Ellen M. Burstein

Researcher and Writer Exploring the Intersections of Health, Governance, Culture, and Migration

Independent Research Projects

Accompaniment, Trust, and La Colaborativa: An Ethnography of COVID-19 Vaccination in Chelsea, Massachusetts (2022)

A National Health Service on an “Island of Strangers:” An Ethnography of Migration and the NHS (2024-2025)

Against death-worlds: Migration Theology in the Jesuit Refugee Service UK (2025-2026)

Presentations
Multaka-Oxford Research Workshop, History of Science Department, University of Oxford, February 2026
Woolf Institute at the University of Cambridge, Research Symposium on Faith, Refugees, and Migration, February 2026
Society for Applied Anthropology, Annual Meeting, March 2026
Medical Anthropology Young Scholars Annual Conference, Rotterdam, Netherlands, June 2026 (invited discussant and featured paper)
Looking back, moving forward: migration studies in times of societal transformation, CESSMIR Conference, Universiteit Gent, Belgium, September 2026
Young Scholars in Medical Humanities, Uppsala Universiteit, Uppsala, Sweden, November 2026

Posters
11th Biennial Conference of the Society for the Humanities, Social Science, and Medicine, UCSF/ UC Davis/ UC Berkeley, April 2026
RE:Anthropology: Postgraduate Conference in Anthropology, Durham University, May 2026
Public and Community Engagement with Research Conference, The University of Oxford, June 2026
EBM Live 2026: Elevating evidence-based healthcare in a post-pandemic world, The University of Oxford, June 2026