Casey Golomski
Casey Golomski is a cultural and medical anthropologist and Africanist with strong interests in the humanities, exploring religion, gender and medicine across the human life course and cross-culturally. Funded by three Fulbright Fellowships and the Wenner Gren, Reed, and Mellon Foundations, his research and creative writing has been published in journals like Medical Anthropology, Material Religion, Anthropology and Humanism, Africa, and American Ethnologist, and the book Funeral Culture: AIDS, Work and Cultural Change in an African Kingdom (Indiana University Press). From the American Anthropological Association, he was the recipient of the 2010 Carrie Hunter Tate Award and the 2019 Society for Humanistic Anthropology First Poetry Prize. As an invited speaker, he has given talks at Emory, Yale, Tufts, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, Wisconsin, Michigan State, and the Universities of Johannesburg, KwaZulu-Natal, and the Witwatersrand in South Africa. He has consulted for UNICEF; is an associate editor for the African Journal of AIDS Research; and is a board member for the Northeastern Workshops on Southern Africa (NEWSA) and Seacoast African American Cultural Center (SAACC). He is happy to advise and consult for interested students and organizations.
Research Interests
- African Languages/Literature
- Aging and life course
- Cultural/Social Anthropology
- Death and Dying, Behavioral/Social
- Gender studies
- Global Health
- Religious Studies
Courses Taught
- ANTH 411: Global Perspectives:Intro Anth
- ANTH 500: Peoples & Cultures/Sub Saharan
- ANTH 525: The Body: Fat, Fitness & Form
- ANTH 610: Medical Anth:Illness & Healing
- ANTH 680: Africana Religions
- ANTH 685: Gendr, Sex, HIV Sub-Sahara Afr
- ANTH 695: Global Population & Health
- ANTH 700: Internship
- ANTH 796: Reading and Research
Selected Artistic Activities & Publications
Golomski, C. (2020). Greying mutuality: race and joking relations in a South African nursing home. AFRICA, 90(2), 273-292. doi:10.1017/S0001972019001049
Golomski, C., & Dlamini, G. S. (2020). Beautiful Blessings: LGBTIQA Christians’ Reproductive and Parenting Aspirations.. In N. Mkhwanazi, & L. Manderson (Eds.), Connected Lives: Households, Families, Health, and Care in Contemporary South Africa. (pp. 38-44). Cape Town: Human Sciences Research Council Press. Retrieved from https://www.hsrcpress.ac.za/books/connected-lives
Golomski, C. (2019). Interrogating traditionalism: gender and Swazi Culture in HIV/AIDS policy. “50 Years of Swazi Independence” issue, V. Laterza, N.C. Dlamini, and N. Mkhwanazi, eds. Journal of Contemporary African Studies, 1-16. doi:10.1080/02589001.2019.1701184
Golomski, C. (2019) Thumb War. Anthropology and Humanism 44(2): 194-197. (2019). Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1111/anhu.12249
Golomski, C. (2018). Funeral Culture: AIDS, Work, and Cultural Change in an African Kingdom. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. Retrieved from http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/product_info.php?products_id=809261
Golomski, C. (2018). Elder Care and Private Health Insurance in South Africa: The Pathos of Race-Class. Medical Anthropology, 37(4), 311-326. doi:10.1080/01459740.2017.1417279
Golomski, C. (2018). Work of a Nation: Christian Funerary Ecumenism and Institutional Disruption in Swaziland. Journal of Southern African Studies, 44(2), 299-314. doi:10.1080/03057070.2018.1421443
Golomski, C., & Nyawo, S. (2017). Christians’ cut: popular religion and the global health campaign for medical male circumcision in Swaziland. Culture, Health & Sexuality, 19(8), 844-858. doi:10.1080/13691058.2016.1267409
Golomski, C. (2016). Risk, Mistake, and Generational Contest in Bodily Rituals of Swazi Jerikho Zionism. Journal of Contemporary Religion, 31(3), 351-364. doi:10.1080/13537903.2016.1206247
Golomski, C. (2016). Religion and Migration: Cases for a Global Material Ethics. African Studies, 75(3), 449-462. doi:10.1080/00020184.2016.1193379
Golomski, C. (2016). Outliving love: marital estrangement in an African insurance market. Social Dynamics, 42(2), 304-320. doi:10.1080/02533952.2016.1197510
Golomski, C. (2015). Urban cemeteries in Swaziland: materialising dignity. Anthropology Southern Africa, 38(3-4), 360-371. doi:10.1080/23323256.2015.1087322
Golomski, C. (2015). Wearing Memories: Clothing and the Global Lives of Mourning in Swaziland. Material Religion, 11(3), 303-327. doi:10.1080/17432200.2015.1082719
GOLOMSKI, C. (2015). Compassion technology: Life insurance and the remaking of kinship in Swaziland's age of HIV. American Ethnologist, 42(1), 81-96. doi:10.1111/amet.12117
Golomski, C. (2014). Generational inversions: ‘working’ for social reproduction amid HIV in Swaziland. African Journal of AIDS Research, 13(4), 351-359. doi:10.2989/16085906.2014.961942