Anthony DiMario, PhD

Anthony DiMario, PhD, received his doctorate in Sociology from the University of Southern California. Broadly interested in the connections between economy, governance, and population health, his doctoral research uses ethnographic observation and other qualitative methods to examine the role of harm reduction as an emergent yet contested site and logic for regulating social suffering in American cities and beyond. This work received support from the National Science Foundation, coverage in the Stanford Social Innovation Review, and awards from the American Sociological Association. His research has previously appeared in American Sociological Review and Social Problems.

As a CTCRE fellow, Dr. DiMario intends to conduct archival research that examines how the problem of opioid misuse and overdose is constituted within the context of litigation, with an eye toward how corporate, government, and community voices co-create official accounts of the crisis, and consequently chart solutions. The aftermath of litigation is of special interest. Tracing the processes that shape the allocation of opioid settlement funds may illuminate how corporate and state actors envision and ultimately affect racial and health equity, overdose prevention and harm reduction, and everyday realities of people who use drugs.