Ellen E. Kozelka
The Robert A. 1925 and Catherine L. McKennan Postdoctoral Fellow
My research interests include the US-México border; the phenomenology of healing; migration and health; ethnographic methods; and global mental health. My previous research focused on therapeutic experience in community-based (non-biomedical) drug treatment in the United-States-Mexico border zone.
My ongoing research explores cross-border conceptions of mental illness and substance use as well as their relationship to care-seeking and therapeutic experience.
Contact
Department(s)
Anthropology
Education
- Ph.D. University of California, San Diego
- M.A. University of California, San Diego
- B.A. University of Notre Dame
Selected Publications
Kozelka, Ellen E.
2022. “The Guard’s Dilemma: Social Roles and Therapeutic Experience for Inpatient-Guards in Tijuana’s Community-Based Addiction Treatment.” Ethos. https://doi.org/10.1111/etho.12326
Kozelka, Ellen E., Janis H. Jenkins, and Elizabeth Carpenter-Song
2021. “Advancing Health Equity in Digital Mental Health: Lessons from Medical Anthropology through COVID-19 and Beyond.” JMIR Ment Health 8 (8):e28555. doi: 10.2196/28555.
Kozelka, Ellen E.
2018 “Concepciones culturales del ‘drogadicto’ en la frontera de México-Estados Unidos y la formación del clima de tratamiento en dos centros de rehabilitación Tijuanenses.” In ¿Dejar las drogas con ayuda de Dios?: Experiencias de internamiento en centros de rehabilitación religiosos y espirituales en la región fronteriza de Baja California, edited by Olga Odgers Ortiz and Olga Lidia Olivas Hernández, Pp. 31-54. Tijuana: El Colegio de la Frontera Norte.
Kozelka, Ellen E. and Janis H. Jenkins
2017 “Renaming non-communicable diseases.” The Lancet Global Health 5(7):e655. DOI: 10.1016/s2214-109x(17)30211-5.