The article “Defining Women’s Health: A Dozen Messages from More than 150 Ethnographies,” published in 2006, is reprinted in Open Anthropology, A Public Journal of The American Anthropological Association. Marcia Inhorn is author of the next article included in this...

The Islamic Republic of Infertility Treatment? All eyes have been on Iran's uranium enrichment programs - but they've overlooked the country's baby-making programs. We look at how Iran is leaps ahead of its Sunni neighbors when it comes to fertility. Hosted by:...

Society for Medical Anthropology, January 2014, Vol. 2 No. 1 Mary Read-Wahidi (U Alabama) Jonathan Stillo (CUNY Graduate Center) Each year, a committee of SMA student members reviews nomination letters for the annual Graduate Student Mentor Award. Each year we are...

Dear Dr. Inhorn, It is my pleasure to inform you that you have been chose to receive the Medical Anthropology Student Association (MASA) 2013 Graduate Student Mentor Award. Of all of the awards supported by the Society for Medical Anthropology, the Mentor Award...

This biennial award was established in 2006 to recognize the efforts of “a senior scholar in Middle Eastern anthropology who is an outstanding academic in terms of scholarly publications and service to Middle Eastern anthropology.”  The 2013 award will be officially...

What can the pursuit of infertility treatment by many Arab and Muslim couples tell us about religion, technology, migration, healthcare provision, gender roles and stereotypes, and violent conflict? Marcia Inhorn discusses her multifaceted research into the situation...

2012 Council on Anthropology and Reproduction  (CAR) Prize for “Most Notable Recent Edited Collection” for Assisting Reproduction, Testing Genes: Global Encounters with New Biotechnologies, eds. Daphna Birenbaum-Carmeli and Marcia C. Inhorn (Berghahn Books 2009). ~ ~...

The 'New' Arab Man: Middle Eastern, Muslim men are often represented as 'zealots' and oppressors of women. But Laurie Taylor hears how 2 decades of research by the Professor of Anthropology, Marcia Inhorn, is undermining such cultural stereotypes. Her study found that...

Panel on Anthropology of Masculinities, MESA 2011, December 3, 11:00 am - 1:00 pm.  

The New Arab Man: Emergent Masculinities, Technologies, and Islam in the Middle East, by Marcia C. Inhorn (Princeton University Press, 2012) Since September 11th, 2001, Middle Eastern Muslim men have been particularly vilified as terrorists, religious zealots, and...

New Haven, Conn. — Yale Professor Marcia Inhorn, a leading scholar in the field of medical anthropology, has been named the first Diane Middlebrook and Carl Djerassi Visiting Professor at the Centre for Gender Studies at the University of Cambridge in honor of her...

The Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies (JMEWS) Book Award has been established by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies (AMEWS) to recognize and promote excellence in the fields of Middle East women’s or gender studies, broadly defined. The JMEWS Book...

The Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies (JMEWS) Graduate Student Paper Prize has been established by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies (AMEWS) to recognize and promote excellence in the fields of Middle East women’s or gender studies, broadly defined,...

Middle East Studies Association Annual Meeting December 1-4, 2011 Marriott Wardman Park Washington, DC   At its annual meeting, the Executive Board of the Middle East Studies Association discussed the importance of engaging the new trajectories in the...