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Katherine A. Mason is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Brown University, specializing in medical anthropology, global health, and China studies. She directs undergraduate studies in the Department of Anthropology and is affiliated with the Population Studies and Training Center, Program in Science and Technology Studies, and the Swearer Center. Her research focuses on public health transformations in China post-SARS, pandemic responses (via the Pandemic Journaling Project), and perinatal mental health. She has authored Infectious Change (2016), which won the 2019 Foundation for the Sociology of Health and Illness Book Prize.
Education: PhD in Social Anthropology (Harvard, 2011), AM (Harvard, 2007), BS (Yale, 2001). Awards include the 2023 Boyer Paper Prize and 2022 William G. McLoughlin Teaching Award. Current projects include NSF-funded studies on first-generation college students during the pandemic and immigrant women's mental health in NYC. She also serves as a certified postpartum doula and maternal mental health advocate.
Teaching includes courses on the anthropology of China, bioethics, and mental health. Collaborations involve multidisciplinary teams at Brown and international partners, including work with Yifeng Cai on Shanghai's pandemic experiences and with Andrea Flores on immigrant health disparities. Her work bridges ethnographic fieldwork with policy analysis, emphasizing engaged scholarship and community partnerships.
