Annalise Mangone is a Ph.D. student in sociocultural anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis. Her research explores questions about social and biological death, specifically through examinations of how individuals express spiritual and religious belief through the creation of advance care plans. Her fieldwork is carried out in Pittsburgh, PA, where she can investigate these questions as they apply to American healthcare systems and the bureaucratic standardization of care practices and medical decision-making.

 

Theoretically, her work is based in medical, religious, and psychological anthropology.