Rate My Professor Andrew Lakoff

Trained as an anthropologist of science and medicine, Lakoff's research explores globalization processes, the history of the human sciences, contemporary social theory, and risk society. His ethnographic studies in Argentina, France, and the United States address expertise in public health and security, global pharmaceutical circulation, biological models of human behavior, visual technologies in behavioral sciences, attention deficit disorder history, antidepressants and placebo effects, and global health expertise forms. He has held fellowships at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (2016–2017) and the International Center for Advanced Studies at New York University (2006–2007), and serves as co-editor of Limn magazine. Key publications include Unprepared: Global Health in a Time of Emergency (University of California Press, 2017), Pharmaceutical Reason: Knowledge and Value in Global Psychiatry (Cambridge University Press, 2005), Biosecurity Interventions: Global Health and Security in Question (co-edited, Columbia University Press, 2008), Global Pharmaceuticals: Ethics, Markets, Practices (co-edited, Duke University Press, 2006), and Disaster and the Politics of Intervention (edited, Columbia University Press, 2010). Notable articles are 'Two Regimes of Global Health' (Humanity, 2010), 'The Generic Biothreat, or, How We Became Unprepared' (Cultural Anthropology, 2008), and 'Vital Systems Security: Reflexive Biopolitics and the Government of Emergency' (Theory, Culture & Society, 2015).