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Dr Céline Coderey is Research Fellow with ARI’s Inter-Asia Engagements Cluster and a Lecturer at Tembusu College. 

She received her M.A. and PhD in Anthropology from the University of Provence, Aix-Marseille 1 (France) and her M.A. in Psychology from the University of Lausanne (Switzerland). Her field of expertise spans from medical anthropology and anthropology of the body to anthropology of religion and anthropology of dance, and also to questions of heritage making, displacement and temporalities. She dedicated 16 years to the study of medical pluralism in Myanmar and neighbouring Southeast Asian countries. Her current project focuses on Polynesia and looks at dance as embodiment of the land and seascape in a context of ecological change. 

Her teaching includes the undergraduate interdisciplinary seminars Biomedicine and Singapore Society, Time and Life, Skin, and courses in Medical Anthropology.