Rebecca J. Lester, Ph.D., LCSW is Professor of Anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis, USA. Her research interests include mental health, gender, sexuality, and religion, with a particular interest in how people experience and navigate existential challenges. She is also a practicing psychotherapist specializing in eating disorders, trauma, personality disorders, mood disorders, and gender/sexuality issues. Her most recent book, Famished: Eating Disorders and Failed Care in America (2019) was awarded a Victor Turner Prize for Ethnographic Writing.
