Rachel Apone is a Mershon Center Postdoctoral Scholar. Her Fulbright-Hays funded dissertation, Doubt-Casting: Living with Uncertainty in Madang, Papua New Guinea, drew on twelve months of immersive ethnographic fieldwork and discusses the role uncertainty plays in social life in the Pacific Island nation of Papua New Guinea.  

She has experience teaching the Introduction to Anthropology and has served as a teaching assistant for numerous courses including Medical Anthropology and Language and Culture.  As a sociocultural anthropologist working in Oceania, her research explores how uncertainty can be a powerful tool in peacebuilding and conflict resolution and how cultural attitudes about truth and uncertainty inform national and provincial politics. Her research is interdisciplinary at heart, drawing from philosophy, political theory, medical and linguistic anthropology, and conflict studies.

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