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 , was published in Fall 2000 by Duke University Press and won a National Jewish Book Award for the year 2000, 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 medical anthropology, kinship studies, Israel studies and anthropology of the Middle East. In addition to her administrative responsibilities, she is currently working on a research project about the social uses of new reproductive technologies in diverse cultural contexts. Susan was born and raised in Cambridge, Mass.
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