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. A specialist on Middle Eastern gender, religion, and health issues, Inhorn has conducted research in Egypt, Lebanon, the United Arab Emirates, and Arab-America over the past thirty years. She is the author of six books on the subject, including, among others, The New Arab Man: Emergent Masculinities, Technologies, and Islam in the Middle East (Princeton University Press, 2012) and Cosmopolitan Conceptions: IVF Sojourns in Global Dubai (Duke University Press, 2015). She is the founding editor of the Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (JMEWS), has served on the executive board of the Middle East Studies Association, and has been the director of Middle East centers at both Yale University and the University of Michigan. Inhorn has been a visiting faculty member at the American University of Beirut and the American University of Sharjah. She has received numerous awards for her books and scholarship, including the Middle East Distinguished Scholar award from the American Anthropological Association’s Middle East Section.
