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Mitra C. Emad
میترا عماد

Education

DePaul University (BA 1987), University of Chicago (MA 1989), Rice University (PhD 1998)

Spouse

David Syring

Parents

  • Gertrud Emad (mother)
  • Scientific career

    Fields

    anthropology

    Institutions

    University of Minnesota Duluth

    Thesis

    Feeling the qi: Emergent bodies and disclosive fields in American appropriations of acupuncture (1998)

    Doctoral advisor

    Eugenia Georges

    Other academic advisors

    Kathryn Milun
    Stephen A. Tyler
    George Marcus
    Elizabeth Long

    Mitra C. Emad is an American anthropologist and Distinguished University Teaching Professor at the University of Minnesota Duluth. She is known for her works on cultural constructions of the human body. Emad is a recipient of the Horace T. Morse-University of Minnesota Alumni Association Award.[1][2] She is also an established somatic and yoga educator.[3]

    Career[edit]

    Emad received her BA from DePaul University in 1987 and her MA from the University of Chicago in 1989. She wrote her doctoral dissertation on acupuncture among Americans under the supervision of Eugenia GeorgesatRice University in 1998. During her career at the University of Minnesota Duluth, she developed a Participatory Media Lab with David Syring (Professor of Anthropology at UMD).[4]

    References[edit]

    1. ^ "Congratulations, Mitra Emad!". www.umnalumni.org.
  • ^ "Two faculty members to receive Horace T. Morse Awards". The Bark. 26 March 2018.
  • ^ "Mitra Emad". Yoga Alliance.
  • ^ "Dr. Mitra Emad". College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, UMN Duluth.

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