Adriane Roso

Adriane Roso

Post-Doctoral Fellow
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I am a Post-Doctoral Fellow from Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM), Brazil, where I am an Associate Professor for the Psychology Department (Undergrad & Grad) since 2008. I received my master’s Degree in Personality and Social Psychology, and my Doctoral Degree in Psychology, from the Pontifical Catholic University, Brazil. I also received a post-doctoral training in Communication, from UFSM.
Before coming to Harvard, I spent a year and a half as a Fulbright visiting scholar at Columbia University, NY, at the Mailman School of Public Health, mentored by the anthropologist Prof. Dr. Richard G. Parker.
My latest book title expresses my research interests: Critic and Dialogicity in Social Psychology: Health, Minorities and Communication. Santa Maria, RS: UFSM Press (EDUFSM), 2017, 409p. I’ve been interested in understanding, mainly through qualitative approaches, how relations of domination (violence) and power relations produce the ways we talk, think and interact with each other.
The object of my current study at Harvard University is the medicalized body. I want to analyze how public discourses (media, pharmaceutical/biotechnology industries, the State, symbolic elites, advocacy groups) and minorities’ narratives are co-constructed in the medicalization process.
My work asks questions such as, how social representations of gender shapes the behaviors and thoughts of people when they deal with their own body or someone’s else? How do the intersections of different hierarchical systems of power (of gender, race/ethnicity, etc.) manufacture a body and (dis) enable the struggle for social minority rights? How subjectivity and contextual political-economic geographies interfere on dealing with health matters and the modes of consumption of new medications and technologies?
Those are initial questions. Much more shall be created, propelled by my colleagues at Sidanius Lab and by my insurgent psychosocial imagination.

Contact Information

1446 William James Hall
33 Kirkland Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

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