Prof Ned Dostaler

Professor, Researcher, Scholar in Humanities and Social Sciences

About

A transdisciplinary research scholar, teacher, mentor, editor, and artist with graduate-level training and extensive teaching experience in disciplines across the social sciences (anthropology) and humanities (psychoanalytic philosophy). Driven by the desire to produce and nourish rigorous, critical, and creative inquiry that not only adds knowledge to the world but shifts the coordinates of what knowledge can be and do.

Education

University of California Berkeley (UC Berkeley)

PhD Anthropology, Anthropology / 2025

University of Oxford (Oxford)

MPhil Medical Anthropology (Distinction), Medical Anthropology / 2015

Southern Connecticut State University (SCSU)

B.S. Exercise Science (Summa Cum Laude), Exercise Science / 2010

Bombay Institute for Critical Analysis and Research (BICAR)

Certificate Program in Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Contemporary Psychoanalysis / 2023

Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute (CPI)

Certificate Program in Psychoanalysis for Scholars, Psychoanalysis / 2023

Experience

Manipal Institute of Social Sciences Humanities & Arts

Assistant Professor / January, 2025 — December

Full-time Assistant Professor designing and teaching the core curriculum and syllabus for a range of courses across the humanities, social sciences, and arts. Includes thesis supervision and administrative duties as a Core Member of Student Affairs Committee. Courses taught include Social Self, Social Anthropology, Introduction to Kinship, Visual Anthropology, and Social Movements.

UC Berkeley

Lecturer / January, 2023 — December, 2024

Independently designed and taught courses for first-year undergraduate students focused on developing reading, writing, and research skills. Courses included 'What's the Problem?', 'Psychoanalysis, Art and Transformation', and 'Writing Through the Other'.

Graduate Student Instructor / January, 2022 — May, 2022

Responsible for teaching three sections of roughly twenty students, supporting understanding of lecture content and reading assignments, grading assignments and exams, and holding regular office hours. Occasionally provided guest lectures on topics of expertise (e.g., research methods). Taught 'Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology'.

Graduate Student Instructor / August, 2019 — December, 2019

Course Reader / January, 2017 — May, 2017

Supported the course 'Ethnographic Film: History, Theory and Aesthetics'.

University of Oxford

Teaching Associate / January, 2015 — April, 2015

Taught weekly tutorials on medical anthropology to medical students. Assisted with the development of lecture material for introductory medical anthropology course.

Banyan Academy of Leadership in Mental Health (BALM)

Guest Lecturer / October, 2013 — June, 2014

Offered lectures on medical anthropology and research methodology. Provided research mentorship to students in Master of Social Work (MSW) program.

Southern Connecticut State University (SCSU)

Teaching Assistant / October, 2009 — May, 2010

Taught lecture and lab on heart physiology; mentored students taking courses in Exercise Physiology, Kinesiology, Exercise & Nutrition, and Introduction to Exercise Science.

Research and Lab Assistant / September, 2008 — May, 2010

Assisted with research and lab activities in the Human Performance Lab.

Cultural Anthropology

Contributing Editor / December, 2014 — April, 2018

Contributed to editorial processes for the journal.

HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory and HAU Books

Assistant Editor / November, 2014 — February, 2017

Assisted with editorial tasks for the journal and books.

Anthropology & Medicine

Associate Editor / June, 2015 — December, 2016

Contributed to editorial work for the journal.

Human Welfare Journal (Oxford)

Managing Editor / January, 2012 — April, 2013

Managed editorial operations for the journal.

Institute for South Asia UC Berkeley

Administrative Assistant / September, 2024 — December, 2024

Provided administrative support.

The Banyan (Chennai India)

Research Associate / September, 2013 — July, 2014

Conducted research as a Research Associate.

Yale School of Medicine (New Haven USA)

Research Associate / July, 2011 — March, 2013

Conducted research as a Research Associate.

Sangath PRIME Project (Bhopal India)

Research Associate / July, 2012 — September, 2012

Conducted research as a Research Associate.

Tanzanian Ministry of Health (Tanzania)

Research Consultant / September, 2010 — April, 2011

Provided research consulting services.

Ocean Road Cancer Institute (Tanzania)

Research Associate / September, 2010 — April, 2011

Conducted research as a Research Associate.

Hartford Hospital

Research Fellow / June, 2009 — May, 2010

Served as a Research Fellow in the Department of Cardiology.

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