Linda C. Garro holds doctorates in Social Sciences - Anthropology (1983, University of California, Irvine) and Cognitive Psychology (1982, Duke University) and is Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles. She has been a National Institute of Mental Health Research Fellow in Clinically Relevant Medical Anthropology at Harvard University and is a past recipient of a five-year National Health Research and Development Program Scholar Award in Canada. Her current research activities are in the areas of medical and cognitive anthropology and center on the following topics: the representation of cultural knowledge about illness; intracultural variation in such knowledge; how people make health care decisions; illness narratives and cultural knowledge; and remembering as a social, cultural and cognitive process. Research sites include a Purépecha (Tarascan) community in Mexico and several Anishinaabe (Ojibway) communities in Canada. She is co-author, with James C. Young, of Medical Choice in a Mexican Village (1994, Waveland) and co-editor, with Cheryl Mattingly, of Narrative and the Cultural Construction of Illness and Healing (December 2000, University of California Press). She is the 1999 recipient of the Stirling Award from the Society for Psychological Anthropology. Her articles have appeared in American Anthropologist; American Ethnologist; Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry; Ethos; Medical Anthropology Quarterly; Social Science and Medicine; and other journals.