Roy Richard Grinker

Alma mater| Grinnell College (B.A. 1983)
Harvard (M.A. 1985)
Harvard (Ph.D. 1989)
Occupation| Author, professor
Website| http://www.royrichardgrinker.com

Roy Richard Grinker (born 1961) is an American author and Professor of anthropology, international affairs, and human sciences at The George Washington University.[1]

Grinker is an authority on North and South Korea n relations.[2] As part of his PhD research, he spent two years living with the Lese farmers and the Efé pygmies in the northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo as a Fulbright scholar. He has also conducted epidemiological research on autism in Korea.[3]

Grinker is also editor of Anthropological Quarterly.[4] He has also written op-ed articles for the The New York Times and appeared as a guest on PBS NewsHour.[5]

His latest book, Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness, was included in the New York Time's editor's choice list for the week of February 4, 2021. [6][7]

## Publications

Grinker has published a number of books on multiple topics - Africa, Korea, and autism.[8]

* Houses in the Rainforest: Ethnicity and Inequality among Farmers and Foragers in Northeastern Zaire (ISBN:0520089758, University of California Press, 1994)
* (with Christopher B. Steiner) Perspectives on Africa: A Reader in Culture, History and Representation (ISBN:1557866864, Blackwell Publishers, 1997)
* Korea and its Futures: Unification and the Unfinished War (ISBN:0312224729, St. Martin's Press, 1998)
* In the Arms of Africa: The Life of Colin Turnbull (ISBN:0226309045, University of Chicago Press, 2000)
* Unstrange Minds: Remapping the World of Autism (ISBN:0465027636, Basic Books, 2007)
* Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness (ISBN:978-0-393-53164-0, Norton, 2021)

## Personal life

Grinker was born and raised in Chicago . He graduated from Choate Rosemary Hall in 1979, Grinnell College in 1983, and received his Ph.D. in Social Anthropology at Harvard University in 1989.[8][9]

His paternal grandfather, Roy R. Grinker, Sr. founded the Psychiatry Department at the University of Chicago and was the founding editor of the Archives of General Psychiatry.[8]

His book on autism, Unstrange Minds, was in part an "attempt to make sense of an intensely personal issue: his own daughter's autism".[8]

## References

1. ↑ "Roy Richard Grinker | The Department of Anthropology | The George Washington University". The George Washington University. 7 October 2015. http://anthropology.columbian.gwu.edu/roy-richard-grinker.
2. ↑ "Roy Richard Grinker | Elliott School of International Affairs | The George Washington University". http://elliott.gwu.edu/grinker.
3. ↑ "Roy Richard Grinker". http://www.colinturnbull.com/author.html.
4. ↑ "Anthropological Quarterly (AQ) Staff and Editorial Board". Anthropological Quarterly. http://aq.gwu.edu/athropological-quarterly-staff-and-editorial-board.html.
5. ↑ "Unstrange Minds Remapping the World of AUTISM". http://www.unstrange.com/index.html.
6. ↑ "10 New Books We Recommend This Week" (in en-US). The New York Times. 2021-02-04. ISSN 0362-4331. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/04/books/review/10-new-books-we-recommend-this-week.html.
7. ↑ Hughes, Virginia (2021-01-26). "Does It Make Sense to Call Anyone 'Normal'?" (in en-US). The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/26/books/review/nobodys-normal-mental-illness-roy-richard-grinker.html.
8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 Grinker, Roy Richard (2007). Unstrange Minds. New York: Basic Books. ISBN 9780465027637. https://archive.org/details/unstrangemindsre00grin.
9. ↑ "Unstrange Minds :: Bio and Photos". http://www.unstrange.com/grinkerbio.html.

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