Sonya E. Pritzker, Associate Professor, University of Alabama, Department of Anthropology, is a linguistic and medical anthropologist, as well as a licensed practitioner of Chinese medicine. Her work focuses on the intersection of language and embodied experience in relation to culturally situated ideologies of race, class, gender, health and selfhood.

Integrating theories and methods from linguistic, psychological, and biocultural medical anthropology, Sonya’s research emphasizes collaborative and interdisciplinary approaches to advance understanding of human emotion, intimacy, and physical and mental wellbeing. She is a leader in embodied social justice.

Sonya edited Living Toward Justice: A Time Capsule (New Village Press, 2025) with the Living Justice Project Collaborators. The book documents three collective time capsules from 2020 to 2022, during which fifty-two collaborators in the Living Justice Project responded to a series of prompts and activities to express “What does it look, feel, and sound like to live (towards) justice in your life?”