Two UCLA professors elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences

UCLA professor-in-residence of psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences Philippe Bourgois and UCLA professor of economics Rosa Matzkin are among 213 individuals from a wide range of disciplines and professions to be elected as members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2018.Founded in 1780, the academy honors exceptional scholars, leaders, artists and innovators and engages them in sharing knowledge and addressing challenges facing the world.Bourgois is also director of the Center for Social Medicine and Humanities within the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior and a professor in the departments of anthropology and sociology in the UCLA College. As director of the Center for Social Medicine, Bourgois is leading a new initiative documenting the intersection between mental illness, poverty, incarceration, homelessness and racism in Los Angeles.He is widely known for his work as a medical anthropologist, in which he has closely documented the lives of homeless drug addicts in San Francisco, crack addicts in New York and drug dealers in Philadelphia.His book, “Righteous Dopefiend,” published in 2009 by University of California Press, chronicles a social network of two dozen heroin injectors and crack users on the streets of San Francisco during the course of a decade. Bourgois’ upcoming book, “Cornered,” which will be published by Princeton Uni versity Press, is based on almost a dozen years of collaborative, participant-observation fieldwork i...
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