Oct. 8, 2024 — The department is delighted to share that the university’s Board of Trustees has approved the promotion of Neely Myers to Full Professor.
Myers, a leading medical anthropologist, is the author of many journal articles and two books, Breaking Points: Youth Mental Health Crises and How We Can All Help (University of California Press, 2024) and Recovery’s Edge: An Ethnography of Mental Health Care and Moral Agency (Vanderbilt University Press, 2015). At SMU, she directs the Mental Health Equity Lab.