Jamie Schafroth

PhD Student
a woman with medium length black hair smiling with a concrete wall behind her
jschafroth@arizona.edu

About Jamie Schafroth

Jamie is a PhD student in sociocultural anthropology, concentrating in medical anthropology and gender and women’s studies. She graduated from Grinnell College in 2017 with a B.A. in psychology and neuroscience. She then completed a research fellowship at the NIH in neuropsychology. In 2022, she earned an M.S. in Medical Anthropology from Boston University, where she studied the lived experiences of receiving and providing healthcare for sexual and intimate partner violence in the contexts of forensic nursing and community-based advocacy. She combines critical medical feminist anthropology, abolition feminisms, critical race theories, and science and technology studies to investigate the medical and carceral interventions and therapeutic practices that attempt to address sexual violence in the US. Her current research focuses on how the conjoined efforts of the medical and carceral system intervene on the lives and bodies of people who are convicted of sexual offenses and/or who are diagnosed with psychosexual disorders, engaging with the question of how does one configure themselves or are made to be “non-violent”? Outside of her research, she enjoys hiking and camping, spending time with friends, and cuddling with her cat. 

 

Awards

2022-2023 University of Arizona University Fellow

Publications

Dieudonne, K., Ibarra, D., Frinton, D., Kenyon, S., Sabhlok, P., Schafroth, J., and M. A. Carney 
(Under review). “‘Like Writing An-End-Of-Term Paper, Together’: Reflections on Mobilizing a Collective Pedagogy.”
Basile, BM, Costa, VD., Schafroth, JL., Karaskiewicz, CL., Lucas, DR, & Murray, EA. (2023). 
The amygdala is not necessary for the familiarity aspect of recognition memory. Nature communications. https://doi-org.ezproxy2.library.arizona.edu/10.1038/s41467-023-43906-8
Schafroth, JL, Basile, BM, Martin, A, & Murray, EA (2021) No evidence that monkeys attribute 
mental states to animated shapes in the Heider-Simmel videos. Scientific Reports. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-82702-6
Basile, BM, Schafroth, JL, Karaskiewicz, CL, Chang, SWC, & Murray, EA. (2020). The anterior 
cingulate cortex is necessary for forming prosocial preferences from vicarious reinforcement in monkeys. PLOS Biology. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3000677