Sarina McCabe

As a researcher with prior exposure to clinical & counseling work, Sarina Adeline works in the field of Trauma Studies. With the emergence of the PTSD diagnosis in 1980, discourses about trauma diagnoses have rapidly proliferated, both in medicine and media. Many cutting edge trauma scholars work to synthesize the lenses of medicine and human biology (including epigenetics) with psychosocial and cultural models for examining psychiatric illness. Sarina hopes to hone in on anthropological and psychiatric methods of studying and treating traumatized individuals, including those with subclinical designations. Sarina’s fieldwork and dissertation project will allow her to step outside the domain of the clinical, to investigate how adolescents with complex trauma histories develop life narratives, as well as how they build and access coping mechanisms, often in the absence of formal psychiatric care.

As well as working toward an interdisciplinary PhD in Modern Thought & Literature, Sarina is a Master's Candidate in Anthropology. She completed her Bachelor’s degree in Creative Writing, from Emory University. Her eclectic background speaks to her love of bringing seemingly disparate things together. In addition to serving as a hotline crisis counselor, she has work experience in lab science, scholarship administration, publishing, and construction. She loves ballroom dancing and her (very silly) German Shepherd, Kahlo.