Allen Tran

Assistant Professor of Anthropology

Email: allen.tran@bucknell.edu
Telephone: 570.577.1396

Allen Tran received his Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of California, San Diego in 2012. His research broadly links affect, mental health and illness, and the body with the technologies of the self associated with global capitalism in East and Southeast Asia. His current project focuses on the cultural politics and phenomenology of anxiety and anxiety disorders in post-reform Vietnam. Other interests include psychological anthropology, medical anthropology, cross-cultural psychiatry, culture and emotion theory, trauma and violence theory, post-socialism, and anthropological theories of everyday life, well-being, and happiness. 

Courses Taught:

ANTH 109: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology

ANTH 209: Medical Anthropology

ANTH 291: Culture and Mind

ANTH 306: Culture and Madness