A Jamie Saris Editor & Author

Thomas Fillitz is both Associate Professor of Social Anthropology and Director of the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropologyat the University of Vienna. He has been a visiting professor at the Universite des Sciences et Technologies Lille-1 (2001, 2003), at the Universite Lumiere Lyon-2 (2008), and at Universite Paris Descartes (2011). He has published Zeitgenosssische Kunst aus Afrika. Vierzehn Kunstler aus Cote d'Ivoire und Benin (2002) and many other articles and book chapters. A. Jamie Saris is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Anthropology at the National University of Ireland-Maynooth and Co-Chair of the Combat Diseases of Poverty Consortium. He has been working more than fifteen years in medical and psychological anthropology in Ireland, North America and Africa. For the past five years, he has focused on issues connected to poverty and structural violence in European cities, especially Dublin. He sits on the editorial board of Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry and was previously the Editor of The Irish Journal of Anthropology.