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

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