Elizabeth Berk

Lecturer

Anthropology

Email

eberk@smu.edu

Office Location

Heroy Hall 453

Education

Ph.D. Yale University, 2021

Bio

Elizabeth Berk is a medical anthropologist whose research revolves around chronic illness, care, stigma, and technology in the Middle East. Her current book project, Viral Subjects: Stigma, Civil Society Activism, and the Making of HIV/AIDS in Lebanon, examines the experiences of people living with HIV/AIDS in Lebanon. Berk's scholarship, which has appeared in the Journal of Material Culture, has been supported by grants and fellowships from the National Science Foundation, Social Science Research Council, US Department of Education, and Yale MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies. Before joining the faculty at SMU, she was a Postdoctoral Associate at Yale University's Council on Middle East Studies. 

Research Interests

Disability •  Chronic Illness • Gender and Sexuality • Technology • The Middle East

Courses Taught

Health, Healing, and Ethics  Introduction to Medical Anthropology  Health as a Human Right  Health in Cross-Cultural Perspective  Biomedicine, Culture, and Power  Advanced Seminar in Ethnology: Disability and Chronic Illness


 

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