Education
2011 — Ph.D. Anthropology, University of Florida, with a certificate in African Studies
2006 — M.A. Anthropology, University of Florida
2002 — M.A. African and African American Studies, University at Albany, SUNY
2001 — B.A. Anthropology and History (With Distinction), University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Academic Positions Held
Sept 2023-Present–Professor of Instruction, Global Health Studies, Northwestern University
Sept. 2018-August 2023–Associate Professor of Instruction, Global Health Studies, Northwestern University
Sept. 2015-Aug. 2018–Assistant Professor of Instruction, Global Health Studies, Northwestern University
Sept. 2012-Aug. 2015 — Lecturer, Global Health Studies and Anthropology, Northwestern University
Faculty Affiliations at Northwestern University: Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Studies, Program of African Studies, Science and Human Culture Program, Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities, Sexualities Project at Northwestern (SPAN).
Publications
Peer Reviewed Articles & Book Chapters
2020 Sullivan, Noelle. “Like a Real Hospital”: Imagining Hospital Futures through Homegrown Public Private Partnerships in Tanzania. For special issue “Beyond Realism: Anthropology of Africa’s Medical Dreams.” Africa: Journal of the International African Institute 90(1): 209-228. Noémi Tousignant & P. Wenzel Geissler, guest editors. doi: 10.1017/S0001972019001013
2020 Marten, Meredith G. & Noelle Sullivan. Hospital Side Hustles: Funding Conundrums and Perverse Incentives in Tanzania’s Publicly-Funded Health Sector. Social Science & Medicine, 244. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2019.112662.
2018 Sullivan, Noelle. “International Clinical Volunteering in Tanzania: A Postcolonial Analysis of a Global Health Business.” For special issue, “Mobility and (Dis)connectivity in the Global Health Enterprise,” Dominik Mattes and Hansjörg Dilger, guest editors, Global Public Health, 13(3): 310-324. doi: 10.1080/17441692.2017.1346695
2017 Sullivan, Noelle. “Multiple Accountabilities: Development Co-operation, Transparency, and the Politics of Unknowing in Tanzania’s Health Sector.” For special section “In Search of Results: Anthropological Interrogations of Evidence-Based Global Health.” Elanah Uretsky and Elsa Fan, special editors. Critical Public Health, 17(2): 193-204. doi: 10.1080/09581596.2016.1264572
2016 Sullivan, Noelle. “Hosting gazes: Clinical volunteer tourism and hospital hospitality in Tanzania.” In Ruth Prince and Hannah Brown (eds.) Volunteer Economies: The Politics and Ethics of Voluntary Labour in Africa, pp. 140-163. James Currey publishers.
2016 Wendland, Claire, Susan Erikson, and Noelle Sullivan. “Beneath the spin: Moral complexity and rhetorical simplicity in ‘global health’.” In Ruth Prince and Hannah Brown (eds.) Volunteer Economies: The Politics and Ethics of Voluntary Labour in Africa, pp. 164-182. James Currey publishers.
2012 Sullivan, Noelle. “Enacting Spaces of Inequality: Placing global/state governance within a Tanzanian hospital.” For special issue, “Hospital Heterotopias: Comparative Ethnographies of Biomedical Places,” Alice Street and Simon Coleman, eds. Space and Culture. Vol. 15(1):57-67. doi: 10.1177/1206331211426057 space-and-culture-2012-sullivan
2011 Sullivan, Noelle. “Mediating Abundance and Scarcity: Implementing an HIV/AIDS-targeted project within a government hospital in Tanzania.” In special issue, “Global AIDS medicine in East African health institutions,” Anita Hardon and Hansjörg Dilger, eds. Medical Anthropology 30(2):202-221. doi:10.1080/01459740.2011.552453 sullivan-2011-abundance-scarcity
2010 Sullivan, Noelle, Hansjörg Dilger and David Garcia. “Negotiating Professionalism, Economics, and Altruism: An Appeal for Ethnographic Approaches to African Medical Migration.” African Diaspora 3(2):237-254. doi:10.1163/187254610X526931
Invited Commentaries
2015 Sullivan, Noelle. Comment on “Partial Publics: The Political Promise of Traditional Medicine in Africa” (Stacey Langwick). Current Anthropology 56(4): 509-510.
Other Publications
2016 Sullivan, Noelle. Hospital (In)Visibilities: Engaging the (Im)Possibilities of Ontological Instability: A Review of Biomedicine in an Unstable Place: Infrastructure and Personhood in a Papua New Guinean Hospital. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. For Science as Culture. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09505431.2016.1182972
2014 Sullivan, Noelle. “Medical insecurity in Ethiopia’s Somali region: A review of The Aftermath of Aid: Medical Insecurity in the Northern Somali Region of Ethiopia, by Lauren Carruth.” For Dissertation Reviews, http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/8310, posted April 16th.
Teaching Experience — Undergraduate Courses
Introduction to Global Health
Introduction to International Public Health
Beyond Porn: Sexuality, Health and Pleasure
Volunteering and the Ethics of Help
Global Health from Policy to Practice
Biomedicine and Culture
Qualitative Research Methods in Global Health
Global Health and Indigenous Medicine
Medical Heroes and Villains
Development in the Global Context
HIV/AIDS in Africa
Hospital Cultures
Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
Human Sexuality and Culture
Noelle Sullivan, Ph.D. 