Caroline Parker

Caroline M. Parker is a Presidential Fellow of Medical Anthropology at the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Manchester. Dr Parker’s work combines approaches in medical anthropology and carceral studies with a geographical focus on the Caribbean and the United States. She has published over twenty articles in journals including American Ethnologist, The New England Journal of Medicine, Science Technology and Human Values, The American Journal of Public Health, and Medical Anthropology Quarterly (among others). Her first book — Carceral Citizens: Labor, Confinement, and Self-help in Puerto Rico — examines the coalescence of the carceral state and the voluntary sector in Puerto Rico and is currently under review. Dr Parker’s research has been funded by the British Academy, the Leverhulme Trust, the Open Society Foundation, the Foundation for Opioid Research Efforts, the US National Science Foundation, the US National Institutes of Health, the US National Institute of Drug Abuse, the US Social Science Research Council. A small capacity-building grant from BPI will support the development of a university-in-prison pilot, at the University of Manchester, beginning September 2023.