Seth Dornisch
Name:
Seth Dornisch
Contact:
sdornisch@umass.eduResearch Interests:
Anthropology of well-being, emotions, and aging; medical anthropology, death and dying; anthropology of religion. Perceptions and metrics of well-being across the lifespan; variables influencing choice of space/place at end-of-life; physical, cognitive-linguistic, and social functions as they relate to determinations of quality of life and capacity to choose.Biography:
Seth Dornisch is an Anthropology Ph.D. student at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He holds bachelor's degrees in psychology and anthropology (2013), and a master's degree in communication sciences and disorders (2016) from the University of Florida. He is a nationally certified and licensed Speech-Language Pathologist specializing in gerontology. His anthropology research is informed by clinical experience working with people in late-life who have disorders of communication, cognition, and swallowing. By taking a four-field anthropological approach to questions of human well-being, Seth explores the cultural, linguistic, material, and biological variables that influence well-being through late-life transitions.
Major:
Ph.D. Student Department of Anthropology