Associate Professor
Katherine A. Mason is a medical anthropologist whose research addresses issues in population health, bioethics, mental health, and global health. Her first book, Infectious Change: Reinventing Chinese Public Health after an Epidemic was published by Stanford Press in 2016. Her work has appeared in American Ethnologist, American Anthropologist, Medical Anthropology Quarterly, Social Science and Medicine, and the Journal of Infectious Diseases, among other venues. Mason is co-founder of the Pandemic Journaling Project (PJP), and co-leads with fellow Annenberg affiliate Andrea Flores two extramurally funded research studies that build on the PJP platform, including the First-Generation College Students and Parents Study. For this study she has worked with more than a dozen Brown undergraduates to study the long-term effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on first-gen college students and their families. She is also currently working on a book on perinatal mood and anxiety disorders.
