Jason Bryan Silverstein, PhD

I am a writer and anthropologist investigating how political and economic decisions determine who lives and who dies in the United States. Through reporting, ethnography, and historical analysis, my work examines the institutional choices that produce deadly disparities across the country.

I have written more than one hundred reported essays and commentaries on the everyday systems that shape life chances in the United States, including racial residential segregation, the war on drugs, structural violence, and the politics of health care. My work has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, GQ, Esquire, The New Republic, The Guardian, Slate, and The Nation, among many others.

I am Lecturer and founding Co-Director of the Master of Science in Media, Medicine, and Health program at Harvard Medical School. I serve as the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine’s inaugural Writer-in-Residence, selected by Dr. Paul Farmer. I also teach "Reimagining Global Health" at Harvard College and supervise senior theses in the History of Science. I hold an AM and PhD in Anthropology from Harvard; a MTS in Religion, Ethics, and Politics from Harvard Divinity School; and a BA in Philosophy from Penn State.

I am represented by Jesseca Salky at Salky Literary Management.

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