Devin Flaherty
Assistant Professor, Anthropology
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Research Interests
- attention
- care
- older adults
- disaster
- end of life
- Caribbean
Degrees
- Ph.D. in Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles (2018)
Presentations
2023 “When Hospice Isn’t a ‘Choice’: Disregard, Care and End of Life on the American Periphery.” Globalizing Palliative Care Project, Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology. Leiden University. Leiden, The Netherlands. February 28.
2022 “Existential Ambivalence: Exploring Narratives of the Future in the Face of a Terminal Prognosis.” Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association. Seattle, WA. November 10.
2022 “Attentional Shifts in Long-Term Disaster Response: An Examination of the Exceptional.” Attention: An Interdisciplinary Workshop, London School of Economics. London, UK. September 15.
2022 "Keeping Promises Alive: A Commitment to Care as Future Orientation in the Face of (Possible) Death." European Association of Social Anthropology. Belfast, UK. July 29.
2021 “Disaster and Disregard: Attentional Habits of the (Post)Colonial Metropole in the Time of Climate Change.” Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association. Baltimore, MD. November 19.
2021 “Attentional Shifts of Long-Term Disaster Response: St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands 3.5 Years after Hurricane Maria.” Biennial Meetings of the Society for Psychological Anthropology. Conference held online, April 6-10.
2019 “Leaving to Get Away: Broken Kinship, Aloneness, and Possible Expatriates.” Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association. Vancouver, CA, November 20-24.
2019 “‘I’m just waitin for the time when she gets a little lower’: Examining an Instance of Waiting as Care.” Biennial Meetings of the Society for Psychological Anthropology. April 4-7, Albuquerque, NM.
Grants, Patents and Clinical Trials
Grant:
Anticipating the Next Storm: Constructing Vulnerability in Post-Maria St. Croix U.S. Virgin Islands. Duration: 2022 - 2023. Total Dollars: $20,000
Publications
2021 “Extraterritoriality at the End of Life: Disregard and the Exceptional in St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands.” Culture, Theory and Critique 62(1-2): 24-39
2021 “(Un)Deservingness and Disregard: Chronicity, Hospice and Possibilities for Care in the American Periphery.” In Managing Chronicity in Unequal States: Ethnographic Perspectives on Caring. Laura Montesi and Melania Calestani, eds. Pp 49-69. University College London Press.
2020 “The ‘Last Child’: Lone Family Caregivers in St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands.” Medical Anthropology 39(1): 16-28. Special Issue on “Relational and Affective Practices of Care: Aging, Chronicity and Negotiations of Care.”
2019 “‘Takin’ it One Day at a Time’: (Not) Anticipating as Moral Project.” Cambridge Journal of Anthropology 37(1): 61-76. 2019 “Experiencing Anticipation: Anthropological Perspectives.” Co-authored with Christopher Stephan. Cambridge Journal of Anthropology 37(1): 1-16
2018 “Between Living Well and Dying Well: Existential Ambivalence and Keeping Promises Alive.” Death Studies 42(5): 314-321.
2018 “Facing Death: On Mourning, Empathy and Finitude.” First author, with C. Jason Throop. In A Companion to the Anthropology of Death. Antonius C.G.M. Robben, ed. Pp. 161-173. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons
