Building Bridges Seminar

Sherine Hamdy is an associate professor of anthropology at the University of California, Irvine. Her research and teaching focus on medical anthropology and science and technology in the Middle East. She previously was an assistant professor in anthropology at Brown University; in 2009 she was the Kutayba Alghanim Assistant Professor of the Social Sciences. Hamdy received the 2009 Rudolph Virchow Award from the Society of Medical Anthropology for her article "When the State and Your Kidneys Fail: Political Etiologies in an Egyptian Dialysis Ward" (2008). She is author of Our Bodies Belong to God: Bioethics, Islam, and Organ Transplants in Egypt (2012). Hamdy received her Ph.D. from New York University.