Johanna Richlin
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Affect, emotion and subjectivity; Religion and society; Migration; Medical and psychological anthropology; U.S. and Brazil.
Dr. Richlin specializes in the anthropology of religion and psychological and medical anthropology, with expertise in evangelical Christianity in the U.S. and Brazil, U.S. migration, studies of affect and emotion, and gender, health and society.
Her first research project explored the impact of U.S. migration experience on the varied religious beliefs, choices, and sentiments of Brazilian migrants in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan region. From this body of research, she published a research article in Current Anthropology, entitled “” (2019), and completed her first book, (Princeton University Press, 2022). Richlin’s research was reviewed in The Economist (“” (2019)) and featured on (2022).
Richlin’s current research investigates U.S. healthcare experience and vaccine beliefs, behaviors, and solidarities among diverse demographics. She has published two articles related to this project, including,” (Medical Anthropology Quarterly2023)Ի(Journal of the Anthropology of North America 2025).Richlin’sresearch was also the subject of aforThe Conversationand anon Slate’spodcast“Hear Me Out.”
Areas of Expertise
Medical and Psychological Anthropology
Social/Cultural Anthropology
Education
M.A. Stanford University
M.T.S. Harvard Divinity School
B.A. Wesleyan University
