Philippe Bourgois
Philippe Bourgois is professor of anthropology and director of the Center for Social Medicine and Humanities in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California at Los Angeles. He was the founding chair of the Department of Anthropology, History and Social Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (1998–2003) and was the Richard Perry University Professor at the University of Pennsylvania (2007–2016).
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- Harvard UniversityStanford UniversityHarvard CollegeÉcole Normale Supérieure
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- 🏆 Guggenheim Fellowship
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1956
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