Seth M. Holmes, PhD, MD, is on faculty in the Division of Society and Environment and the Joint Program in Medical Anthropology. A cultural and medical anthropologist and physician, he has worked on social hierarchies, health inequities, and the ways in which such asymmetries are naturalized, normalized, and resisted in the context of transnational im/migration, agro-food systems, and health care. He has received national and international awards from the fields of anthropology, sociology, and geography, including the Margaret Mead Award. In addition to scholarly publications, he has written for popular media such as the Huffington Post and Salon.com and spoken on multiple NPR, PRI, Pacifica Radio and Radio Bilingüe radio programs.
Visit Professor Holmes' personal website here and his department website here to see his most current projects.
January 26, 2021: Iatrogenesis and harm in covid-19—when medical care ignores social forces (The BJM Opinion)
June 13, 2020: Michigan reports 180 COVID-19 cases, 22 deaths (Grand Haven Tribune)
June 12, 2020: Florida Migrant Towns Become Coronavirus Hot Spots in US (VOA News)
June 4, 2020: Seriously? 79 Internal Affairs Reviews? (Esquire)
April 30, 2020: Seth Holmes: As societies re-open in this pandemic, we need social solidarity to survive the summer (The BMJ Opinion)
April 14, 2020: US food workers are in danger. That threatens all of us (The Guardian)
March 29, 2020: In a defunded health system, doctors and nurses suffer near-impossible conditions (Salon)
February 18, 2015: Book Review: What Cancer Teaches Us About Ourselves (Speaking of Medicine)
February 7, 2020: Worsening immigration climate pushes health workers into politics (Bemidiji Pioneer)
February 6, 2015: What's it like to be a migrant farmworker? One anthropologist lived and worked alongside them. (The World)
November 11, 2013: Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: an ethnography of migrant farm workers (Haverford Clerk)
July 27, 2013: Unseen sacrifices (The Spokesman)
