Sarah S. Willen

Assistant Professor of Anthropology

Education:

• NIMH Postdoctoral Fellowship, Harvard University (2006-09)
• PhD, Emory University (2006)
• MPH, Emory University (2006)
• BA, Case Western Reserve University (1996)

Research & Teaching Interests

• Medical and sociocultural anthropology; Transnational im/migration and migrant "illegality"; Im/migration and health; Biopolitics and social exclusion; Health and human rights; Global health; Gender and reproductive health; Embodiment and experience; Moral economies of "deservingness"; The U.S. "cultural competence" movement; Anthropology of the Middle East, especially the region of Israel and Palestine

Articles & Book Chapters

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Edited and co-authored volumes

• "Migration, 'Illegality,' and Health: Mapping Vulnerability and Debating 'Deservingness.'" Special issue of Social Science & Medicine. Sarah S. Willen, guest editor. Forthcoming 2012.
• "Horizons of Experience: Reinvigorating Dialogue between Phenomenological and Psychoanalytic Anthropologies." Special Issue of Ethos. Sarah S. Willen and Don Seeman, guest editors. Forthcoming 2012.
• Shattering Culture: American Medicine Responds to Cultural Diversity. Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good, Sarah S. Willen, Seth Hannah, Ken Vickery, and Lawrence T. Park. New York: Russell Sage Foundation. 2011.
• A Reader in Medical Anthropology: Theoretical Trajectories, Emergent Realities. Byron Good, Michael M.J. Fischer, Sarah S. Willen, Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good, editors. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell. 2010.
• "Exploring 'Illegal' and 'Irregular' Migrants' Lived Experiences of Law and State Power." Special Issue of International Migration. 45(3). Sarah S. Willen, guest editor. 2007.
• Transnational Migration to Israel in Global Comparative Context. Sarah S. Willen, editor. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. 2007.

Collaborative blog

• "AccessDenied: A Conversation on Unauthorized Im/migration and Health"

Awards & Honors (select)

• Certificate of Distinction in Teaching - Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning & Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Education - Harvard College (2008, 2009)
• Rudolf Virchow Award, Graduate Student Prize - Critical Anthropology of Global Health Special Interest Group, Society for Medical Anthropology (2004)
• David R. Blumenthal Award in Jewish Studies & the Humanities - Emory (2004)
• Marjorie Shostak Prize for Excellence & Humanity in Ethnographic Writing - Emory (2003)