Kelsey Fritts
FORMER Staff Writer
Discipline: Medical Anthropology
Research interests: I’m currently doing research on experimental organ transplantations, specifically on organs sourced from non-human origins (xenotransplantation and artificial organ technologies). I’m also interested in and have done work on psychiatric nosology and mental illness, and I wrote my undergraduate dissertation on social desires and anxieties expressed in utopian/dystopian science fiction.
If you were a box of cereal what would you be and why: Probably cinnamon toast crunch, because it’s delicious. Plus, after you’re done with the cereal you can drink the sweet milk and that is just awesome. And I ate it for dessert all through undergrad and they say you are what you eat… so….
What did you want to be when you grew up: Either a horse whisperer or a famous singer/songwriter (think of me as the next Taylor Swift, but with less country flair)(note: still haven’t given up on either of those).
Where are you right now: I’m taking shelter in Starbucks because hell hath no fury like springtime rainstorms in Edinburgh. And I don’t have Internet at home so I come here to use their free wifi.
Tell us something about another staff writer: Bex is mildly afraid of human contact, but if you give her a long hug – at least 10 seconds in duration– she will be incredibly grateful for your show of affection (just hold on even if she protests or pulls away).
We've all encountered mental illness in some form or another. Maybe someone in your family suffers from depression, or someone from your school was rumoured to by “crazy”, or perhaps you are convinced that the homeless man on the sidewalk who yells a lot has schizophrenic paranoid delusions