At the recent meeting of the Association of American Anthropologists in San Francisco, it was announced that Marcia Inhorn, the William K. Lanman Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs was awarded the 2012 Council on Anthropology (CAR) Prize for “Most Notable Recent Edited Collection” for her co-edited volume, Assisting Reproduction, Testing Genes: Global Encounters with New Biotechnologies (co-editor Daphna Birenbaum-Carmeli Berghahn, 2009).

Inhorn is also the primary editor or co-editor of eight volumes, including Medical Anthropology at the Intersections: Histories, Activisms, and Futures (Duke U Press, 2012), Islam and Assisted Reproductive Technologies: Sunni and Shia Perspectives (Berghahn Books, 2012), Anthropology and Public Health: Bridging Differences in Culture and Society (Oxford U Press, 2009), Reconceiving the Second Sex: Men, Masculinity, and Reproduction (Berghahn Books, 2009), Reproductive Disruptions: Gender, Technology, and Biopolitics in the New Millennium (Berghahn Books, 2007), and Infertility around the Globe: New Thinking on Childlessness, Gender, and Reproductive Technologies (U California Press, 2002)..

As a Middle Eastern scholar, Inhorn has been a visiting professor at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon, and the American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. With research support from Fulbright-Hays and the National Science Foundation, she has been at work on two related research projects, “Middle Eastern Masculinities in the Age of New Reproductive Technologies” and “Globalization and Reproductive Tourism in the Arab World.”

Inhorn is the founding editor of JMEWS (Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies), the professional journal of the Association of Middle East Women’s Studies (Middle East Studies Association); associate editor of Global Public Health; and co-editor for the Berghahn Book series on “Fertility, Sexuality, and Reproduction.”  In 2012, she was awarded the Council on Anthropology (CAR) Prize for “Most Notable Recent Edited Collection” for Assisting Reproduction, Testing Genes: Global Encounters with New Biotechnologies, Daphna Birenbaum-Carmeli and Marcia C. Inhorn, eds. (Berghahn, 2009).

Inhorn comes to Yale from the University of Michigan (2001-2008). She has also taught at Emory University (1994-2000) and the University of Arizona (1991-1994). She is the wife of Kirk Hooks and mother of Carl (16) and Justine Hooks (13). Inhorn is also a cellist.