Roy Richard Grinker Biography

Dr. Roy Richard Grinker is a cultural anthropologist who studies mental illness, stigma, autism, disability, and workplace diversity, equality, and inclusion. He's also the director of the George Washington University Institute for Ethnographic Research and the editor-in-chief of Anthropological Quarterly. Dr. Grinker's research has taken him to the United States, South Korea, India, South Africa, Namibia, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. He is the author of Unstrange Minds: Remapping the World of Autism, as well as Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness, which won an award. Nobody's Normal, a New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice pick, chronicles the history of psychiatry, as well as the marginalization and maltreatment of persons with significant mental disorders. Nobodies Normal contends that stigma is a social process that can be described via cultural history, a process that began the minute we identified mental illness, that we learn from our communities, and that we have the capacity to alter. Nobody's Normal, according to the New York Times Book Review, "sings with Grinker's sympathetic and powerful voice."

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