Seth McElwee Holmes

Investigador ICREA

Knowledge area: Antropologia Social

Contact Information
Department of Social Anthropology

sethmholmes(a)ub.edu

Academic Training

B.S. Ecology and Spanish . University of Washington . 01/09/1997 . (Diploma / Degree / Activities)

Ph.D. Medical Anthropology . UC San Francisco and Berkeley . 2006 . (Ph.D.)

M.D. School of Medicine, MSTP . UC San Francisco . 2007 . (Official Master)

Relevant publications (Journal Publications and Other publications)

Holmes, SM. (2023). Learning Language, Un/Learning Empathy in Medical School. Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry . ISSN: 0165-005X

Harvey, M., Piñones-Rivera, C., & Holmes, S. M. (2023). Structural competency, Latin American social medicine, and collective health: Exploring shared lessons through the work of Jaime Breilh. Global Public Health . ISSN: 1744-1692

Holmes, S. M., Obasi, H., Hahn, M., & Charles, D. (2025). Organizing for Racial Justice in Medicine and Medical Education: An Ethnographic Study of Medical Trainee Experiences. Social Science & Medicine . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2025.118320 . ISSN: 0277-9536

Buchbinder, L., Holmes, S. M., Newmark, R., Wong, B., & Bourgois, P. (2025). Clinical ethnographies of the politics and poetics of the US healthcare crisis. Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry, 49(1), pp. 1 - 15 . ISSN: 0165-005X

Holmes, S.M., Jenks, A. (2024). Paul Edward Farmer (1959–2022). American Anthropologist, 126(4), pp. 742 - 752 . ISSN: 0002-7294

Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States, Updated with a New Preface and Epilogue. (2023). Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States, Updated with a New Preface and Epilogue . In Holmes, SM. 2023. Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States, Updated with a New Preface and Epilogue. Vol. 27. Univ of California Press. .

Seth M. Holmes (2023). Fruits frais, corps brisés. Les ouvriers agricoles migrants aux États-Unis .

Seth M. Holmes (2023). Frutta Fresca, Corpi Spezzati: Migracioni, Razzismo e Braccianti Agricoli in America . In Holmes, SM. 2023. Frutta Fresca, Corpi Spezzati: Migracioni, Razzismo e Braccianti Agricoli in America.” Meltemi. Milan, Italy. .

Heide Castañeda and Seth M. Holmes. (2023). The Lived Experience of Stigma among Immigrant Youth . In Migration Stigma: Understanding Prejudice, Discrimination, and Exclusion, edited by Lawrence H. Yang, Maureen A. Eger, and Bruce G. Link. Strüngmann Forum Reports, volume 32, series editor, Julia R. Lupp. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. .

National Advisory Council on Migrant Health. (2023). Bi-Annual Recommendations to the Secretary of Health and Human Services for the Health and Wellbeing of Seasonal and Migrant Farmworkers .

Projects

Food Circuits: Hidden Connections between Migrants and Societies (FOODCIRCUITS) . 2023 - 2028 . Ref.101045424 . Unió Europea . PI: Seth Mcelwee Holmes

La Relación Oculta entre el Calor y la Desigualdad Social en la Agricultura Industrial . 2024 - 2026 . Ref.CNS2023-144290 . Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación . PI: Seth Mcelwee Holmes