Seth Dornisch

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.

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.