Annemarie Samuels

Annemarie Samuels is Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology at Leiden University. Her ethnographic research focuses on end-of-life care, social inequality, narrative, HIV/AIDS, and global palliative care. She is currently leading the ERC-funded research project ‘Globalizing Palliative Palliative Care? A Multi-Sited Ethnographic Study of Practices, Policies and Discourses of Care at the End of Life’. With her research team, she uses ethnographic methods to investigate the globalization and cultural mediation of palliative care practices, policies and discourses, with a specific focus on India, Indonesia and Brazil.