A. Jamie Saris

Dr A. Jamie Saris

Anthropology, ALL Institute

Gaeilge agus fáilte

Associate Professor

Director of Postgraduate Studies

Location Rowan House

Floor 1st Floor

Room AN1.16

Phone (01) 708 3983

Email ajamie.saris@mu.ie

Biography

Dr Saris is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology, Maynooth University. He holds advanced degrees in Social-Cultural Anthropology from the University of Chicago (MA and PhD), and he has completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Clinically-Relevant Medical Anthropology in the Department of Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School. He has been working for more than twenty years in medical and psychological anthropology in Ireland, North America, and parts of Africa, where he has researched and published on such diverse issues as the social life of mental hospitals, the experience of major mental illness, colonialism and its aftermath, structural violence and health risk, authenticity, health services research, drug use/abuse, professionalism in medical education. He led one of the first national prevalence studies on opiate use in Ireland, and he directed the only anthropological projects to have won major support from the Health Research Board of Ireland. He sits of the Editorial Boards of Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry and Reviews in Anthropology, and he was Editor of The Irish Journal of Anthropology. He was also the Co-Chair of the Combat Diseases of Poverty Consortium, funded under The Programme of Strategic Cooperation between Irish Aid and Higher Education and Research Institutes 2007-2012, and the Deputy Director of National Institute of Regional and Spatial Analysis (NIRSA), a multi-disciplinary research centre of excellence examining space and society. He is a founding member and sits of the Executive Committee of the Assisting Living and Learning (ALL) Institute.

Research

Research Interests

Medical Anthropology (including Global Health), Anthropology of Europe (particularly Ireland), Psychological Anthropology (with a focus on Major Mental Illnesses and Addiction), Anthropological History, Anthropological Analyses of Space, Anthropological Theory, Urban Anthropology and structural violence issues in European cities, Cultural and political issues around HIV treatment.

Research Projects

Title	Role	Description	Start date	End date	Amount
Making The Patient a Member of the Healthcare Team in Chronic Disease Management: An Ethnographic and Participant Action Research Analysis of Living with Epilepsy in Ireland	PI				127265
SHAPES (Smart and Healthy Ageing through People Engaging in Supportive Systems)	Principal Investigator	The Smart & Healthy Ageing through People Engaging in Supportive Systems (SHAPES) Innovation Action intends to build, pilot and deploy a large-scale, EU-standardised open platform. The integration of a broad range of technological, organisational, clinical, educational and societal solutions seeks to facilitate long-term healthy and active ageing and the maintenance of a high-quality standard of life. Mediated by technology, in-home and local community environments interact with health and care (H&C) networks contributing to the reduction of H&C costs, hospitalisations and institutional care.	01/11/2019	31/10/2024	2000000
Examining the feasibility of an on-site CD-4 counter in an HIV clinic inDar-es-Salaam, Tanzania	Principal Investigator	A short assessment of clinician receptivity for an onsite CD-4 counter in three HIV clinics in the vicinity of Dar-es-Salaam	01/09/2013	30/09/2013	2000
Combat Diseases of Poverty Consortium/Young Scienctist & Technology Exhibition Tanzania	PI		01/01/2012	31/12/2012	0
An ethnographic study of barriers to access, and maintenance of, Anti-retroviral Therapy in the Western Cape, Republic of South Africa	Principal Investigator	An ethnographic study of three clinics in the Western Cape examining social-cultural and structural barriers to accessing and continuing HAART therapy.	01/06/2008	31/12/2012	396000
Research into Good Practices in Provision of Services to Asylum Seekers	co-Principal Investigator	An ethnographic Study of Two Asylum-Seekers Direct Provision Accommodation with an eye to making recommendations to improve services	01/09/2007	31/12/2007	30000
An Ethnographic study examining the lives of drug users in and out of treatment in the Canal Communities, Dublin	Principal Investigator		01/09/2007	31/12/2008	96000
a Network Analysis and Life-History Study of Opiate Users in Ireland	co-Principal Investigator	A study estimating the absolute number of heroin-users in Dublin and investigating some of their social situation.	01/02/2002	31/03/2004	134000
Comparative ethnographic analysis on social exclusion and the experience of structural violence in two sites in Ireland	co-Principal Investigator		01/09/1997	31/07/1999	38000

Publications

Book

	Year	Publication
	2013	Fillitz, T., Saris A.J., and Streissler, A. (2013) Debating Authenticity: Anthropological Explorations of Experiences, Objects and Expertises (reissued 2014). London, UK: Berghahn Books.
	2023	Katja Siedel; David Prendergast; A. Jamie Saris (2023) From Legacies to Futures: Lifeworlds of Older Adults in Europe. Oxford: Berghahn.

Book Chapter

	Year	Publication
	2014	Dr A. Jamie Saris (2014) 'Pharmacology' In: William C. Cockerham, Robert Dingwall, and Stella Quah(Eds.). Encyclopedia of Health, Illness, Behavior, and Society. : Blackwell.
	2012	Saris A. (2012) 'Introduction: Authenticty Aujourd'hui' In: Debating Authenticity: Concepts of Modernity in Anthropological Perspective. New York : Berghahn Books.
	2011	A. Jamie Saris (2011) 'Icon and Structural Violence in a Dublin Underclass Housing Estate' In: Faces of Anthropology, 6th Edition. New York : Pearson.
	2008	Saris, AJ (2008) 'INSTITUTIONAL PERSONS AND PERSONAL INSTITUTIONS The Asylum and Marginality in Rural Ireland' In: POSTCOLONIAL DISORDERS. BERKELEY : UNIV CALIFORNIA PRESS.
	2013	Dr A. Jamie Saris (2013) 'Committed to Will: What’s at Stake for Anthropology in Addiction' In: Raikhel, Eugene and William Garriot(Eds.). Addiction Trajectories. : Duke University Press.
	2013	Dr A. Jamie Saris (2013) 'Revisiting “Culture, Genuine and Spurious”: Reflections on Icon and Politics in Ireland' In: Fillitz, Thomas and A. Jamie Saris(Eds.). Debating Authenticity: Concepts of Modernity in Anthropological Perspective. : Berghahn Books.
	2011	Saris, A. Jamie (2011) 'The Addicted Self and the Pharmaceutical Self: Ecologies of Will, Information, and Power in Junkies, Addicts, and Patients' In: Jenkins, Janis(Eds.). Pharmaceutical Self and Imaginary: Psychopharmacology in a Globalizing World. New Mexico, USA : School of Advanced Research (SAR).
	2000	A.J. Saris (2000) 'Imagining Ireland in the Great Exhibition of 1853' In: Hooper, Glen and Leon Litvack(Eds.). Ireland in the Nineteenth-Century: Regional Identity. Dublin : Four Courts Press.
	2000	Saris, A.J. and Bartley, B. (2000) 'The culture of protest in West Dublin' In: M.Peillon and E. Slater(Eds.). Memories of the Present: Ireland 1997-1998. Dublin : Institute of Public Administration.
	2000	A.J. Saris, B. Bartley et al. (2000) 'Horses and the Culture of Protest In West Dublin' In: Peillon, Michel and Eamonn Slater(Eds.). Remembering the Present: Irish Sociological Chronicals, Volume II. Dublin : Institute for Public Administration.
	1999	Bartley, B. and Saris, A.J. (1999) 'Social Exclusion and Cherry Orchard: A Hidden Side of Suburban Dublin' In: J. Killeen and A. MacLaren (eds)(Eds.). Dublin: Contemporary Trends and Issues for the 21st Century. Dublin : Geographical Society of Ireland.
	1997	A.J. Saris (1997) 'The Asylum in Ireland: A Brief Institutional History and Some Local Effects' In: Cleary, Anne and Margaret P. Tracy(Eds.). The Sociology of Health and Illness In Ireland. Dublin : UCD Press.
	1996	A.J. Saris (1996) 'Schizophrenia' In: World Mental Health: Problems and Priorities in Low-Income Countries. Oxford : Oxford University Press.

Edited Book

	Year	Publication
	2000	Mark Maguire, George E. Marcus, A. Jamie Saris, and Steve Coleman (Ed.). (2000) Dis-ease with Postmodern Anthropology. Maynooth, Ireland: Anthropology Association of Ireland,
	1997	A. Jamie Saris and Steve Coleman (Ed.). (1997) Culture, Space, and Representation. Maynooth, Ireland: Anthropology Association of Ireland,

Peer Reviewed Journal

	Year	Publication
	2021	A. Jamie Saris (2021) 'Growing Appetites and Hungry Subjects: Addicts, the Undead, and the Long Arc of Theory in Western Social Science'. Ethnologia Europaea, 21 (1):102-133. [DOI] [Full-Text]
	2021	Saris A.J. (2021) 'The dialectics of heroin and methadone in Ireland'. Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine, . [DOI] [Full-Text]
	2020	Drazkiewicz, E; Strong, T; Scheper-Hughes, N; Turpin, H; Murphy, F; Saris, AJ; Garvey, P; Mishtal, J; Wulff, H; French, B; Miller, D; Maguire, L; Mhordha, MN (2020) 'Repealing Ireland's Eighth Amendment: abortion rights and democracy today'. Social Anthropology, . [DOI] [Full-Text]
	2017	Varley, J; Power, R; Saris, J; Fitzsimons, M (2017) 'CO-DESIGNING PATIENT-CENTRED CARE USING PARTICIPATORY ACTION RESEARCH [PAR] - THE EPILEPSY PARTNERSHIP IN CARE [EPIC] PROJECT'. International Journal for Quality in Health Care, 29 :8-9. [Full-Text]
	2019	Power R; Byrne JP; Kiersey R; Varley J; Doherty CP; Lambert V; Heffernan E; Saris AJ; Fitzsimons M; (2019) 'Are patients ready for integrated person-centered care? A qualitative study of people with epilepsy in Ireland'. Epilepsy and Behavior, 102 . [DOI] [Full-Text]
	2019	Byrne JP; Power R; Kiersey R; Varley J; Doherty CP; Saris AJ; Lambert V; Fitzsimons M; (2019) 'The rhetoric and reality of integrated patient-centered care for healthcare providers: An ethnographic exploration of epilepsy care in Ireland'. Epilepsy and Behavior, 94 . [DOI] [Full-Text]
	2019	Varley J.; Kiersey R.; Power R.; Byrne J.; Doherty C.; Saris J.; Lambert V.; Fitzsimons M. (2019) 'Igniting intersectoral collaboration in chronic disease management: a participatory action research study on epilepsy care in Ireland'. Journal of Interprofessional Care, . [DOI] [Full-Text]
	2018	Power R.; Saris A. (2018) 'On patients, doctors and ethnographers: A response to Launer'. Postgraduate Medical Journal, 94 (1107):63-65. [DOI] [Full-Text]
	2015	Larkan, F; van Wyk, B; Stevens, P; Saris, AJ (2015) 'Between the Clinic and the Community: Temporality and Patterns of ART Adherence in the Western Cape Province, South Africa'. African Sociological Review, 19 :27-53. [Full-Text]
	2013	Dr A. Jamie Saris (2013) 'Studying Suicide in Modern Ireland: New Directions and Old Conundrums'. Irish Journal of Anthropology, 15 :6-7. [Full-Text]
	2008	Saris A. (2008) 'An uncertain dominion: Irish psychiatry, methadone, and the treatment of opiate abuse'. Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, 32 (2):259-277. [DOI] [Full-Text]
	2008	Saris, AJ (2008) 'CULTURE MEDICINE AND PSYCHIATRY'. Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, 32 :259-277. [DOI]
	2007	Maguire, M. and A.J. Saris (2007) 'Enshrining Vietnamese-Irish Lives'. Anthropology Today, 23 :9-12. [Full-Text]
	2007	Comiskey C.; Saris J.; Pugh J. (2007) 'A response from Comiskey et al'. Probation Journal, 54 (3):309-310. [DOI] [Full-Text]
	2000	Saris, AJ (2000) 'Culture and history in the halfway house: Ethnography, tradition, and the rural middle class in the west of Ireland'. Journal of Historical Sociology, 13 :10-36. [Full-Text]
	1999	Saris, AJ (1999) 'Producing persons and developing institutions in rural Ireland'. American Ethnologist, 26 :690-710. [Full-Text]
	1996	Saris, AJ (1996) 'Mad kings, proper houses, and an asylum in rural Ireland'. American Anthropologist, 98 . [Full-Text]
	1995	SARIS, AJ (1995) 'TELLING STORIES - LIFE-HISTORIES, ILLNESS NARRATIVES, AND INSTITUTIONAL LANDSCAPES'. Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, 19 :39-72. [Full-Text]
	1994	SARIS, AJ (1994) 'Return of the Repressed: Bringing Culture Back to Psychiatry'. Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, 18 :115-133.
	1987	Dr A. Jamie Saris (1987) 'The Adventures of the Ginseng Trade: Observations on Building World Systems'. THE CHICAGO ANTHROPOLOGY EXCHANGE, :1-19.
	2010	Dr A. Jamie Saris (2010) 'Comment on Low, Setha and Sally Engle Merry, “Engaged Anthropology: Diversity and Dilemmas.”'. Current Anthropology, 51 :S218-S219. [Full-Text]
	2010	Dr A. Jamie Saris, Fiona Larkan and Brian Van Wyk (2010) 'Of Remedies and Poisons: Recreational Use of ARVs in the Social Imagination of South African Carers'. African Sociological Review, African Sociological Review.14 :62-73. [Full-Text]
	2009	Barron C. Comiskey C., and Saris, A.J. (2009) 'Prevalence Rates and Comparisons of Obesity Levels in Ireland'. British Journal of Nursing, 18 :799-803. [Full-Text]
	2007	A.J. Saris (2007) 'Culture, Inequality, and the Bureaucratic Imagination: States and Subjects For a New Millennium'. Irish Journal of Anthropology, 10 :54-60. [Full-Text]
	2007	A.J. Saris (2007) 'Free Will and the Clockwork of Anarchy” Comment on Strauss, Claudia, “Blaming For Columbine: Conceptions of Agency In The Contemporary United States.” Current Anthropology'. Current Anthropology, 48 :807-832.
	2007	C. Comiskey, A.J. Saris, and J. Pugh (2007) 'Estimating the Prevalence of Opiate Use in Ireland and the Implications for the Criminal Justice System.” Probation Journal. 54(1):22-35'. Probation Journal, 54 :22-35. [Full-Text]
	2006	A.J. Saris (2006) 'Crashing Into the Ethnic Pentagon: Reflections on Race and Culture in the New Ireland'. Irish Journal of Anthropology, 9 :18-26. [Full-Text]
	2005	A.J. Saris (2005) 'Reconsiderando los Estereotipos: Imágenes de Irracionalidad en la Obra del Columnista del Irish Times, John Waters. [Rethinking Stereotypes: Images of Irrationality in the Work of the Irish Times Columnist, John Waters]'. REVISITA DE ANTHROPOLOGIA SOCIAL, 14 :281-309. [Full-Text]
	2004	A.J. Saris (2004) 'Once Were Positivists: A Reply to Aya'. Irish Journal of Sociology, 13 :42-45. [Full-Text]
	2004	A.J. Saris (2004) 'Prison and Empire: Archipelagoes of Confinement and the New World Order'. Irish Journal of Anthropology, VII :69-82. [Full-Text]
	2002	Saris A.J., Bartley B., Kierans C., Walsh C., McCormack P. (2002) 'Culture and the State: Institutionalising 'the Underclass' in the New Ireland'. City, 6 :167-191. [Full-Text]
	2002	A.J. Saris, and B. Bartley (2002) 'The Arts of Memory: Icon and Structural Violence in a Dublin 'Underclass' Housing Estate'. Anthropology Today, 18 :18-19. [Full-Text]
	1999	A.J. Saris (1999) 'Introduction Culture, Space and Representation'. Irish Journal of Anthropology, 4 :1-6. [Full-Text]
	1996	A.J. Saris (1996) 'Multiple Personality, Cultural Anthropology, and the Concept of Self in the Psychological and Religious Thinking of William James'. Anthropology Ireland, 5 :2-17.
	1994	A.J. Saris (1994) 'Telling Stories: Life Histories, Illness Narratives, and Institutional Landscape'. Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, 18 :115-133. [Full-Text]
	2022	Dratsiou, I.; Varella, A.; Romanopoulou, E.; Villacañas, O.; Cooper, S.; Isaris, P.; Serras, M.; Unzueta, L.; Silva, T.; Zurkuhlen, A.; MacLachlan, M.; Bamidis, P.D. (2022) 'Assistive Technologies for Supporting the Wellbeing of Older Adults'. Technologies, 10 . [Link] [DOI]
	2022	Seidel, K., Labor, M., Lombard Vance, R., McEvoy, E., Cooke, M., D’Arino, L., Desmond, D., Ferri, D., Franke, P., Gheno, I., Grigoleit, S., Guerra, B., Krukowski, A., Pešoutová, M, Pietri, I., Prendergast, D., Maguire, R., Manso, M., Saris, A.J., Sarlio-Siintola, S., Silva, T., Zarogianni, E., MacLachlan, M., SHAPES Consortium (2022) 'Implementation of a pan-European ecosystem and an interoperable platform for Smart and Healthy Ageing in Europe: An Innovation Action research protocol [version 1; peer review: awaiting peer review]'. Open Research Europe, 2 (85). [DOI] [Full-Text]
	2012	A. Jamie Saris (2012) 'Introduction: Suicide in Modern ireland'. Irish Journal of Anthropology, :3-7.

Other Journal

	Year	Publication
	1990	Dr A. Jamie Saris (1990) 'Perceptions and Problems: Cultural Assumptions about Schizophrenia' Bulletin of the Schizophrenia Association of Ireland, 14 :9-12.

Conference Contribution

	Year	Publication
	2021	Katja Seidel, David Prendergast, A Jamie Saris (2021) Lives Under Covid and the Terms Under Which We Become Old SIEF 2021, International Society for Ethnology and Folklore, Helsinki Finland, 15/06/2022-.
	2021	David Prendergast, A Jamie Saris, Katja Seidel (2021) Life Worlds of Older Individuals in Europe H2020 SHAPES Dialogue Workshop Ireland, .
	2021	Seidel, Katja, David Prendergast and Jamie Saris (2021) Reshaping the SHAPES Project in the Covid-19 era Winter Ethnography School, Maynooth Ireland, .
	2020	Saris, Jamie, Katja Seidel and David Prendergast (2020) Ageing Names and Naming Ages Annual Conference of the Anthropological Association of Ireland Dublin City University, .
	2016	A. Jamie Saris and Vanessa Carter (2016) Safe Social Media for Health Sector Staff Paper presented at HISI Annual Conference and Scientific Symposium Dublin, Ireland, .
	2009	A. Jamie Saris (2009) Committed to Will: What’s at Stake for Anthropology in Addiction Paper presented at the Workshop, Anthropologies of Addictions, McGill University Montreal, Canada, 23/04/2009-25/04/2009.
	2007	A. Jamie Saris (2007) Genuine Selves and Genuine Cultures: Icon, Politics and Self-Fashioning in Ireland Invited Lecture, at the Social Anthropology Seminar at St Andrews University Fife, Scotland, .
	2007	A. Jamie Saris (2007) The Will to Will: Subjectivity in an Age of Addiction Paper presented at the session, New Anthropologies of Addicition and Subjectivity, American Anthropological Association Washington, DC, USA, 27/11/2007-02/12/2007.
	2007	A. Jamie Saris (2007) “The Addicted Self and the Pharmaceutical Self: Ecologies of Will, Information, and Power in Junkies, Addicts, and Patients Seminar Pharmaceutical Self and Imaginary: Studies in Psychopharmacology and Globalisation, School for Advanced Research (SAR) in the Human Experience Santa Fe, NM, USA, 14/10/2007-18/10/2007.
	2006	A. Jamie Saris (2006) Theorizing Addiction: Implications for an Anthropology of Biological Psychiatry The Meanings of the Biomedical Mind: Biological Psychiatry in History and Culture Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA, 08/09/2006-10/09/2006.
	2006	A. Jamie Saris (2006) Culture at the Intersection of Theory and State Practice Paper presented at the session, To Belong: Reality and Fantasy In Modes of Public Participation, American Anthropological Association San Jose, CA, USA, 15/11/2006-19/11/2006.
	2006	A. Jamie Saris (2006) Revisiting Culture, Genuine and Spurious: Reflections on Icons and Politics in Ireland Lecture delivered to the Socrates Intensive Programme in Social Anthropology, Authenticity in Life Worlds University of Vienna, Austria, 22/08/2006-02/09/2006.
	2005	A. Jamie Saris (2005) Poverty and Structural Violence in West Dublin Invited Lecture, National Library of Ireland Dublin, Ireland, 08/11/2005-08/11/2005.
	2005	A. Jamie Saris (2005) An Uncertain Dominion: Irish Psychiatry, Methadone, and the Treatment of Opiate Abuse Paper presented at the session, Historical and Contemporary Domains of Psychiatric Practice: From Center to Periphery, American Anthropological Association Washington, DC, USA, . [Full-Text]
	2004	A. Jamie Saris and Catherine Comiskey (2004) Applying Anthropology: A Report of a Network Analysis Study, With an In-Depth Interview Component Investigating Opiate Use in Ireland on a Nationwide Basis oster Session The Bi-Annual Conference of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) Vienna, Austria, 08/09/2004-12/09/2004.
	2004	A. Jamie Saris (2004) Imagining Inequalities: States and Subjects in the New Millennium Invited Lecture at The Social Medicine Seminar Series, Department of Social Medicine, Harvard University Harvard University, 12/03/2004-.
	2003	A. Jamie Saris (2003) Culture, Poverty, and the Bureaucratic Imagination 'Engaging Imagination', at the Annual Meeting of the Anthropological Association of Ireland UCD, Dublin, Ireland, 19/06/2003-21/06/1993.
	2003	A. Jamie Saris (2003) Managing Failure During Good Times: New and Old Poverty in the Celtic Tiger Paper presented to the Conference, After the Celtic Tiger Istanbul Bilgi University, Kustepe, Istanbul, Turkey, 09/09/2003-12/09/2003.
	2002	A. Jamie Saris (2002) Between Difference and Deficit: Poor Places, Good Intentions, Angry People Plenary Lecture presented to Combat Poverty Dublin, Ireland, 09/05/2002-.
	2001	A. Jamie Saris (2001) Icon and Structural Violence in a West Dublin Neighbourhood Invited Lecture to the Anthropology Department, the School of Liberal Arts, Social Sciences, and Business (LSB) Dublin, Ireland, .
	2001	A. Jamie Saris (2001) Institutional Persons and Personal Institutions: The Asylum and Marginality in Rural Ireland Invited Lecture at The Social Medicine Seminar Series, Department of Social Medicine, Harvard University Cambridge, MA, USA, .
	2000	A. Jamie Saris (2000) Community Development Organisations and European Social Inclusion Discourses as Ethnographic Problems Paper presented at the session Where is the Field? Anthropology and the European Union: Problematics and Possibilities American Anthropological Association San Francisco, CA USA, .
	1999	A. Jamie Saris (1999) Resistance and Aesthetics in a West Dublin Neighbourhood Paper presented at the conference, Interpretive Political Sociology Allihies, County Cork, .
	1999	A. Jamie Saris (1999) Community, History, and Structural Violence: Imagining Past and Future in an Underclass Neighbourhood in 1990s Dublin Paper presented at the session History and the Politics of Desire: Nostalgic Futures Across the New Europe, American Anthropological Association Chicago, IL, USA, .
	1998	A. Jamie Saris (1998) Emergent Populations and Popular Resistance: Space, Community, and Social Exclusion in the New Ireland Paper presented at the session Urban Action and the Politics of Economic Change, American Anthropological Association Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, .
	1998	A. Jamie Saris (1998) Global and Local Issues in World Mental Health Invited Lecture to 5th-Year Medical Students, University College, Cork Cork, Ireland, .
	1998	A. Jamie Saris (1998) Health and Disease in a Multi-Cultural World Invited Lecture to the Department of Tropical Medicine, Royal College of Surgeons, Ireland Dublin, Ireland, .
	1997	A. Jamie Saris (1997) World Mental Health: Anthropological Insights into the New Morbidity Invited Lecture to the Health Services Management Programme, College of Surgeons, Ireland Dublin, Ireland, .
	1997	A. Jamie Saris (1997) “Region and Nation in the Great Irish Exhibition of 1853 “Region and Nation in the Great Irish Exhibition of 1853 QUB, Belfast, UK, .
	1997	A. Jamie Saris (1997) Culture and Commodities: Selling Ireland and Buying Irish in the Great Dublin Exhibition of 1853 Paper presented at the conference, Cultural Practices and Cultural Identity: Sociological Contributions to the Understanding of Culture, Sociological Association of Ireland Westport, Ireland, .
	1996	A. Jamie Saris (1996) To Show What We Can Be and What We've Been: The Great Irish Exhibition of 1853 Paper presented at the conference Anthropology, Colonialism, and Post-Colonialism, Anthropological Association of Ireland Maynooth, Kildare, Ireland, .
	1996	A. Jamie Saris (1996) Consuming Traditions: Producing the Nation in the Great Irish Exhibition of 1853 Paper presented at the session Representations and Self-Representations of Indigenous People: Essays in Honor of Raymond D. Fogelson, American Anthropological Association San Francisco, CA USA, .
	1996	A. Jamie Saris (1996) The Logic of Money: Producing Persons and Developing Institutions in Rural Ireland Paper read at The Maynooth Anthropology and Sociology Seminar Series Maynooth Seminar Series, .
	1995	A. Jamie Saris (1995) Debatably Irish: The Uses of Irrationality for Articulating Irishness in the Work of John Waters Paper presented at the session Articulating the State: Writers and the Nation. American Anthropological Association Washington, DC, USA, .
	1995	A. Jamie Saris (1995) Space, Person, and Production in an Irish Asylum Lecture given at the Department of Sociology, University College, Cork, Ireland Cork, Ireland, .
	1995	A. Jamie Saris (1995) Culture and History in the Half-Way House: The Politics of Tradition and the Rural Irish Middle Class Paper Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Conference of Irish Studies QUB, Belfast, UK, .
	1994	A. Jamie Saris (1994) Narrative, Illness, and Institutions Paper presented at the session, The Culture and Politics of Psychiatric Care: Language, Power and Changing Institutions, American Anthropological Association Atlanta, Georgia, USA, .
	1994	A. Jamie Saris (1994) Whiskey, Violence, and Madness: Reproducing the Irrational in Ireland Paper presented at the conference, Anthropology and Journalism, Autumn Meeting of The Anthropological Association of Ireland Dublin, Ireland, .
	1992	A. Jamie Saris (1992) Where is the Snow That Was So Bright Last Year?: Ethnography and Community in the West of Ireland Paper presented at the session Ethnography and National Tradition in Europe, American Anthropological Association San Francisco, CA USA, .
	2002	A. Jamie Saris (2002) Culture and 'the Underclass' in the New Ireland Department of Social Anthropology, The University of Manchester Manchester, England, 22/04/2002-.
	2002	A. Jamie Saris (2002) Crashing Into the Ethnic Pentagon: Reflections on Race and Culture in the New Ireland 'Race, Culture, and Interculturalism', at the Annual Meeting of the Anthropological Association of I Dublin, Ireland, 08/06/2002-09/06/2002.
	2001	A. Jamie Saris and B. Bartley (2001) Developing Culture?: Social Inclusion Discourses and Activities as Ethnographic Problems Writing the City: Urban Life in the Era of Globalisation L.S.B. Dublin, 08/01/2001-30/12/1999.
	2022	Katja Seidel, David Prendergast, A Jamie Saris (2022) You Need Something to Look Forward to European Association of Social Anthropologists 2022 Conference Belfast, North Ireland, 27/07/2022-29/07/2022.
	2016	A. Jamie Saris (2016) Caring Cultures/Cultures of Care This conference wishes to unpack the idea of care in both formal and informal settings through original theoretical and empirical studies Maynooth, Kildare, Ireland, 16/03/2016-17/03/2016.
	2015	A. Jamie Saris (2015) The Brain, The Social Brain and Addicition Pint of Science Dublin, Ireland, .

Published Report

	Year	Publication
	2012	Dr A. Jamie Saris (with Fiona Larkan, Brian Van Wyk and Field Researchers) (2012) Understanding Barriers to Access and Adherence to Antiretroviral Treatment in South Africa’s Western Cape Province. HRB, .
	2010	Saris, A.J., Dr Fiona O' Reilly, and Field Researchers (2010) A Dizzying Array of Substances: Changing Patterns of Drug Use in the Canal Communities. Final Report. 1 December. Dublin. December. Canal Communities Local Drugs Task Force, .
	1999	A.J. Saris, B. Bartley and Field Researchers (1999) Life Histories of Drug Users and Drug Use in the Community in Ballyfermot and Cherry Orchard. Bally Fermot Local Drugs Task Force, .
	2005	A.J. Saris and C. Comiskey and Field Researchers (2005) A Network Analysis Study, With An In-Depth Interview Component Investigating Opiate Use in Ireland on a Nationwide Basis. NACD, .
	1999	A.J. Saris, B. Bartley and Field Researchers (1999) Community Policing in Ballyfermot and Cherry Orchard. Ballyfermot Local Development Organization, .
	2021	Katja Seidel, A. Jamie Saris, David Predergast and John Foley (2021) Understanding Older People: Lives, Communities and Contexts. EU Horizon Programme, .

Blog

	Year	Publication
	2021	A. Jamie Saris (2021) On Function, Restoration, and Recovery. Maynooth: [Blog] [Link]
	2023	A. Jamie Saris (2023) What we can learn from the Aka people about caring for each other. [Blog] [Link]

Book Review

	Year	Publication
	2004	Dr A. Jamie Saris (2004) Review of Schizophrenia, Culture and Subjectivity: The Edge of Experience (Jenkins, Janis Hunter and Robert Barrett (eds.)). [Book Review]
	2004	Saris, AJ (2004) Schizophrenia, culture and subjectivity: The edge of experience. DORDRECHT: [Book Review]
	2001	Saris, AJ (2001) Net curtains and closed doors: Intimacy, family and public life in Dublin. ARLINGTON: [Book Review]
	2001	Saris, AJ (2001) Out of our minds: Reason and madness in the exploration of Central Africa. ARLINGTON: [Book Review]
	2001	Dr A. Jamie Saris (2001) Review of Net Curtains and Closed Doors: Intimacy, Family and Pubic Life in Dublin. (Elizabeth A. Throop). [Book Review]
	2001	Dr A. Jamie Saris (2001) Review of Out of Our Minds: Reason and Madness in the Exploration of Central Africa. (Johannes Fabian). [Book Review]
	1997	Dr A. Jamie Saris (1997) Review of Poverty in Rural Ireland: A Political Economy Perspective (Chris Curtin, Trutz Haase, and Hilary Tovey, eds.). [Book Review]
	1996	Dr A. Jamie Saris (1996) Review of Constructing Panic: The Discourse of Agoraphobia (Lisa Capps and Elinor Ochs). [Book Review]
	1994	SARIS, AJ (1994) ETHNOPSYCHIATRY - THE CULTURAL CONSTRUCTION OF PROFESSIONAL AND FOLK PSYCHIATRIES - GAINES,AD. DORDRECHT: [Book Review]
	1994	Dr A. Jamie Saris (1994) Review of Approaching the Past: Historical Anthropology Through Irish Case Studies. (Silverman and Gulliver, eds.). [Book Review]

Educational Article

	Year	Publication
	2020	A. Jamie Saris (2020) Why is Donald Trump dancing to YMCA?. [Educational Article] [Link]
	2017	A. Jamie Saris (2017) Could you survive a zombie apocalypse?. Dublin: [Educational Article]

Magazine Article

	Year	Publication
	2017	Fitzsimons, M; Doherty, C; Saris, J; Power, R; Lambert, V; Varley, J (2017) Co-designing Integrated Care Using Participatory Action Research [PAR]: The Epilepsy Partnership in Care [EPiC] Project. LONDON: [Magazine Article] [DOI] [Full-Text]

Radio Presentation

	Year	Publication
	2014	A. Jamie Saris (2014) Why Do We Que?. [Radio Presentation] [Link]
	2013	A. Jamie Saris (2013) Dr. Jamie Saris, Snr Lecturer in Anthropology at NUI Maynooth to talk about one of those stories you dont forget, a Wild Man found in Vietnam. Dublin: [Radio Presentation] [Link]
	2024	A. Jamie Saris (2024) Science Fiction and Tech. [Radio Presentation] [Link]
	2023	A. Jamie Saris (2023) The Endurance of Barbie. [Radio Presentation] [Link]
	2023	A. Jamie Saris (2023) What The Simpsons tells us about who we are. [Radio Presentation] [Link]
	2023	A. Jamie Saris (2023) The Dark Side of Thanksgiving. [Radio Presentation]

Reviews

	Year	Publication
	1994	Saris A. (1994) The return of the repressed: Bringing culture back to psychiatry - EMPTYING BEDS: The work of an emergency psychiatry unit. Lorna A. Rhodes. 1991 University of California Press ETHNOPSYCHIATRY: The cultural construction of professional and folk psychiatries. Atwood D. Gaines, ed. 1992 State University of New York Press. [Reviews] [DOI] [Full-Text]

Technical Publication

	Year	Publication
	2008	Dr A. Jamie Saris, Mark Maguire and Field Researchers (2008) Good Practices in the Provision of Services to Asylum Seekers. [Technical Publication]
	1998	A.J. Saris, B. Bartley and Field Researchers (1998) Social Exclusion and Local Responses: An Ethnographic Study on Two Communities in Ireland. [Technical Publication]
	2008	Maguire, M., A. Jamie Saris, Eleanor Shaw, Trish Griffin (2008) Good Practice in the Provision of Services to Asylum Seekers. [Technical Publication]

Discussion

	Year	Publication
	2019	A. Jamie Saris, Chris Gowen and Nicola Fox Hamilton (2019) Are We Getting Close: Technology and Intimacy in the 21stC. [Discussion]

Note

	Year	Publication
	2020	Drążkiewicz E.; Strong T.; Scheper-Hughes N.; Turpin H.; Saris A.J.; Mishtal J.; Wulff H.; French B.; Garvey P.; Miller D.; Murphy F.; Maguire L.; Mhórdha M.N. (2020) Repealing Ireland's Eighth Amendment: abortion rights and democracy today. [Note] [DOI] [Full-Text]

Online Multimedia

	Year	Publication
	2013	A. Jamie Saris (2013) Addiction, Suffering and Pleasure. [Online Multimedia]

Other

	Year	Publication
	2004	Dr A. Jamie Saris (2004) Foreword to Differently Irish: A cultural History Exploring 25 Years of Vietnamese-Irish Identity, Maguire, Mark. [Other]

Published Interview

	Year	Publication
	2013	Maria Cecilia Dedios and Ekaterina Anderson (2013) Top of the heap: Jamie Saris and Elizabeth Wilson. [Published Interview] [Link]

Invited Lectures

	Year	Publication
	2023	A. Jamie Saris (2023) Addicts, the Undead, and Social Theory. Wroclaw, Poland: [Invited Lectures]

Professional

Professional Associations

Description	Function	From / To
Society for Cultural Anthropology	*	30/12/1899 - 30/12/1899
American Ethnological Society	Member	30/12/1996 - 30/12/2019
Society for the Anthropology of Europe	Member	30/12/1990 - 30/12/2010
Anthropological Association of Ireland	Member, Executice Committee, Editor-in-Chief of Irish Journal of Anthropology	30/12/1992 - 30/12/2021
American Ethnological Society	Member	30/12/1994 - 30/12/2020
Society for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Ireland	member	30/12/1994 - 30/12/2002
Society for Urban and Transnational Anthropology	Member	30/12/1996 - 30/12/2008
Society for Medical Anthropology	Member	30/12/1996 - 30/12/2019
Anthropological Association of Ireland	Member	30/09/1994 -

Honors and Awards

Date	Title	Awarding Body
01/09/2013	Senior Research Fellowship at Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften/Kunstuniversität Linz	Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften/Kunstuniversität Linz
01/01/1991	Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
01/01/1988	Fellowship in the International Doctoral Research Program fo
01/01/1992	NIMH Post-Doctorate Training Fellowship

Committees

Committee	Function	From / To
Irish Journal of Anthropology	Editor-in-Chief	31/03/1996 - 30/03/2008
International Board of Consulting Editors Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry	Advice to Editor, Article Reviews	01/09/1998 -
"Member, Executive Committee Anthropological Association of Ireland"		-
Operational CommitteeNational Institute of Regional and Spatial Analysis"	Committe Member	10/10/2001 - 10/10/2007
"Co-OrganiserThe Maynooth Anthropology and Sociology Seminar Series"	Organizing Guest Speakers for Departmenbt of Anthropology	01/10/1997 - 01/10/2006
External Examiner on Ph.D. Thesis, "We go There and They Come Here: Migrancy and Dislocation Through the Looking Glass of the Tourist Gaze", Cliona O'Carroll, Dept of Folklore and Ethnology/Béaloideas, University College Cork		-
FSS Ethics Committee	Committee Member	01/10/2005 - 30/09/2008
Anthropology Association of Ireland	Editor in Chief of Anthropology Ireland	01/10/1999 - 30/09/2007
Anthropology Association of Ireland	Co-Editor in Chief of Anthropology Ireland	01/10/1996 - 30/10/1999
Faculty Promotion Review Panel – Social Sciences	Committee Member	01/10/2009 - 30/09/2010
Culture Medicine and Psychiatry	Assitant Editor	01/03/1994 - 01/10/1997
National Institute of Regional and Spatial Analysis"	Deputy Director	01/05/2002 - 01/10/2006
Management Team for the B.A. in Local and Community Studie	CMT member	01/10/2013 -
Anthropology Association of Ireland	Executive Committee Member	01/10/1996 - 30/09/2004
FSS Ethics Committee	Committee Member	01/10/2015 -
Exploratory Committee for a Graduate School in the Faculty of Social Sciences	Committee Member	01/10/2006 - 30/09/2007
Executic Committee of the Anthropology Association of Ireland	Chair/President	12/12/2022 -
Management Team for the B.A. in Local and Community Studie	CMT member	01/10/1996 - 30/09/2008
National Working Group -- identifying PPI Resources	Member	01/09/2021 -
Postgraduate Coordinator Department of Anthropology	Manage the PG programme in Anthropology	01/10/1999 - 30/09/2010
Executive Committee, Assisting Living and Learning Insitute	Member	10/10/2017 -

Employment

Employer	Position	From / To
Harvard University.	Tutor in Special Concentrations Programme	- 01/08/1994
The University of Chicago.	Lecturer (Anthropology 212, now Frederick Starr Lectureship)	- 01/01/1992
NUI Maynooth	Senior Lecturer in Anthropology	-
National Institute of Regional and Spatial Analysis.	Deputy Director	-
National Institute of Regional and Spatial Analysis.	Research Associate	-
NUI Maynooth.	Visting Lecturer	- 01/01/1990
NUI Maynooth	Lecturer in Anthropology	- 01/09/2000

Education

	Start date	Institution	Qualification	Subject
		University of Chicago	M.A.
		University of Chicago	B.A.
		University of Chicago	Ph.D.

Languages

	Language	Reading	Writing	Speaking
	French	Functional	Basic	Basic

Teaching

Teaching Interests

I am prepared to teach courses at any level in the specializations mentioned above. I am also prepared to teach courses in anthropological research and writing. I have taught anthropology courses at all levels from Introduction to Anthropology to advanced doctoral courses, and I am a prolific trainer of PhDs, averaging, as the Primary Advisor, two completed doctorates per three years since 2000. I have also mentored postdoctoral researchers as part of larger research teams in both Ireland and Africa. Finally, I have extensive experience in presenting anthropological concepts to non-anthropologists, whether on outreach courses to non-traditional students, to Faculty of Science students, or to medical students in both Europe and North America.

Recent Students

Graduation date	Name	Degree
2020	Nasrin Khandoker	PhD
2009	Dr Joseph Butler	PhD
2007	Dr Fiona Larkan	PhD
2005	Dr James Quin	PhD
2005	Dr Mark Maguire	PhD
2014	Dr Katja Seidel	PhD
2001	Dr Denise Meagher	PhD
2012	Dr Emma Heffernan	PhD
2011	Dr Carol Barron	PhD
2011	Dr David Murphy	PhD
2009	Dr Fiona Murphy	PhD
2003	Dr Michelle Cotter	PhD
2003	Dr Cormac Sheehan	PhD
2014	Dr Felicia Garcia	PhD