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Katie Kilroy-Marac is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Toronto Scarborough. Her research bridges sociocultural anthropology with critical psychiatry, focusing on memory, temporality, and cross-cultural mental health practices.
- Primary Campus: Scarborough (UTSC)
- Office: MW 373 (Main), AP 334 (St. George)
- Contact: katie.kilroy.marac@utoronto.ca
Research Interests: Kilroy-Marac examines intersections of psychiatric thought, material culture, and postcolonial transformations. Key areas include:
- Memory and history in medical contexts
- Hoarding as a mental disorder and media spectacle
- Tiny House Movement and consumption ethics
- French colonial psychiatry legacy
- Experimental ethnography and archive-based art
- Regimes of care across cultural divides
Publication Trends: Recent work explores hoarding's role in kinship dynamics (2022), material culture's impact on mental health (2018), and temporality in psychiatric care (2019 book). Her 2023 article connects topoanalysis to hoarding practices, while 2021 pieces critique colonial legacies.
Scientific Awards: Recipient of the 2019 Labrecque-Lee Book Prize for her groundbreaking work on postcolonial psychiatry in Senegal.
Education & Affiliations: PhD from Columbia University (2010). Member of AAA, AES, SCA, ASA, AMHIG, and WARA.
