Sam Dubal earned his PhD from the UCSF/UC-Berkeley joint medical anthropology program, and is currently a medical student at Harvard. His research interests include violence, critical studies of humanitarianism, anti-humanism and post-human anthropology, and radical medicine. Dubal's PhD dissertation, "Against Humanity: Life, Violence, and Rebellion in an African Postcolony," was based on 13 months of ethnographic fieldwork among former Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebels in northern Uganda. Dubal earned his BA in cultural and social anthropology, with honors, from Stanford University. At Stanford, he taught a student-initiated course on the anthropology of soccer. He also wrote and published his honors thesis, "The Neoliberalization of Football," on democratic fan movements in Brazil and England in the midst of the global commodification of the game. Dubal is a passionate supporter of Arsenal FC.