Global Engagement

Cecilia Van Hollen is a socio-cultural and medical anthropologist specializing in South Asia, with a focus on the cultural dimensions of health, medicine, and public health policy in India. She is a teaching professor in the Asian Studies Program at Georgetown University’s Walsh School of Foreign Service and also teaches in the Science, Technology and International Affairs program. Her ethnographic research explores intersections of gender, class, and caste in Tamil Nadu through studies on maternal health, HIV/AIDS, and reproductive cancer care. Van Hollen is the author of three ethnographic books and co-editor of A Companion to the Anthropology of Reproductive Medicine and Technology. Her work has been widely published in top journals and edited volumes. She has received fellowships from the Fulbright Foundation, the American Institute of Indian Studies, and the Woodrow Wilson Center, among others. Prior to Georgetown, she held academic roles at Yale-NUS College, Syracuse University, and the University of Notre Dame.