Sherine Hamdy
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Phone: 401 863 3251
Phone: 401 863 7461
Sherine_Hamdy@Brown.edu
Sherine Hamdy is an assistant professor of the Department of Anthropology. She received her Ph.D. from New York University Department of Anthropology in 2006. Her current book project, Our Bodies Belong to God: Islam and Medicine in Egypt is under contract with the University of California Press. Hamdy teaches courses on theories and controversies in Science and Society, and the anthropology of bioethics. Her research focuses on the anthropology of medicine, health, science, and technology, and the production of knowledge. Her field experience has been in Egypt.
Biography
Sherine Hamdy grew up in New York; Port-Au-Prince, Haiti; Bamako, Mali; and Mexico City, Mexico. She received a B.A. in Human Biology from Stanford University in 1997, an M.A. in Anthropology from Stanford in 1998, and a PhD in Anthropology from New York University in 2006. From 2006-2008 she was a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities at Brown University. In 2008, she joined the Department of Anthropology as an assistant professor. She teaches courses in science and society and medical anthropology. She serves on the faculty committee of Science, Technology, and Society and the faculty committee on Middle East Studies.
Interests
Medical anthropology, science studies, global biotechnologies, international health, comparative bioethics, Islam, the modern Middle East, Egyptian society, the production and reception of media, anthropology of gender/sex
Awards
Named Stanley J. Bernstein Assistant Professor of the Social Sciences and International Affairs, Brown University, 2008
Social Science Research Council Book Fellowship, awarded for support of book manuscript Our Bodies Belong to God, 2008
Malcolm H. Kerr Dissertation Award, Honorable Mention in the category of the Social Sciences, Awarded by the Middle East Studies Association, November 2006
Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, awarded for scholarly contributions to the fields of ethics and religion, 2005-2006.
Starr Foundation Fellowship, Awarded for most outstanding applicant-fellow at the Center for Arabic Studies Abroad. 6/2001-6/2002.
Affiliations
Member, American Anthropology Association, Middle East Studies Section, Society for Medical Anthropology, Society for Cultural Anthropology, Middle East Studies Association, American Academy of Religion, Society for the Social Studies of Science
Teaching
Since 2006, I have taught the introductory course in Science and Society, and an anthropology course on bioethics and science in cross-cultural perspective.
Funded Research
National Science Foundation Grant, Societal Dimensions of Ethics, Science, and Technology, awarded for dissertation research in Egypt (9/2002-9/2003. Extended until 9/2004).
National Institutes of Health, National Research Service Award, 3-year Training Fellowship, awarded for graduate study support and dissertation research (6/2002-5/2005, Extended until 5/2006)
Social Science Research Council (SSRC) International Dissertation Research Fellowship, 9/2002-9/2003. Extended until 9/2004.