Olivia Rose Marcus is a Ph.D. candidate in applied medical anthropology at the University of Connecticut. Her fieldwork in the Peruvian Amazon explores mental wellness, professionalization, and legitimization of Amazonian healing techniques among locals and foreigners.
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Olivia Marcus received her MPH in Sociomedical Sciences from Columbia University, which provided training in health behavior, intervention design, and program evaluation. Her earlier research on HIV/AIDS prevention and sexual health involved an inquiry into traditional, complementary, and alternative approaches to healing and symptom management. She has authored articles on ethnomedical responses to the 2014/15 Ebola epidemic, plant medicine in the Peruvian Amazon, and mental health implications of ayahuasca shamanism.
Notable Research Papers
- Loving Ebola-chan: Internet memes in an epidemic (Olivia Rose Marcus & Merrill Singer, 2017)
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She has given many talks:
- Moderator for keynote interview with Wade Davis (ICPR, 2020)
- Traditionalizing global forms: ethics in vegetalista practices of the Peruvian Amazon (Panel on the Globalization Ayahuasca at ICPR, 2020)
- Navigating emergent mental health resources through plant medicine in the Peruvian Amazon (Psychedelic Panel at the American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, 2018)
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