Cultural & Medical Anthropologist
Selim Gökçe Atıcı
PhD, Stanford Anthropology ’24
I am a sociocultural and medical anthropologist of contemporary Japan. My research concerns psychiatry, addiction, criminal justice, and migration.
Research ↗About
Anthropology of psychiatry, law, and social life in Japan.
Selim Gökçe Atıcı received his PhD in Anthropology from Stanford University in 2024 and was subsequently a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Tokyo College, University of Tokyo. He is currently a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Sociology and Global Japan Lab at Princeton University.
His work studies psychiatric therapeutics through personhood and evidence, including the criminalization of mental illness, court process, emotions and affect, citizenship, gender and sexuality, and knowledge produced through lived experience.
Education & appointments
Stanford · Tokyo · Princeton
Princeton University
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Sociology and Global Japan Lab · 2026–27
University of Tokyo
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Tokyo College, Institutes for Advanced Studies · 2024–26
Stanford University
PhD, Social and Cultural Anthropology · 2024
Boğaziçi University
MA, Sociology · 2016
BS, Economics · BA, Sociology · 2014
Book project
Conducting Addiction
Conducting Addiction: Psychiatry, Criminalization, and Coproduction in Japan is an ethnography of addiction psychiatry, criminal justice, and peer recovery in Japan.
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