Miriam Ticktin

Miriam Ticktin is Assistant Professor in Women’s Studies and Anthropology, and both supported by and involved with the International Institute. She received an M.Phil in English from Oxford University as a Rhodes scholar, a Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology from Stanford University in 2002, and a Ph.D. in Medical Anthropology in “co-tutelle” with the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in France, also in 2002. She is currently working on her book, Between Justice and Compassion: ‘Les Sans Papiers’ and the Political Economy of Health, Human Rights and Humanitarianism in France, about the fight for social justice of undocumented immigrants in France, as well as co-editing a volume called Government and Humanity which explores new conceptions of the category humanity. Her new research builds on these themes, examining the relationship between medical humanitarianism, health and immigration transnationally; the role of sexual violence in border patrol; and the relationship between biology, citizenship, and global capitalism. Her teaching interests include human rights, law and social justice; the political economy of gender and health; the anthropology of medicine and ethics; transnational feminisms and feminist theory; and immigration, race and class in Europe.