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Professor, Department of Anthropology, Faculty of Arts & Science
Faye Ginsburg is David B. Kriser Professor of Anthropology at NYU, where she also directs the Center for Media; Culture, and History; the Center for Religion and Media; and co-directs the NYU Council for the Study of Disability. An author/editor of four books, many articles, and prestigious awards including MacArthur and Guggenheim Fellowships, she has a longstanding interest in understanding cultural activism, from her first book, the multiple-award winning Contested Lives: The Abortion Debate in an American Community; to her two decades of work as a scholar, advocate, and curator of Indigenous media; to her current project, Disability, Personhood and the New Normal in 21st Century America, the focus of her work at the Humanities Initiative. With anthropologist Rayna Rapp, she has received support for this project from The Spencer Foundation, NYU’s Institute for Human Development and Social Change, and the National Endowment for the Humanities’ Collaborative Research Initiative ().
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About Faye Ginsburg
Faye Ginsburg is Founder and Codirector of the Council for the Study of Disability at New York University, where she is also David B. Kriser Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Center for Media, Culture and History. She is an award-winning author/editor of four books, all reflecting her long-standing interest in cultural activism. She is currently working with Rayna Rapp on research and writing on cultural innovation and cognitive difference.
The word “family” is highly charged in disability studies. On the one hand, families are seen as the site of nurturance, narrative, and theory building for those with disabilities (Bérubé ;Davis a;Grinker ;Kittay ). On the other, families are recognized as potential sites of repression, rejection, and infantilization. Whether seen positively or negatively, the term “family” is often taken for granted as a preordained, self-sufficient unit in discussions of family life influenced by disability. In the American context, the ideal of family generally involves parent-child relations in a classic heterosexual, nuclear, able-bodied household despite the coexistence of many other forms of fami
Professor Faye Ginsburg
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Faye Ginsburg is a member of the US Studies Centre's International Academic Advisory Committee. Ginsburg is the David B. Kriser Professor of Anthropology at New York University, where is also Director of the Graduate Program in Culture and Media. She is also founder and Director of the Centre for Media, Culture & History and co-Director of the Centre for Religion and Media, and Council for the Study of Disability at New York University.
Biography
Faye Ginsburg is a member of the US Studies Centre's International Academic Advisory Committee. Ginsburg is the David B. Kriser Professor of Anthropology at New York University, where is also Director of the Graduate Program in Culture and Media. She is also founder and Director of the Centre for Media, Culture & History and co-Director of the Centre for Religion and Media, and Council for the Study of Disability at New York University.
Ginsburg's research focuses on social anthropology, ethnographic film, the ethnography of media, indigenous media, social movements in the United States, and disabi
Faye Ginsburg facts for kids
Faye Ginsburg (born October 28, ) is an American anthropologist who has devoted her life to the exploration of different cultures and individuals’ styles of life. Ginsburg has published ethnographies about her fieldwork experiences in the U.S., Canada and Australia. The intercultural connections in her ethnographies have contributed to the fields of anthropology and sociology because they allow readers to understand other cultures through her narratives. Currently, she is an anthropology professor at New York University and the director of the Center for Media, Culture and History at NYU.
Early life and education
She was born on October 28, , in Chicago, Illinois to parents Benson Ginsburg and Pearl Miner. Her father, Benson, was a behavioral geneticist at the University of Chicago.
She graduated from Barnard College in with a BA, and from City University of New York, with a Ph.D. in
Awards
- MacArthur Fellows Program
- Council on Anthropology and Reproduction Edited Volume Prize,
- American Sociological Association's Sociology of Culture Book Award.
- Society for Medical Anthropology's Basket Award for Research on Gender and Health.
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