On the Legacy of 9/11 – For Millions of Refugees, the Crisis Continues
Sept. 11 was a devastating event for the United States, causing the senseless deaths of nearly 3,000 Americans and the injury of more than 6,000 others. Sept. 11 was also a tragedy for the Middle East, as the U.S. responded by initiating two wars, one in Afghanistan...
What does it mean to be an anthropologist? Interview with Dr. Marcia Inhorn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5r4hPnSB6E Source and Transcript: https://academicinfluence.com/interviews/anthropology/marcia-inhorn-karina
A Yale Professor Explains How Fertility Clinics Can Better Support Patients
Dr. Inhorn talks to ELANZA Wellness's Catherine Hendy about key findings from her research that are relevant to how people experience fertility journeys - and some of the ways in which clinics can make care more patient-centered and meet different patients needs....
Special Issue of Anthropology of the Middle East, edited Lucia Volk and Marcia C. Inhorn
States of Displacement, Middle Eastern Refugees, Internally Displaced Persons, and Asylum Seekers in Global Contexts.” Special Issue of Anthropology of the Middle East, Lucia Volk and Marcia C. Inhorn, Guest Editors. Volume 16 (1), 2021.
Meet the Scholar: Snapshots of Intellectual Journeys
Marcia C. Inhorn, PhD, MPH, is the William K. Lanman, Jr. Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs in the Department of Anthropology and The Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale University, where she serves as Chair...
Teaching Under Triage
“Teaching Under Triage,” By Alice Yan, The New Journal As Yale wraps up its first-ever completely online semester, five tenured Yale faculty members, most of whom have been teaching for several decades, speak about how they’ve been handling online teaching while...
Top Influential Anthropologists Today
Considered the best of the sciences and humanities, modern anthropology necessitates an interdisciplinary approach. Among them you will see anthropologists of every race and gender, exploring complex problems with innovative solutions. These scholars are teachers,...
Facing High Costs at Home, Americans Seek Fertility Help Abroad
The Czech Republic has become one of many international hubs for Americans seeking out fertility treatments abroad. VIEW PDF.
The Silent Revolution in the Near East [German]
The Silent Revolution in the Near East - Birth rates decline in the Arab world, even in conservative states—for both financial and societal reasons. VIEW PDF
The Business of Being Born
Families are embracing assisted reproduction, as China reevaluates who has the right to reproduce. PDF
Egg freezing is driven by a lack of suitable partners, but men are still very much involved
By Professor Marcia C. Inhorn Appeared in BioNews 1030 Women are electing to collect and freeze their eggs in the hope of preserving fertility for the future. A common assumption is that this is to allow time to become established in a career but, in fact, only around...
Why Are Women Freezing Their Eggs
Listen to this podcast by Priscilla Posada in which Yale anthropologist Marcia C. Inhorn discusses egg freezing as a new form of fertility preservation. Prof. Inhorn has conducted a major National Science Foundation funded study of egg freezing in the US and...
The Arab world’s silent reproductive revolution
Changing household structures, economic growth and contraceptives prompt dramatic drop in fertility rate, study finds.by Inaara Gangji & Muhammad Chaudary Doha, Qatar - When Maryam al-Badr, 20, a Qatari female student at Northwestern University in Qatar,...
Being single in your 30s isn’t bad luck, it’s a global phenomenon
Researcher Nancy Smith-Hefner was chatting to university students in the city of Yogyakarta, Indonesia, when she noticed a trend. In a country with near “universal marriage,” where only 2% of women in their late 40s are estimated to have never married, young women...
Marcia C. Inhorn, America’s Arab Refugees: Vulnerability and Health on the Margins (New Texts Out Now)
Marcia C. Inhorn, America's Arab Refugees: Vulnerability and Health on the Margins (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2018). Jadaliyya (J): What made you write this book? Marcia C. Inhorn (MCI): The world is in the midst of the worst refugee crisis since World War...
ESHRE Annual Meeting, Barcelona, Spain, “Partnership problems and not career planning mainly explain why women are freezing their eggs.”
Embargo: 10.15 CET (GMT + 1) Monday 2 July 2018 This press release is in support of a presentation by Dr Marcia Inhorn on 2 July 2018 at the 34th Annual Meeting of ESHRE in Barcelona. Partnership problems and not career planning mainly explain why...
New Directions in the Anthropology of Religion and Gender: Faith and Emergent Masculinities
SPECIAL COLLECTION New Directions in the Anthropology of Religion and Gender: Faith and Emergent Masculinities INTRODUCTION by William Dawley & Brendan Jamal Thornton Marcia C. Inhorn | Islam, Sex, and Sin: IVF Ethnography as Muslim Men’s Confessional...
Why are more young women than ever freezing their eggs?
Stylist.co.uk investigates this growing trend, and speaks to four women who have frozen their eggs.
Male Infertility Is On The Rise — So Why Aren’t We Talking About It?
Sperm counts have been in a free fall in Western countries over the last 10 years, yet infertility is still largely seen as a women’s issue.by Sadiya Ansari Updated May 25, 2018
Published Special Issue: Men and Masculinities: SAGE Journals
Published Special Issue: Men and Masculinities: SAGE Journals "Introduction - Arab Masculinities, Anthropological Reconceptions" by Marcia C. Inhorn and Konstantina Isidoros https://doi.org/10.1177/1097184X17748168 Part I: MASCULINITY IN REVOLUTIONARY TIMES "Men of...