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Roy Richard Grinker

Roy Richard Grinker (born 1961) is an American author and professor of anthropology, international affairs, and human sciences at The George Washington University.

Grinker is an authority on North and South Korean relations. As part of his PhD research, he spent two years living with the Lese farmers and the Efé pygmies in the northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo as a Fulbright scholar. He has also conducted epidemiological research on autism in Korea.

Grinker is also editor of ''Anthropological Quarterly''. He has also written op-ed articles for the New York Times and appeared as a guest on PBS NewsHour.

His latest book, ''Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness'', was included in the New York Time's editor's choice list for the week of February 4, 2021. Provided by Wikipedia