Thomas Csordas is Distinguished Professor in the Department of Anthropology, holds the Dr. James Y. Chan Presidential Chair in Global Health, is founding director of the Global Health program, and director of the Institute for Global Health at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). His research interests include medical and psychological anthropology, global health, anthropological theory, comparative religion, cultural phenomenology and embodiment, globalization and social change, and language and culture. He has conducted ethnography with Charismatic Catholics, Navajo Indians, adolescent psychiatric patients, Catholic exorcists, and refugee and asylum seeker health service providers. Some of the critical issues in her studies include therapeutic processes in religious healing, ritual language and creativity, sensory imagery, self-transformation, techniques of the body, and lived experience.