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...

I am pleased to announce that the 2011 Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies Distinguished Lecture and Research Workshops will take place on Friday, April 15 at Yale University and will explore the topic of “Gender and the Middle East Uprisings.” Our Distinguished...

In Fall 2010, Dr. Inhorn was the first Diane Middlebrook and Carl Djerassi Visiting Professor in the Centre for Gender Studies at the University of Cambridge.  Her inaugural lecture was entitled, “Global Gametes: Reproductive ‘Tourism’ and Islamic Bioethics in the...

“Anthropology of the Middle East: A New Millennium” Conference, part of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) Annual Meeting, December 1-4, 2011, Marriott Wardman Park Hotel, Washington, DC. Organized by Suad Joseph, MESA President, and Marcia C. Inhorn, MESA...

Eugene Raikhel (ER): To begin I wanted to ask about how you got started working on fertility in Egypt? What were the motivations for you? Marcia Inhorn (MI): When I went to graduate school at Berkeley, the motivating questions were stigma and suffering. This is a...

New Haven, Conn. — Marcia C. Inhorn, who has joined the Yale faculty as the William K. Lanman Jr. Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs, is a specialist on the Middle East. At Yale, Inhorn is also serving as chair of the Council of Middle East Studies at...