Nana Osei Quarshie

Nana Osei Quarshie is Assistant Professor in the Program in the History of Science and Medicine at Yale University, where he is also affiliated with the Department of Anthropology and the Yale School of Medicine. An anthropologist and historian by training, Quarshie examines the relationship among mental healing, political expulsions, immigration, and urban belonging in West Africa since the seventeenth century. His research has been funded by the Chateaubriand Fellowship, the Social Science Research Council’s International Dissertation Research Fellowship, the University of Michigan, and Yale University. Among other venues, Quarshie’s writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Comparative Studies in Society and History, Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Politique Africaine, Psychopathologie Africaine and Somatosphere. He is currently revising his first monograph, An African Pharmakon: Psychiatry and the Mind Politic of Modern Ghana.

 

• 2024 Jack Goody Award
• 2024 James L. Clifford Prize (Honorable Mention)
• Cited in the New York Times

• 2023 Walter D. Love Prize in British History from the North American Conference on British Studies (NACBS)
• 2023 Forum for History of Human Science (FHHS) Article Prize

 

 

2021: “Mass Expulsion as Internal Exclusion: Police Raids and the Imprisonment of West African Immigrants in Ghana, 1969 – 1974” in Confinement, Punishment, and Prisons in Africa. Eds. Julia Hornberger, Frederic le Marcis and Marie Morelle. London, UK and New York, NY: Routledge Press, p. 40 – 54. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003009627-5