Narratives of Wellbeing DE

Tarryn Phillips  is a medical anthropologist and Associate Professor of Crime, Justice and Legal Studies in the Department of Social Inquiry at La Trobe University, Australia. Conducting ethnographic research alongside Fijian communities for over a decade, she has published widely on issues of diabetes, health inequality, poverty and nutrition. Her most recent book is an ethnographic novel, with Edward Narain, called  Sugar  (University of Toronto Press, 2024).

Natalie Araújo  is Lecturer in Anthropology and Development Studies in the Department of Social Inquiry at La Trobe University, Australia. Her work focuses on intersecting issues of structural violence, trauma, agency, and gender in Latin America, the Latin American diaspora, and the Pacific, and within Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) communities in Australia.

Timothy Willem Jones  is Associate Professor of History in the Department of Archaeology and History at La Trobe University, Australia. His research focuses on the changing relationship between religion, sexuality, gender and wellbeing in modernity. His publications include the monograph Sexual Politics in the Church of England, 1857-1957, and co-edited volumes Material Religion in Modern Britain, and Love and Romance in Modern Britain, 1917-1970.

John Taylor  (Jack) is Associate Professor and Anthropology Program Convenor in the Department of Social Inquiry at La Trobe University, Australia. His publications on tourism include the book  Consuming Identity: modernity and tourism in New Zealand  and the co-edited book  Touring Pacific Cultures .