Each year the Department of Anthropology presents the Kassen Lecture. Generously supported by Drs. Aileen and Julian Kassen, the lectureship invites a top female scholar in the social sciences to the department to present a lecture to the campus community. In addition to the lecture, anthropology graduate students have the opportunity to meet with the Kassen Lecturer in a small group discussion.
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Marcia C. Inhorn is the William K. Lanman, Jr. Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs at Yale University. A specialist on Middle Eastern gender and health issues, Inhorn has conducted research on the social impact of infertility and assisted reproductive technologies in Egypt, Lebanon, the United Arab Emirates, and Arab America over the past 20 years. She is (co)editor of eight volumes and author of four books on the subject, including The New Arab Man: Emergent Masculinities, Technologies, and Islam in the Middle East, which will be published by Princeton University Press in March 2012. Inhorn is the founding editor of the Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies (JMEWS), and co-editor (with Soraya Tremayne) of Berghahn Books’ “Fertility, Reproduction, and Sexuality” series. Inhorn has directed Yale’s Council on Middle East Studies and the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies at the University of Michigan. Currently, she serves on the Board of Directors of the Middle East Studies Association, and was President of the Society for Medical Anthropology of the American Anthropological Association. In Fall 2010, Inhorn was the first Diane Middlebrook and Carl Djerassi Visiting Professor at the Centre for Gender Studies, directed by Jude Browne at the University of Cambridge.
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PAST LECTURES
1999 / 2000 / 2001 / 2002 / 2003 / 2005 / 2006 / 2007 / 2008 / 2009 / 2010
Sarah Lamb (Ph.D., Associate Professor Anthropology, Brandeis University)
LECTURE TITLE: "Abandonment and Freedom: Elder-Care Institutions, Individualizing Subjectivities and the Ethics of Aging in Contemporary India."
Jennifer Furin (M.D., Harvard Medical School, Ph.D., University of California)
Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School, Medical Director for Partners in Health's (PIH) Progam in Lesotho
LECTURE TITLE: "Anthropologist as Witness; Anthropologist as Advocate: Objectivity and Responsibility in Current Anthropologic Practice"
Professor of Anthropology at UCLA. Research in cognitive anthropology, medical anthropology, research methods, Mesoamerica and northern North America.
LECTURE TITLE: "Enacting Ethos, Enacting Health: Parental Commentary and Everyday Life in a California Family"
Dr. Carol Worthman (Ph.D., Harvard University)
Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Laboratory for Comparative Biology at Emory University
LECTURE TITLE: "You Can't Always Get What You Want: Cultural Models, Parenting Practices, and Child Development"
Dr. Kathy Oths (Ph.D. Case Western Reserve University)
Professor of Anthropology at the University of Alabama
LECTURE TITLE: "Sociocultural Dimensions of Birth Outcomes: An Anthropological Approach to the Persistent Ethnic Gap"
Dr. Judith Justice (Ph.D. University of California at Berkeley)
Professor of Medical Anthropology and Health Policy at the University of California at San Francisco
LECTURE TITLE: "Volunteering in Poorer Countries: Empowerment or Exploitation?"
Dr. MaryJo DelVecchio Good (Ph.D. Harvard)
Professor of Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School and a teaching faculty member in the Center for Middle Eastern Studies and the Department of Sociology at Harvard University
LECTURE TITLE: "Indonesia Sakit (Indonesia in Pain): Interpretations of States of Crisis by Indonesian Contemporary Artists"
Dr. Carolyn Sargent (Ph.D. Michigan State)
Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Southern Methodist University
LECTURE TITLE: "Reproduction, Polygamy and the State: Challenges to Malian Migrants in Paris"
Dr. Shirley Lindenbaum (Ph.D. Hon. New School of Social Research)
Professor of Anthropology in the Graduate Center of the City University of New York
LECTURE TITLE: "Thinking about Epidemics: Kuru, Mad Cow and Variant Cretzfeldt Jakob Disease"
Dr. Jean Comaroff (Ph.D. University of London)
Professor of Anthropology and the Social Sciences in the College and former Chair of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Chicago
LECTURE TITLE: "Alien Nation: Zombies, Immigrants, and the State of the South African Postcolony"
Dr. Susan Scrimshaw (Ph.D. Columbia)
Dean of the School of Public Health and Professor of Community Health Sciences and Anthropology at University of Illinois at Chicago. She was formerly in the Department of Anthropology and Associate Dean of Public Health at UCLA.
LECTURE TITLE: "Anthropologists in Public Health: A Time of Opportunity"