Martha Lincoln is an Associate Professor of Cultural and Medical Anthropology.
Her research addresses the cultural politics of public health, biopolitics, and the effects of political and economic change on health systems and health outcomes. This work addresses multiple aspects of science, technology, and health intersections.
Currently, Prof. Lincoln is studying how crowdfunding by cancer patients and survivors reshapes the experience of illness; her past work has addressed the political and social significance of infectious disease and its treatment in Vietnam.
She has been a frequent commentator on the experience of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, and her opinion essays have appeared in diverse national and international venues.
Lincoln, M. (2024). First as Farce, Twice as Tragedy: US Exceptionalism in COVID-19 Response. In Evaluating a Pandemic (pp. 67-81).
Edington, C., & Lincoln, M. (2023). Biopolitical Vietnam. Journal of Vietnamese Studies, 18(1-2), 1-14.
Lincoln, M. (2023). Biopower in Transition: The Politics of Poverty in Vietnam. Journal of Vietnamese Studies, 18(1-2), 104-142.
Lincoln, M. (2023). The Colonial Life of Pharmaceuticals: Medicines and Modernity in Vietnam. By Laurence Monnais. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019. 290 pp. Illustrations. Paperback, $32.99. ISBN: 978-1-108-46653-0. Business History Review, 97(1), 155-158.
Lincoln, M. (2023). KECK, Frédéric. 2020. Avian Reservoirs: Virus Hunters and Birdwatchers in Chinese Sentinel Posts. Durham: Duke University Press. China Perspectives, 77-78.
Lincoln, M. (2021). Trais Pearson, Sovereign Necropolis: The Politics of Death in Semi-Colonial Siam. Ithaca, New York. Cornell University Press. Pp. 233.
Sosin, A. N., Choo, E., & Lincoln, M. (2023). The COVID public health emergency is ending: it now joins the ordinary emergency that is American health. BMJ, 381.
Alexander, W. L., Wells, E. C., Lincoln, M., Davis, B. Y., & Little, P. C. (2021). Environmental justice ethnography in the classroom: Teaching activism, inspiring involvement. Human Organization, 80(1), 37-48.
Lincoln, M. (2021). Necrosecurity, immunosupremacy, and survivorship in the political imagination of COVID-19. Open Anthropological Research, 1(1), 46-59.
Lincoln, M. (2021). Global health is dead; long live global health! Critiques of the field and its future. BMJ Global Health, 6(7), e006648.
Lincoln, M. (2021). Epidemic Politics in Contemporary Vietnam: Public Health and the State. Bloomsbury Publishing.
Lincoln, M. (2020). Study the role of hubris in nations' COVID-19 response. Nature, 585(7825), 325-326.
Lincoln, M. (2018). Post navigation. Politics.
Lincoln, M. (2016). Alcohol and drinking cultures in Vietnam: a review. Drug and alcohol dependence, 159, 1-8.
Lincoln, M. (2015). Haunting images. Medicine Anthropology Theory, 2(2).
Lincoln, M. L. (2014). Tainted commons, public health: The politico–moral significance of cholera in Vietnam. Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 28(3), 342-361.
Lincoln, M. (2014). Medical stratification in Vietnam. Medicine Anthropology Theory, 1(1).
Lincoln, M., & Lincoln, B. (2015). Toward a critical hauntology: bare afterlife and the ghosts of Ba Chúc. Comparative Studies in Society and History, 57(1), 191-220.
Hsu, H. L., & Lincoln, M. (2009). Health media & global inequalities. Daedalus, 138(2), 20-30.
Lincoln, Martha. "Why did they kill? Cambodia in the shadow of genocide." American Anthropologist 110, no. 1 (2008): 113.
Lincoln, M. (2008). Report from the field: street vendors and the informal sector in Hanoi. Dialectical anthropology, 32, 261-265.
Lincoln, M. (2007). Black Hole, Gulag, Country Club: A Map of Guantánamo Bay. Socialism and Democracy, 21(2), 117-122.