About

iBipolar.net

iBipolar.net was launched in the Spring of 2009 as a blog dedicated to reducing stigma surrounding mental illness, especially around bipolar disorder. It has since become the more static website that you see here.  

Scattergood Emerging Scholars Fellowship

iBipolar.net was a a 2009 Scattergood Emerging Scholars Fellowship project. The Scattergood Emerging Scholars Fellowship is grant given by Active Minds, a nonprofit mental health organization working to decrease stigma on college campuses nationwide, and the Thomas Scattergood Behavioral Health Foundation, a grant-making foundation that is dedicated to improving Behavioral Healthcare in the Philadelphia area, to college student to pursue projetcs related to mental health research and the destigmatization of mental illnesses.

In the words of the Active Minds website: "The Fellowship provides an opportunity for students to complete funded, independent mental health projects and to be connected with a network of young scholars and national experts in the field of behavioral health. Emerging Scholars aims to expand the body of literature, creative expression, and discourse devoted to mental health with a particular emphasis on issues relevant to younger communities. Emerging Scholars is committed to the cultivation of the next generation of behavioral health advocates and experts. The Scattergood Emerging Scholars Fellowship funds six months of independent research and public dissemination for up to six college-aged scholars each year. The fellowship runs from January through July, coinciding with the spring semester and summer."

About Me

My name is Mallory Gill and I am a senior at the University of Maryland College Park, majoring in anthropology. In the future I hope to go on to study psychological and psychiatric anthropology in grad school.

The Discourse of Abnormal Behavior