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Marcia C. Inhorn
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Inhorn at Yale.
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| Born | 1957 |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | PhD, MPH |
| Alma mater | UC Berkeley |
| Employer | Yale University University of Michigan |
| Title | William K. Lanman Jr. professor |
| Board member of | Elected Fellow, Society for Applied Anthropology, American Anthropological Association, 2007. Chair, Council on Middle East Studies, Yale University, 2008 - 2011. 2019- present. Founding Editor, Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies |
| Spouse(s) | Kirk Hooks |
| Children | Carl & Justine |
| Awards | Robert B. Textor and Family Prize for Excellence in Middle East Anthropology, 2015. JMEWS Book Award for The New Arab Man: Emergent Masculinities, Technologies, and Islam in the Middle East, Association of Middle East Women’s Studies, Middle East Studies Association, 2014 Diana Forsythe Prize for Outstanding Feminist Anthropological Research on Work, Science, and Technology, 2007. Eileen Basker Prize award for Quest for Conception: Gender, Infertility, and Egyptian Medical Traditions. |
Marcia Claire Inhorn is a medical anthropologist and William K. Lanman Jr. Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs at Yale University where she serves as Chair of the Council on Middle East Studies. A specialist on Middle Eastern gender and health issues, Inhorn conducts research on the social impact of infertility and assisted reproductive technologies in Egypt, Lebanon, the United Arab Emirates, and Arab America.
Before joining the Yale faculty in 2008, Inhorn was a professor of medical anthropology at the University of Michigan and director of the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies. Inhorn served as president of the Society for Medical Anthropology of the American Anthropological Association.
Editorships
Inhorn is the founding editor of the Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies (JMEWS). She is also Co-Editor in Chief of Reproductive BioMedicine and Society and Associate editor for population and health of the journal Global Public Health. She is also editor or co-editor of ten volumes on medical anthropology, gender, reproduction, and the Middle East.
Awards
. Winner of the Diana Forsythe Prize for Outstanding Feminist Anthropological Research on Work, Science, and Technology, including Biomedicine; Society for the Anthropology of Work and The Committee on the Anthropology of Science, Technology, and Computing (CASTAC), American Anthropological Association, 2007
. Winner of the Eileen Basker Prize for Outstanding Research on Gender and Health, Society for Medical Anthropology, American Anthropological Association, 1995.
