Katie Kilroy-Marac (PhD, Columbia University) is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Toronto. She is the author of An Impossible Inheritance: Postcolonial Psychiatry and the Work of Memory in a West African Clinic (University of California Press, 2019), which was awarded the 2019 Labrecque-Lee Book Prize by the Canadian Anthropology Society/ La Société canadienne d'anthropologie (CASCA). Kilroy-Marac is currently involved in two research projects: the first, tentatively titled “The Colonial Psychiatric Imagination in Senegal and Southern France, circa 1900,” investigates the relocation of West African mental patients to a large public asylum in Marseille between 1897-1914. The second considers hoarding and domestic accumulation practices across North America.
