Professor Krisjon Olson, Department of Pediatrics, Medical College of Wisconsin
Title: Anthropology on the Front Lines: A Cultural History of Life in the Balance

Professor Olson is a cultural anthropologist (PhD UC-Berkeley), currently directing research in the Dept of Pediatrics at the Medical College of Wisconsin. She is also an honorary fellow in the Dept of Anthropology at UWM. She has researched the ethics of humanitarianism in Guatemala; the social impacts of medical technology, especially pediatric life support; migrant health; and the health consequences of state violence. Her publications include “After the Peace: The Contagion of Violence at the Margins of the Guatemalan State” Anthropological Quarterly November 2013; “Children in the Grey Space between War and Peace”, in Children and Youth on the Frontline, edited by J. de Berry and J. Boyden, pp145-166. Oxford: Berghahn Press; and “Living with Torturers: The Rios Montt Trial and the Ixil Case”, The Journal of Genocide Research Fall 2016.