Mitra C. Emad is an American anthropologist and Distinguished University Teaching Professor at the

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. 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. She is also an established somatic and yoga educator.

Career

Emad received her BA from

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in 1987 and her MA from the

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in 1989. She wrote her doctoral dissertation on

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among Americans under the supervision of Eugenia Georges at

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in 1998. During her career at the

, she developed a Participatory Media Lab with David Syring (Professor of Anthropology at UMD).

References

American women anthropologists Living people American yoga teachers University of Minnesota Duluth faculty DePaul University alumni University of Chicago alumni Rice University alumni American cultural anthropologists Year of birth missing (living people) {{US-cultural-anthropologist-stub