Vieda Shelley (Skultans)
VIEDA SHELLEY (SKULTANS)
Curriculum Vitae
Academic qualifications:
1971Ph.D. in Social Anthropology (University of Wales)
1968Post-graduate Diploma in Social Anthropology (University of London)
1966B.A. Honours in Philosophy (University of London)
Appointments:
since 2012Senior Researcher at the University of Latvia agency “Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, University of Latvia”
since 2009Professor Emeritus of Social Anthropology, University of Bristol
since 2006Economic and Social Science Research Council (ESRC) Research Fellow
2003– 2009Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Bristol
May 2002Visiting professor in Department of Human Development University of Chicago
Jan-Feb 2001Visiting Professor in Department of Social Studies of Medicine, University of McGill
2000 – 2003 Reader in Medical Anthropology, Department of Sociology, University of Bristol
1999 – 2000Reader in Medical Anthropology, Division of Psychiatry, University of Bristol
1990 – 1999Senior Lecturer in Department of Psychiatry, University of Bristol
1971 – 1990Lecturer in Department of Psychiatry, University of Bristol
1968 – 1971Senior Research Assistant in Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology,University College, Swansea
Awards, honours and distinctions:
2009 – 2013 Senior Research Fellow University of Bristol
Oct 2009Chair for Welcome Medal in Medical Anthropology
Jan 2005Judge for Welcome Medal in Medical Anthropology
Sep 2004Judge for honorary D.Sc. degree of OxfordUniversity
1995Invited Member of the Medical Anthropology Committee of the Royal Anthropological Institute
Since 1994Member of editorial board ofpeer-reviewed Anthropology and Medicine
1990Appointed Judge for the Welcome Medal in Medical Anthropology
1972Elected member of the Association of Social Anthropologists
Major scientific publications:
Overall number of publications ~90(h-index: Science Citation Index – 1, SCOPUS – 5)
(a) Scientific monographies
(2011, first edition 2007) Empathy and Healing. Essays in Medical and Narrative Anthropology. Oxford and New York: Berghahn, 282 p.
(1998) The Testimony of Lives. Narrative and Memory in Post Soviet Latvia.London and New York: Routledge, 217 p.
(1979) English Madness, Ideas on Insanity 1580-1890. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 158 p.
(1974) Intimacy and Ritual. A Study of Spiritualism, Mediums and Groups.London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 106 p.
(b) Editor of collective scientific monographies
(2004) Narrative Research in Health and Illness. Ed. by: Brian Hurwitz, Trisha Greenhalgh and Vieda Skultans. Oxford: Blackwell &BMJ books, 456 p.
(2000) Anthropology and Psychological Medicine. Crossing Bridges. Ed. by: Vieda Skultans and John Cox. London: Jessica Kingsley, 305 p.
(1975) Madness and Morals, Ideas on Insanity in the Nineteenth Century. Ed. by Vieda Skultans. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 260 p.
(c) Special Issues of Journal (sole editor)
Anthropology and Medicine. Special issues ed. by: Vieda Skultans: on Culture and Medical Psychiatric Narratives. 2004, Vol. 11 (2), pp. 115-236; on Culture and Medical Psychiatric Narratives. 2003, Vol.10 (2), pp. 155-261; on Narrative Illness and the Body. 2000, Vol.7 (1), pp. 5-140.
(d) Articles in refereed journals, included in databases of peer-reviewed literature
(2007) The Appropriation of Suffering: Psychiatric Practice in the Post-Soviet Clinic. Theory Culture and Society. Vol. 24 (3), pp. 27-48. (SCOPUS, Web of Knowledge)
(2008) Imaginative Horizons: An Essay in Literary-Philosophical Anthropology. Transcultural psychiatry. Vol. 45 (3), pp. 514-515. (Web of Science)
(2006) Psychiatry through the Ethnographic Lens. International Journal of Social Psychiatry. Vol. 52 (1), pp. 73-83.(SCOPUS, Web of Knowledge)
(2005) Varieties of Deception and Distrust: Ethical Dilemmas in the Ethnography of Psychiatry. Health. Special issue on Ethics. Ed. by: Cheryl Mattingly and Catherine Riessman. Vol. 9 (4), pp. 491-512. (SCOPUS, Web of Knowledge)
(2004) Authority Dialogue and Polyphony in Psychiatric Consultations. Transcultural Psychiatry. Vol. 41 (3), pp. 337-359. (SCOPUS)
(2003) From damaged nerves to masked depression: inevitability and hope in Latvian psychiatric narratives. Social Science and Medicine. Vol. 56, pp. 2421-2431. (SCOPUS, Science Direct)
(2003) Culture and medical psychiatric narratives. Anthropology and Medicine. Vol. 10 (2), pp. 155-165. (SCOPUS)
(2000) Narrative illness and the body. Anthropology and Medicine. Vol. 7 (1), pp. 5-13. (SCOPUS)
(1999) Narratives of the Body and History: Illness in Judgement on the Soviet Past. Sociology of Health and Illness. Vol. 21 (3), pp. 310-328. (SCOPUS)
(1997) Theorizing Latvian Lives. The Quest for Identity. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. Vol. 3 (4), pp. 761-780. (SCOPUS)
(1997) The Expropriated Harvest. Narratives of Deportation and Collectivization in North WestLatvia. History Workshop Journal. Vol. 44 (1) , pp. 170-188. (SCOPUS)
(1996) Looking for a Subject. Latvian Memory and Narrative. History of the Human Sciences. Vol. 9 (4), pp. 65-80. (SCOPUS)
(1991) Women and Affliction in Maharashtra: A Hydraulic Model of Health and Illness. Culture Medicine and Psychiatry. Vol. 15 (3), pp. 321-359. (SCOPUS)
(1988) A Comparative Study of the Psychiatric Practice of a Tantrik Healer and a Hospital Outpatient Clinic in the KathmanduValley. Psychological Medicine. Vol. 18 (4) , pp. 969-981. (SCOPUS)
(1987) The Management of Mental Illness Among Maharashtrian Families: A case study of a MahanubhavHealingTemple. Man: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. Vol. 22 (4), pp. 661-679. (SCOPUS)
(e) Articles in refereed journals
(2001) Narratives of Landscape in Latvian History and Memory. Landscape Review. Vol. 7 (2), pp. 25-39.
(2001) Arguing with the KGB Archives. Archival and Narrative Memory in Post-Soviet Latvia. Ethnos. Vol. 66 (3), pp. 320-343.
(2001) Silence and the Shortcomings of Narrative. Auto/biography. Vol. 9 (1 & 2), pp. 3-10.
(2000) Structure and self in the transmission of family narratives. Auto/biography. Vol. 8 (1 & 2), pp. 81-87.
(1998) Childhood and the Escape from History. Auto/biography. Vol. 6, (1&2), pp. 5-14.
(1998) Remembering Time and Place. A Case Study in Latvian Narrative. Oral History Journal. Vol. 26, pp. 55-63.
(1997) A Historical Disorder: neurasthenia and the testimony of lives. Anthropology and Medicine. Vol. 1, pp. 7-24.
(1995) Neurasthenia and Political Resistance in Latvia. Anthropology Today. Vol. 2, pp. 14-18.
(1991) Anthropology and Psychiatry: the Uneasy Alliance. The Transcultural Psychiatry Review. Vol. 28, pp. 5-24.
(1970) The Symbolic Significance of menstruation and the menopause. Man: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. Vol. 5 (4), pp.639-651.
(e) Chapters in edited books
(2011) Locating Memory within History: Baltic Lives in their contexts. In: Baltic Biographies at Historical Crossroads. Ed. by: Aili Aarelaid-Tart, Li Bennich-Bjorkman. LondonNew York: Routledge, pp. 62-85.
(2010) History and culture in Latvian identity. In: Inheriting the 1990s: the Baltic countries. Ed. by: Baiba Metuzāle-Kangere. Uppsala :UppsalaUniversity Library, pp. 11-25.
(2007) Mutvārdu vēstures pētīšanas nozīmīgums Latvijā. No: Dzīvesstāsti: vēsture, kultūra, sabiedrība. Sast. Māra Zirnīte. Rīga : LU Filozofijas un socioloģijas institūts, 34.–50. lpp.
(2005) Narratives of Displacement and Identity. In: Adlerian Yearbook. Ed. by:B. Hurwitz, T. Greenhalgh and V. Skultans. Malden, Massachusetts, USA: Blackwell Publishing Ltd, pp. 72-94.
(2004) Narratives of Displacement and Identity. In: Narrative Research in Health and Illness. Ed. by: Brian Hurwitz, Trisha Greenhalgh and Vieda Skultans. Oxford : Blackwell &BMJ books, pp. 290-308.
(2002) Naratīvs un slimība. No: Cilvēks. Dzīve. Stāstījums. Sast. Agita Lūse. Rīga : Latvijas Antropologu biedrība, 13.–22. lpp.
(2001) Latvian auto/biographical writing. In: Encyclopaedia of Life Writing. Vol. 2. Ed. by: M. Jolly. New York : Dearbohn, p. 541.
(2001) A Historical Disorder: Neurasthenia and the Testimony of Lives. In: Colonialism and Psychiatry. Ed. by: Dinesh Bhugra and Roland Littlewood. Delhi : OxfordUniversity Press, pp. 244-264.
(2001) (co-author Roberts Ķīlis). Latvian culture. In: Encyclopaedia of Countries and their cultures. Vol. 3. Ed. by: Melvin Ember and Carol R. Ember. USA : Macmillan Reference, pp. 1259-1265.
(2001) Liktenis un biogrāfiju veidošana. No: Spogulis: Latvijas mutvārdu vēsture. Sast. Māra Zirnīte. Rīga : LU Filozofijas un socioloģijas institūts, 46.–69. lpp.
(1999) Weaving New Lives from an Old Fleece. Gender and Ethnicity in Latvia. In: Gender, Ethnicity and Social Change. Ed. by: Rohit Barot, Harriet Bradley and Steve Fenton. London: Macmillan, 1999.
(1998) Anthropology and Narrative. In: Narrative Based Medicine. Dialogue and Discourse in Clinical Practice. Ed. by: Trisha Greenhalgh and Brian Hurwittz. London : BMJ Books, pp. 225-233.
(1991) Gender and Experience of Affliction. Beliefs and Attitudes towards mental illness in Maharasthra. In: Gender Caste and Power in South Asia. Ed. by: J. Neelsen. Delhi : Manohar, pp. 139-171.
(1988) Menstrual Symbolism in South Wales. In: Blood magic: Approaches to Menstruation. Ed. by: Alma Gottlieb and Thomas Buckley. BerkeleyUniversity : University of California Press, pp. 137-160.
(1987) Affliction. In: The Encyclopedia of Religion. Vol. 1.Ed. by: Mircea Eliade. New York: MacMillan Publishing Co, pp. 51-59.
(1987) Spiritualism; Insanity: Early Theories In: The Oxford Companion to the Mind. Ed. by: Richard Gregory. New York, NY, US: OxfordUniversity Press, pp. 739-749; 371-373.
(1977) Moral Order and Mental Derangement. In: Symbols and Sentiments. Ed. by: Ioan Lewis. New York and London: Academic Press, pp. 225-247.
Research grants(Principal and sole investigator):
2006 – 2009Economic and Social Science Research Council Research fellowshipfor research on Economic and Psychiatric Transformations in Post Soviet Latvia
2007 – 2008Nuffield Foundation Small grantsfor research on Post-Communism, Neo-liberalism and the Shaping of Subjectivities in Ukraine: Power and Emotion in Psychiatric Clinics
2001 Economic and Social Science Research Council Awardfor project on Narratives and Health in Post-Soviet Latvia. A Study in Resistance and Change
2001 – 2002British Academy Joint Activities Award to plan conference and publications with BMA and anthropologists from McGillUniversity
1999British Academy Awardfor project on Archival and Narrative Memory
1993Economic and Social Science Research Council Awardfor research on Popular and Psychiatric
Conceptions of Neurasthenia
1992British Academy Award for research on Definitions of Psychiatric Illness in Latvia
1991British Council Exchange awardfor academic networking
1990Economic and Social Science Research Council Awardfor research on A Comparative Study of healers and Hospital Patients in the KathmanduValley
1988British Academy Award for research on Family and Mental Illness in Maharashtra
1987Royal Society Overseas Field Research Grant for project onTreatment Strategies in the NepalHimalayas
1984Economic and Social Science Research Council Awardfor research on A Comparative Study of Mental Illness among Hindu Women
Conference Papers:
(a) Keynote address to International Conference
(2012) What Difference Does „Being There” Make to the Production of History and Life Histories?At: International Oral History Conference, University of Latvia, Riga.
(2011) The Invention of Eastern Europe and Baltic Identity Trajectories. At: IABA Europe 2011: Trajectories of (Be)longing, TallinUniversity.
(2004) History and Culture in Latvian Identity. At: Symposium on Inheriting 1990s, University of Södertörns, Stockholm.
(2004) Memory and Identity in the Baltic States. At: Conference of the Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies, Department of History, University of Toronto.
(2004) Methodological Issues in Ethnography and Oral History. At: Department of Cultural Studies, University of Turku, Finland.
(b) Conference papers
(2011) How Difficult Lives find Home in Words. At:Joint 3rd World Congress of Latvian Scientists and the 4th Congress of Latvian Studies , Riga
(2008) Memory, Identity and Migration. At: International Oral History Conference, University of Latvia, Riga.
(2008) Gender and Mental Illness in India. At: Department of Anthropology, University of Muenster, Germany.
(2007) The Politics of Normality in the Post-Soviet Clinic. At: University of Reykjavik.
(2005) Memory and the Politics of Normality. At: ESRC seminar series, University of Aberdeen.
(2003) The Importance of Researching Oral History in Latvia.At: International Oral History Conference, University of Latvia, Riga.
(2003) Varieties of Deception and Distrust. At: Liz Stanley’s ESRC funded conference, University of Newcastle.
(2001) Discourses of Silence: the Suppression of Narrative in Latvian Psychiatric Consultations. At: Seminar series in the Social History of Medicine, University of Warwick.
(2000) Narrative Coherence in an incoherent world. At: South West Arts Council, Exeter.
(2000) Structure and Self in Family Narratives. At: Generation Conference, University of Brunel.
(2000) Between Narrative and Silence. At: ESRC conference on Gender and Health in Transition Economies, Cambridge.
(1999) Arguing with the KGB Archives. Archival and Narrative Memory in Latvia. At: Study day on Surveillance, Simulation and Audit Selves, University of Manchester.
(1999) Narrative and Truth in Psychiatric Discourse. At: Annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Culture and Psychiatry Charleston, South Carolina.
(1999) Landscape and Memory. At: Oral History Society annual meeting, University of Sussex.
Opening lecture of series on Gender and Anthropology. At: Gender and Narrative, Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford.
(1999) Silence and the shortcomings of narrative. At: Auto/biography Society meeting, London.
(1998) Or else metaphor. Isaiah Berlin, Liberty and Latvian narrative. At: British Council conference on Isaiah Berlin, Riga.
(1998) Narratives of the Body and History. At: BSA Conference, Edinburgh.
(1998) Language and Violence. At: ASA conference on Indirection, Canterbury.
(1997) A Meta Narrative of Violence: the Case of the French Group in Soviet Latvia. At: AAA Washington.
(1996) Remembering and Forgetting: the Changing Relationship of Anthropology and Psychiatry. At: Medical Anthropology Conference, University of Keele.
(1996) Mastering Time and Place In Latvian Narrative. At: Queen Mary and WestfieldCollege.
(1996) Looking for a Subject. Latvian Memory and History. At: Cultural Studies at the Crossroads, Tampere.
(1995) Gender and Narrative Experience in Latvia. At: Society for the Study of Gender and Ethnicity, Bristol.
(1995) Political repression and illness in Latvia. At: Medical History and Anthropology Conference, Barcelona.
(1990) Democratization and The Role of Universities. At: The Baltic Rim, Kaunas.
(1988) Family Structure and Experiences of Affliction. At: European Conference on South Asian Studies, Venice.
(1987) Pluralism from within: A Case Study of a HinduTemple. At: Bristol Colston Symposium on Pluralism.
(1986) Trance and the Management of Mental Illness. At: International Medical Anthropology Conference, Cambridge.
Teaching and supervising:
(a) Courses at Department of Sociology, University of Bristol, 1972-2006
Understanding Madness(SOC1 30044); Gender Relations(SOC1 20019); Narrating the Self(SOCIM2027); Human Basis of Medicine; Gender and Health; Anthropology and Medicine; Medical Sociology.
(b) Courses at Faculty of Humanities, University of Latvia, 2010-2012
Cultural and social anthropology;Power (Vara), both for MA students in Social Anthropology
(c) Courses at Faculty of Communications, Rīga Stradiņš University, 2010-2011
Social Anthropologyfor MA students in Social Anthropology
(d)Postgraduate Advising at University of Bristol
2010Margreet Peutz (PhD) Ethical Space and the Experience of Psychosis A Study of a Dutch Self-Help Group
2009(with Suruchi Thapar-Bjorkert) Tomoko Sakai (PhD) Remembering Trauma in Northern Ireland
2008(with Ruth Levitas) Noreen Kelly (PhD) Gender, Class and Depression
2006(with Suruchi Thapar-Bjorkert) Kaeko Chiba (PhD) Class and Gender in the Japanese Tea Ceremony
2005Agita Lūse (PhD) Changing Discourses of Distress and Powerlesness in Post-Soviet Latvia
2004(with Nabil Khattab) Mahmoud Keynavara (PhD) Suicide in Iranian Society
2004(with Dr. Jonathan Evans) Martin Kemp (PhD) Discourses of Agency and Distress in St. Helena and South Bristol
1987Viv Lindow (PhD) The Social Consequences of Seeing a Psychiatrist
1984Jocelyn Cornwell (PhD)Health – a Coincidence Accounts of Health and Illness in a working class community: the case of Bethnal Green
Currently supervising Maija Surska and Eva Eglaja-Kristone for a masters degree at RigaStradinaUniversity
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