Adrie S. Kusserow

Adrie Kusserow is a psychological anthropologist and poet/creative nonfiction writer who has worked with refugees for over two decades in South Sudan, Uganda, northern India, Nepal and the United States. She received her Master's in Comparative Religion from Harvard Divinity School and her PhD in Anthropology from Harvard University. Along with the Lost Boys of Sudan resettled in Vermont, she helped found the NGO Africa Education and Leadership Initiative: Bridging Gender Gaps Through Education. She has published an ethnography American Individualisms (Culture, Mind and Society Series, Palgrave MacMillan), two books of ethnographic poetry (BOA Editions, Ltd) and her most recent book The Trauma Mantras: An Ethnographic Memoir in Prose Poems (Duke University Press, 2024) She lives in Underhill, Vermont on the land she grew up on and teaches classes on Anthropology of Mental Health, Anthropology of Mindfulness/Yoga, Refugee Health, Anthropology of Emotion and Addiction at St. Michael's College where she is Chair of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology.