AMHIG is excited to announce the winner of our annual graduate student paper prize. Congratulations to Gerpha Gerlin for her excellent paper, “‘There’s Got to be More to Life than Feeling Like This’: Navigating Mental Illness Recovery Alone, Together, and in-Between.” We look forward to celebrating her intellectual achievements at our annual membership meeting on Monday, October 18th! Attached below is a short bio about Gerpha, along with her paper abstract.
Bio: Gerpha Gerlin is a medical anthropology PhD/MPH student & Science in Human Culture Cluster Fellow at Northwestern University. As of fall 2021, she has begun volunteering with the University’s Prison Education Program as a co-director of student wellness. Gerpha works on issues related to psychiatric dis-ease and disablement, identity development, knowledge-production economies, and implementation science. Her dissertation will work at the interface of behavioral health and criminal justice systems, exploring treatment of and for people deemed at a pathologized risk of “committing” suicide. Her multi-sited project will critically engage aspects and consequences of custodial