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Dr. Susan Kahn
Center for Middle Eastern Studies
Harvard University
38 Kirkland St.
Cambridge, MA 02138

CMES, 38 Kirkland St.
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617-495-7596
617-496-8584
skahn@fas.harvard.edu

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Susan Kahn received her M.A. in Middle Eastern Studies and Ph.D. in Social Anthropology from Harvard University. Her book, Reproducing Jews: A Cultural Account of Assisted Conception in Israel (Duke 2000) won a National Jewish Book Award, as well as the 2001 Eileen Basker Memorial Prize, awarded by the Society of Medical Anthropology for outstanding research in gender and health. Her research interests include: Anthropology of the Middle East, Medical Anthropology, Kinship Studies, and Animal Studies. She is currently working on a research project about the cultural history of dogs in the Levant from ancient times to the present. Susan was born and raised in Cambridge, Mass.