Jenna Grant

Jenna Grant is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Washington. Her work focuses on sociocultural anthropology, medical anthropology, and Southeast Asia Studies. She is core faculty in the Medical Anthropology & Global Health (MAGH) program and the Center for Southeast Asia & its Diasporas (CSEAD). Her research explores postcolonial and Cold War histories through medical, technological, and visual practices in Cambodia, emphasizing care and repair in health systems and collective identities.

Recent research includes a sabbatical at the Royal University of Phnom Penh, investigating antimalarial drug resistance in the Thai-Cambodia border region and teaching in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. Her book Fixing the Image: Ultrasound and the Visuality of Care in Phnom Penh (2022) examines medical imaging as a site of care and repair. Teaching interests include technology studies, multimodal anthropology, and sociocultural theory.

No scientific awards are explicitly listed in the provided text. She advises undergraduate students in the MAGH program but no specific names are provided. No grants or lab affiliations are detailed beyond her programmatic roles.