Dr Rania Kassab Sweis is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Richmond. Her research interests center on critical medical anthropology, global health and medical humanitarianism, transnational feminist theory, and the Middle East and North Africa region.
Her first book, Paradoxes of Care: Children and Global Medical Aid in Egypt (Stanford University Press, 2021), traces the experiences of vulnerable children in Egypt who receive global medical assistance and is based on over two consecutive years (2007-2009) of ethnographic research in Egypt. Her second book project focuses on the politics of medical humanitarianism in the Syrian Civil War, with a focus on local healthcare workers.
Dr Sweis’s research has garnered various awards and grants, including from the Social Science Research Counsel, the Association for Feminist Anthropology, the Middle East Studies Association, and the Southeast Regional Middle East and Islamic Studies Society. Her publications have appeared in academic journals such as Medical Anthropology Quarterly, Childhood, The International Journal for Middle East Studies, and The Journal for Middle Eastern Women's Studies.
