2001 Hinton, Alex and Conerly Casey, Co-organizers, Invited Session, Society for Psychological Anthropology, Globalization: Psychocultural Approaches.