Nana Osei Quarshie

Nana Osei Quarshie is an Assistant Professor at Yale University, affiliated with the Department of History, Program in the History of Science and Medicine, Yale School of Medicine’s History of Medicine Section, and the Department of Anthropology. His research focuses on the intersection of psychiatry, social stratification, and colonial/postcolonial histories in West Africa.

• Education: BA from University of Toronto (2011), MSc from LSE (2012), MA from Columbia University (2013), PhD from University of Michigan (2020)

Research interests include global histories of psychiatry, African systems of thought, and decolonizing historical methodologies. His book project An African Pharmakon examines psychiatric care’s role in shaping social hierarchies and identities in West Africa.

Publications span topics like mass expulsion policies, psychiatric nursing conspiracies, and confinement practices in colonial contexts. His work has been supported by prestigious fellowships including the Chateaubriand Fellowship and SSRC IDRF.

• Teaching: Courses on global psychiatric history, African intellectual traditions, and archival methodologies