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Dr. Sung-Joon Park

Sung-Joon Park

Sung-Joon Park

Scientific Collaborator (until 2014-03-31)
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Phone: +49-345 55-24 197
Member of the LOST-Group    

Overview

Curriculum Vitae

03/2011-02/2013

Seminar for Anthropology and Philosophy, Martin-Luther University  Halle-Wittenberg, DFG Priority Program 1448

02/2009-03/2011
PhD Candidate at the Max-Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in  Halle/Germany; Research Group “Law, Organization, Science, Technology in  Africa”

07/2008-01/2009
Associate at the Max-Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in  Halle/Germany; Research Group “Law, Organization, Science, Technology in  Africa”

Since 07/2008
PhD start-up grant; Graduate School “Culture and Society in Motion” Halle/Germany

07/2008
Magister Artium Social Anthropology,
MA-thesis: “Tender as a Form of the State: How Procurement reorganises State and Society in South Africa”

10/2004-07/2008
Magister Social Anthropology Philosophy at the Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany

03/2004
Ba. Sc. In Computer Science and Philosophy
Ba-thesis: “An ontological analysis of biological organisms and its application in biomedical classification systems”

10/2003-03/2004
University of Liverpool, UK; Computer Science, Philosophy; Erasmus/Sokrates exchange student

10/1999-03/2004
University of Leipzig, Germany; Computer Science, Philosophy

Publications

  • Park, Sung-Joon 2012 „Stock-outs in global health: Pharmaceutical governance and uncertainties in the global supply of ARVs in Uganda“. In Rethinking Biomedicine and Governance in Africa. P.W. Geissler, R. Rottenburg, and J. Zenker, eds. Pp. 177-194. Bielefeld: Transcript.

Projects

  • "What  counts in ART? Pharmaceutical government, scientific knowledge, and  mass HIV treatment in the making of global public health in Uganda"
  • “Measuring Insecurity: PTSD and human security in post-war Northern Uganda"

Fieldwork

  • Uganda 2012 (1 month)
  • Uganda 2010-2011 (3 months)
  • Uganda 2009-2010 (11 months)
  • Cape Town, South Africa 2006-2007 (7 months)

Teaching

  • SS 2009 – Seminar: Von Menschen und Medikamenten
  • SS 2011 – Seminar: Medicines in Africa (with Herbert Muyinda and David Kyaddondo)

Research Interests

  • Anthropology of biomedicine
  • Global health, and the state
  • Science and Technology Studies
  • Antiretroviral therapy, PTSD Uganda

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