I am a psychological and medical anthropologist who has done long-term ethnographic research on suffering, emotions, moods, ethics, and empathy on the island of Yap in Micronesia. Topically, my projects have focused on pain, illness (including type II Diabetes), political transformation, and more recently responses to climate change in Micronesian communities. Much of this work has focused on theoretically and empirically engaging the concept of empathy and disentangling it from related concepts like sympathy, compassion, care, and kindness. I have also written about the role of empathy in anthropological research.