Charles Briggs combines linguistic and medical anthropology with social/cultural anthropology and folkloristics. He has focused on using a variety of critical approaches in exploring how precarious poetics and social constructions of language, communication, and media structure and are structured by everyday life in zones of racialization, power, danger, and often death.
Media Mentions
Dec 5, 2016: Charles Briggs Wins Mentorship Award from Society for Medical Anthropology (Anthropology, UC Berkeley)
Aug. 22, 2016: Picture of Suffering: Charles Briggs Documents Rabies and Disease in Venezuela (California Magazine, UC Berkeley)
