Andrew C. Willford is a professor of anthropology and Asian studies at Cornell University. He is the author of Modernity and Malevolence in the Psychiatric Clinic: Anxious Selves in Urban and Rural South India (University of Hawaii, 2025) and The Future of Bangalore’s Cosmopolitan Pasts: Civility and Difference in a Global City (University of Hawaii, 2018). His previous research focused on forms of Tamil and Hindu displacement, revivalism, and identity politics in Malaysia.

He is currently researching mental health, psychiatry, neurology, and religious healing traditions in India and North America.

Geographic Research Area: India, Malaysia, and North America

Teaching/Research Interests: revivalism and identity politics, language and religion, mental health, psychiatry, neurology, and religious healing traditions
Key Networks: American Anthropological Association, American Ethnological Society

Topics of Interest: Ethnicity, nationalism, globalization, psychoanalysis, religious revivalism, Malaysia, India