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University of Connecticut: Storrs, US

2024 to present | Professor (Anthropology)
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Sarah S. Willen

University of Connecticut: Storrs, CT, US

2017 to 2024 | Associate Professor (Anthropology)
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Sarah S. Willen

University of Connecticut: Storrs, CT, US

2011 to 2017 | Assistant Professor (Anthropology)
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Sarah S. Willen

Southern Methodist University: Dallas, TX, US

2009 to 2011 | Assistant Professor (Anthropology)
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Sarah S. Willen

Education and qualifications (4)

Harvard Medical School: Boston, MA, US

2006 to 2009 | Posdoctoral Fellow (Global Health & Social Medicine)
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Sarah S. Willen

Emory University: Atlanta, GA, US

2004 to 2006 | MPH (Public Health)
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Sarah S. Willen

Emory University: Atlanta, GA, US

1998 to 2006 | PhD (Anthropology)
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Sarah S. Willen

Case Western Reserve University: Cleveland, OH, US

1996 | BA (English)
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Works (45)

Assembling vaccine perspectives: Vaccination and moral self-talk in the journals of white US mothers during Covid-19

SSM - Qualitative Research in Health
2024 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssmqr.2024.100454
EID:

2-s2.0-85197621531

Part of ISSN: 26673215
Contributors: Mason, K.A.; Wurtz, H.M.; Boracci, S.; Willen, S.S.
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Cultivating Voice and Solidarity in Times of Crisis: Ethnographic Online Journaling as a Pedagogical Tool

Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry
2024 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1007/s11013-023-09832-6
EID:

2-s2.0-85171993172

Part of ISSN: 1573076X 0165005X
Contributors: Willen, S.S.; Baines, K.; Ennis-McMillan, M.C.
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Introduction: Student Experiences of COVID-19 Around the Globe: Insights from the Pandemic Journaling Project

Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry
2024 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1007/s11013-024-09848-6
EID:

2-s2.0-85186886061

Part of ISSN: 1573076X 0165005X
Contributors: Wurtz, H.M.; Mason, K.A.; Willen, S.S.
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“I want the world back”: Pandemic loneliness, bodies, and places

Ethos
2024 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/etho.12423
EID:

2-s2.0-85186176386

Part of ISSN: 15481352 00912131
Contributors: Parsons, M.A.; Mason, K.A.; Wurtz, H.M.; Willen, S.S.
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Erratum to “Ukuphumelela: Flourishing and the pursuit of a good life, and good health, in Soweto, South Africa”[Soc. Sci. Med.: Mental Health 1 (December 2021) SSMMH 100022] (SSM - Mental Health (2021) 1, (S2666560321000220), (10.1016/j.ssmmh.2021.100022))

SSM - Mental Health
2022 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssmmh.2022.100069
EID:

2-s2.0-85149599385

Part of ISSN: 26665603
Contributors: Cele, L.; Willen, S.S.; Dhanuka, M.; Mendenhall, E.
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Flourishing and health in critical perspective: An invitation to interdisciplinary dialogue

SSM - Mental Health
2022 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssmmh.2021.100045
EID:

2-s2.0-85128318284

Part of ISSN: 26665603
Contributors: Willen, S.S.
Source: Self-asserted source
Sarah S. Willen via Scopus - Elsevier

Introduction: Journaling and Mental Health during COVID-19: Insights from the Pandemic Journaling Project

SSM - Mental Health
2022 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssmmh.2022.100141
EID:

2-s2.0-85149602846

Part of ISSN: 26665603
Contributors: Wurtz, H.M.; Willen, S.S.; Mason, K.A.
Source: Self-asserted source
Sarah S. Willen via Scopus - Elsevier

Learning to See Racism: Perspective Transformation among Stakeholders in a Regional Health and Equity Initiative

Journal of Public Health Management and Practice
2022 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1097/PHH.0000000000001171
EID:

2-s2.0-85102738733

Part of ISSN: 15505022 10784659
Contributors: Walsh, C.C.; Willen, S.S.; Williamson, A.F.
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Must the tired and poor "Stand on Their Own Two Feet"?: Tools for analyzing how migrants' deservingness is reckoned

Migration and Health: Challenging the Borders of Belonging, Care, and Policy
2022 | Book chapter
Part of DOI: 10.1515/9781800735026-003
EID:

2-s2.0-85136775455

Part of ISBN: 9781800735026 9781800735019
Contributors: Willen, S.S.; Cook, J.
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Must the tired and poor 'Stand on Their Own Two Feet'?: Tools for analysing how migrants' deservingness is reckoned

Ethnographies of Deservingness: Unpacking Ideologies of Distribution and Inequality
2022 | Book chapter
EID:

2-s2.0-85139667844

Part of ISBN: 9781800736009 9781800735996
Contributors: Willen, S.S.; Cook, J.
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Sarah S. Willen via Scopus - Elsevier

Rethinking flourishing: Critical insights and qualitative perspectives from the U.S. Midwest

SSM - Mental Health
2022 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssmmh.2021.100057
EID:

2-s2.0-85128275424

Part of ISSN: 26665603
Contributors: Willen, S.S.; Williamson, A.F.; Walsh, C.C.; Hyman, M.; Tootle, W.
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Shouldering the load yet again: Black women's experiences of stress during COVID-19

SSM - Mental Health
2022 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssmmh.2022.100140
EID:

2-s2.0-85149599032

Part of ISSN: 26665603
Contributors: Kalinowski, J.; Wurtz, H.; Baird, M.; Willen, S.
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“Languishing” in critical perspective: Roots and routes of a traveling concept in COVID-19 times

SSM - Mental Health
2022 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssmmh.2022.100128
EID:

2-s2.0-85149607472

Part of ISSN: 26665603
Contributors: Willen, S.S.
Source: Self-asserted source
Sarah S. Willen via Scopus - Elsevier

Deservingness: Migration and health in social context

BMJ Global Health
2021 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1136/bmjgh-2021-005107
EID:

2-s2.0-85103934019

Part of ISSN: 20597908
Contributors: Holmes, S.M.; Castañeda, E.; Geeraert, J.; Castaneda, H.; Probst, U.; Zeldes, N.; Willen, S.S.; DIbba, Y.; Frankfurter, R.; Lie, A.K. et al.
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Flourishing: Migration and health in social context

BMJ Global Health
2021 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1136/bmjgh-2021-005108
EID:

2-s2.0-85103927149

Part of ISSN: 20597908
Contributors: Willen, S.S.; Selim, N.; Mendenhall, E.; Lopez, M.M.; Chowdhury, S.A.; DIlger, H.
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On Exclusionary Violence and Its Subcutaneous Consequences: A Commentary

Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry
2021 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1007/s11013-020-09696-0
EID:

2-s2.0-85098493225

Part of ISSN: 1573076X 0165005X
Contributors: Willen, S.S.
Source: Self-asserted source
Sarah S. Willen via Scopus - Elsevier

Ukuphumelela: Flourishing and the pursuit of a good life, and good health, in Soweto, South Africa

SSM - Mental Health
2021 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssmmh.2021.100022
EID:

2-s2.0-85121631500

Part of ISSN: 26665603
Contributors: Cele, L.; Willen, S.S.; Dhanuka, M.; Mendenhall, E.
Source: Self-asserted source
Sarah S. Willen via Scopus - Elsevier

Visualizing Health Equity: Qualitative Perspectives on the Value and Limits of Equity Images

Health Education and Behavior
2021 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1177/1090198121994520
EID:

2-s2.0-85102739862

Part of ISSN: 15526127 10901981
Contributors: Willen, S.S.; Walsh, C.C.; Williamson, A.F.
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Sarah S. Willen via Scopus - Elsevier

Everyday disruptions and Jewish Dilemmas: Preliminary insights from the pandemic journaling project

Jewish Social Studies
2020 | Journal article
DOI: 10.2979/jewisocistud.26.1.15
EID:

2-s2.0-85097665186

Part of ISSN: 15272028 00216704
Contributors: Willen, S.S.; Wogenstein, S.; Mason, K.A.
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Sarah S. Willen via Scopus - Elsevier

How Do You Build a "culture of Health"? A Critical Analysis of Challenges and Opportunities from Medical Anthropology

Population Health Management
2020 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1089/pop.2019.0179
EID:

2-s2.0-85088091384

Part of ISSN: 19427905 19427891
Contributors: Mason, K.A.; Willen, S.S.; Holmes, S.M.; Herd, D.A.; Nichter, M.; Castañeda, H.; Hansen, H.
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Sarah S. Willen via Scopus - Elsevier

Invoking health and human rights in the united states: Museums, classrooms, and community-based participatory research

Health and Human Rights
2019 | Journal article
EID:

2-s2.0-85073461033

Part of ISSN: 10790969
Contributors: Willen, S.S.
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Immigration dynamics and changing constructions of jewish nativeness in Israel

The Oxford Handbook of Israeli Politics and Society
2018 | Book chapter
Part of DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190675585.013.11
EID:

2-s2.0-85111856488

Part of ISBN: 9780190675585
Contributors: Zawdu, A.; Willen, S.S.
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Sarah S. Willen via Scopus - Elsevier

Syndemic vulnerability and the right to health

The Lancet
2017 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(17)30261-1
EID:

2-s2.0-85014456799

Part of ISSN: 1474547X 01406736
Contributors: Willen, S.S.; Knipper, M.; Abadía-Barrero, C.E.; Davidovitch, N.
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Cultural competence and its discontents: Reflections on a mandatory course for psychiatry residents

Global Mental Health: Anthropological Perspectives
2016 | Book chapter
Part of DOI: 10.4324/9781315428055-23
EID:

2-s2.0-85106103965

Part of ISBN: 9781315428048 9781611329230
Contributors: Willen, S.S.; Kohler, A.
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Health-related deservingness

Handbook of Migration and Health
2016 | Book chapter
EID:

2-s2.0-85075823061

Part of ISBN: 9781784714789 9781784714772
Contributors: Willen, S.S.; Cook, J.
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Lightning Rods in the Local Moral Economy: Debating Unauthorized Migrants' Deservingness in Israel

International Migration
2015 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/imig.12173
EID:

2-s2.0-84930212051

Part of ISSN: 14682435 00207985
Contributors: Willen, S.S.
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Migration as a social determinant of health for irregular migrants: Israel as case study

Social Science and Medicine
2015 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2015.10.046
EID:

2-s2.0-84946414115

Part of ISSN: 18735347 02779536
Contributors: Fleischman, Y.; Willen, S.S.; Davidovitch, N.; Mor, Z.
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Sarah S. Willen via Scopus - Elsevier

Plotting a moral trajectory, sans papiers: Outlaw motherhood as inhabitable space of welcome

Ethos
2014 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/etho.12040
EID:

2-s2.0-84896827611

Part of ISSN: 00912131 15481352
Contributors: Willen, S.S.
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Confronting a "Big Huge Gaping Wound": Emotion and Anxiety in a Cultural Sensitivity Course for Psychiatry Residents

Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry
2013 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1007/s11013-013-9310-6
EID:

2-s2.0-84878430802

Part of ISSN: 0165005X 1573076X
Contributors: Willen, S.S.
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Sarah S. Willen via Scopus - Elsevier

Cultural Competence in Action: "Lifting the Hood" on Four Case Studies in Medical Education

Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry
2013 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1007/s11013-013-9319-x
EID:

2-s2.0-84878427585

Part of ISSN: 0165005X 1573076X
Contributors: Willen, S.S.; Carpenter-Song, E.
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Sarah S. Willen via Scopus - Elsevier

Anthropology and Human Rights: Theoretical Reconsiderations and Phenomenological Explorations

Journal of Human Rights
2012 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1080/14754835.2011.619413
EID:

2-s2.0-84858678900

Part of ISSN: 14754835 14754843
Contributors: Willen, S.S.
Source: Self-asserted source
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How is health-related " deservingness" reckoned? Perspectives from unauthorized im/migrants in Tel Aviv

Social Science and Medicine
2012 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2011.06.033
EID:

2-s2.0-84857455518

Part of ISSN: 02779536 18735347
Contributors: Willen, S.S.
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Sarah S. Willen via Scopus - Elsevier

Introduction: Experience and Inquiétude

Ethos
2012 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1352.2011.01228.x
EID:

2-s2.0-84864069612

Part of ISSN: 00912131 15481352
Contributors: Willen, S.S.; Seeman, D.
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Sarah S. Willen via Scopus - Elsevier

Migration, "illegality," and health: Mapping embodied vulnerability and debating health-related deservingness

Social Science and Medicine
2012 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2011.10.041
EID:

2-s2.0-84857456857

Part of ISSN: 02779536 18735347
Contributors: Willen, S.S.
Source: Self-asserted source
Sarah S. Willen via Scopus - Elsevier

Clinician-patient matching

Shattering Culture: American Medicine Responds to Cultural Diversity
2011 | Book chapter
EID:

2-s2.0-84997905387

Part of ISBN: 9781610447522 9780871540607
Contributors: Willen, S.S.
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Do "illegal" im/migrants have a right to health? Engaging ethical theory as social practice at a Tel Aviv Open Clinic

Medical Anthropology Quarterly
2011 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1387.2011.01163.x
EID:

2-s2.0-80052392802

Part of ISSN: 07455194 15481387
Contributors: Willen, S.S.
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Pas de trois: Medical interpreters, clinical dilemmas, and the patient-provider-interpreter triad

Shattering Culture: American Medicine Responds to Cultural Diversity
2011 | Book chapter
EID:

2-s2.0-84978198510

Part of ISBN: 9781610447522 9780871540607
Contributors: Willen, S.S.
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Portrait of a psychiatrist

Shattering Culture: American Medicine Responds to Cultural Diversity
2011 | Book chapter
EID:

2-s2.0-85026542167

Part of ISBN: 9781610447522 9780871540607
Contributors: Willen, S.S.; Yaroshenko, M.; Hannah, S.D.; Vickery, K.; Good, M.-J.D.
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Shattering culture: American medicine responds to cultural diversity

Shattering Culture: American Medicine Responds to Cultural Diversity
2011 | Book
EID:

2-s2.0-84878465883

ISBN: 9781610447522 9780871540607
Contributors: Good, M.-J.D.; Willen, S.S.; Hannah, S.D.; Vickery, K.; Park, L.T.
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Shattering culture: An introduction

Shattering Culture: American Medicine Responds to Cultural Diversity
2011 | Book chapter
EID:

2-s2.0-84951752276

Part of ISBN: 9781610447522 9780871540607
Contributors: Good, M.-J.D.; Hannah, S.D.; Willen, S.S.
Source: Self-asserted source
Sarah S. Willen via Scopus - Elsevier

Take a stand commentary: How can medical anthropologists contribute to contemporary conversations on "illegal" im/migration and health?

Medical Anthropology Quarterly
2011 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1387.2011.01164.x
EID:

2-s2.0-80052398425

Part of ISSN: 07455194 15481387
Contributors: Willen, S.S.; Mulligan, J.; Castañeda, H.
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Opening up a huge can of worms: Reflections on a "cultural sensitivity" course for psychiatry residents

Harvard Review of Psychiatry
2010 | Journal article
DOI: 10.3109/10673229.2010.493748
EID:

2-s2.0-77954387749

Part of ISSN: 14657309 10673229
Contributors: Willen, S.S.; Bullon, A.; Good, M.-J.D.
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Erratum: "Toward a critical phenomenology of 'illegality': State power, criminalization, and abjectively among undocumented migrant workers in Tel aviv, Israel (International Migration (2007) vol. 45 (3) (8-38))

International Migration
2007 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2435.2007.00431.x
EID:

2-s2.0-36348983916

Part of ISSN: 00207985 14682435
Contributors: Willen, S.S.
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Exploring "illegal" and "irregular" migrants' lived experiences of law and state power

International Migration
2007 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2435.2007.00408.x
EID:

2-s2.0-34547116876

Part of ISSN: 00207985 14682435
Contributors: Willen, S.S.
Source: Self-asserted source
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Toward a critical phenomenology of "illegality": State power, criminalization, and abjectivity among undocumented migrant workers in Tel Aviv, Israel

International Migration
2007 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2435.2007.00409.x
EID:

2-s2.0-34547129100

Part of ISSN: 00207985 14682435
Contributors: Willen, S.S.
Source: Self-asserted source
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Peer review (5 reviews for 2 publications/grants)

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