Kenneth MacLeish, PhD

Associate Professor of Medicine, Health & Society and Anthropology, Vanderbilt University

Kenneth MacLeish, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Medicine, Health & Society and Anthropology at Vanderbilt University. His research has focused extensively on bodily and emotional experiences of contemporary war, and the emergence and contestation of war-related injury categories, with a frequent emphasis on mental illness. His scholarship has appeared in the journals Medical Anthropology, BioSocieties, History of the Human Sciences, Medical Anthropology Quarterly, Critical Military Studies, and Ethnos. He is the author of the award-winning Making War at Fort Hood: Life and Uncertainty in a Military Community (Princeton University Press, 2013), which explores how the biopolitics of contemporary war-making take shape in the everyday and intimate lives of the servicemembers, veterans, families, and care providers whose labor produces post-9/11 US wars.