Fran Mascia-Lees is Professor of Anthropology and Chair of the Department of Anthropology at Rutgers University. She is also currently the Editor-in-Chief of the American Anthropologist, the flagship journal of the American Anthropological Associati
...MoreFran Mascia-Lees is Professor of Anthropology and Chair of the Department of Anthropology at Rutgers University. She is also currently the Editor-in-Chief of the American Anthropologist, the flagship journal of the American Anthropological Association. Before coming to Rutgers, she taught at Sarah Lawrence College, Hunter College, SUNY Albany, and Simon’s Rock College of Bard, where she also co-founded and directed the Women’s Studies Program from 1986-1996. She has written widely on feminist and anthropological theory, the intersection of anthropology and literature, the female body and subjectivity, and the politics of cross-cultural representation. Her books include Women's Realities/Women's Choices (2005), Taking a Stand in a Postfeminist World: Toward an Engaged Cultural Criticism (2000); Gender and Anthropology (2000); Tattoo, Torture, Mutilation, and Adornment: The Denaturalization of the Body in Culture and Text (1992); and Toward a Model of Women's Status (1984). In 1998 she was awarded the American Anthropological Association’s Mayfield Award for Excellence in the Teaching of Anthropology. She is currently at work on the book, Global Intimacies.
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