Profile: Angela Leocata

June 11, 2018
Angela Leocata

Angela Leocata graduated in 2018 summa cum laude in Anthropology with a secondary in Global Health and Healthy Policy. She is driven by questions of subjectivity, suffering, and care as they are experienced in daily life. For her Hanzich fellowship, she interned with Sangath, a mental health research institute in Goa, India, on a program focused on mothers with maternal depression. She continued to participate with this organization for nine months, accumulating into her thesis project: “Reconsidering Care: Subjectivities, Technologies, and Caregiving among Lay-Counselors in Goa, India.” Beyond her work in Goa, Angela has conducted fieldwork in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, where she looked at pasung, or restraint, for patients with psychosis, and Kunming, China, in which she studied mother-daughter care within the Traditional Chinese Medical practice of zuò yuè zi. Next fall, she will begin her PhD in Medical Anthropology at Stanford University.