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João Biehl
Brazilian anthropologist and professor
João Guilherme Biehl is a Brazilian medical anthropologist known for his innovative studies of global health, poverty, and suffering.[1] He is currently the Susan Dod Brown Professor of Anthropology, Chair of the Department of Anthropology, and Director of the Brazil LAB at Princeton University.[2]
Biehl's scholarship has earned widespread acclaim, as well as several of the anthropology's most prestigious awards.
These include the Margaret Mead Award,[1]Diana Forsythe Prize,[3] and two Rudolf Virchow Awards.[4][unreliable source?] Biehl was also a 2008 Guggenheim Fellow.[5]
Early life and education
Biehl grew up in the favelas outside of the town of Novo Hamburgo in Southern Brazil after migrating from the colonial interior with his parents and sister at the age of 4.
He showed an early interest in education, entering the first grade and completing gra