Mitra Emad

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Mitra C. Emad
میترا عماد
Education DePaul University (BA 1987), University of Chicago (MA 1989), Rice University (PhD 1998)
Spouse David Syring
Parents
Scientific career
Fields anthropology
Institutions University of Minnesota Duluth
Thesis Feeling the qi: Emergent bodies and disclosive fields in American appropriations of acupuncture  (1998)
Doctoral advisor Eugenia Georges
Other academic advisors Kathryn Milun
Stephen A. Tyler
George Marcus
Elizabeth Long

Mitra C. Emad is an American anthropologist and Distinguished University Teaching Professor at the University of Minnesota Duluth. 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. [1] [2] She is also an established somatic and yoga educator. [3]

Career

Emad received her BA from DePaul University in 1987 and her MA from the University of Chicago in 1989. She wrote her doctoral dissertation on acupuncture among Americans under the supervision of Eugenia Georges at Rice University in 1998. During her career at the University of Minnesota Duluth, she developed a Participatory Media Lab with David Syring (Professor of Anthropology at UMD). [4]

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References

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  2. "Two faculty members to receive Horace T. Morse Awards". The Bark.
  3. "Mitra Emad". Yoga Alliance.
  4. "Dr. Mitra Emad". College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, UMN Duluth.