A message from Marcia Inhorn, PhD, MPH
I am excited to be re-assuming the editorship of JMEWS, which we began at the University of Michigan in 2004. In 2006, the journal transitioned to the University of California, Los Angeles, where it thrived under the co-editorship of Sondra Hale and Nancy Gallagher. Numerous scholars from around the world are publishing in JMEWS. A JMEWS Graduate Student Paper Prize has been established, as well as a published JMEWS Distinguished Lecture. JMEWS’s affiliation with its professional society, the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies, remains strong. My hope as the incoming editor is to foster JMEWS’s continued growth and strength, as well as its recognition as the primary journal for scholarship in Middle East gender studies.
As of July 2010, JMEWS is located in the Council on Middle East Studies (CMES) at Yale University’s Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies. We believe that Yale CMES offers a supportive institutional environment for JMEWS during its next four years (2010-2014). Bonnie Rose Schulman, a graduate of Tufts University, with a master’s in International Affairs from Columbia University, will serve as the JMEWS Managing Editor. She has extensive background in Middle East Studies, and has edited a number of publications at Columbia University. Mikaela Rogozen-Soltar, the CMES Post-doctoral Fellow, will serve as the JMEWS Book Review Editor. She has completed her Anthropology PhD at the University of Michigan, where her research focuses on gender and Moroccan diaspora in Andalusian Spain.
At Yale University, I am the William K. Lanman Jr. Professor of Anthropology and International Relations, as well as the Chair of CMES. I am a medical anthropologist focusing on gender theory, infertility and assisted reproductive technologies, and Islamic bioethics. I have carried out long-term fieldwork in Egypt, Lebanon, the United Arab Emirates, and “Arab Detroit.” I am the author of three books on Egypt, and I am currently completing a new book called Reconceiving Middle Eastern Manhood: Islam, Assisted Reproduction, and Emergent Masculinities.
During the next four years of my editorship, I hope to publish a wide range of articles, reports, and reviews in JMEWS, spanning the social sciences, humanities, and practice disciplines. I will be advised by a dynamic team of JMEWS Associate Editors and an excellent Editorial Advisory Board. Our Associate Editors, for example, come from the fields of anthropology, comparative literature, history, political science, and women’s studies. Our Editorial Advisory Board covers many fields, including postcolonial literary studies, law and human rights, sexuality and queer studies, globalization and transnationalism, women’s political movements, and feminist technoscience. Our geographic range stretches from Morocco to Afghanistan, but I also hope to “stretch” the geographic borders of the Middle Eastern region to examine diasporic and comparative issues in South Asia, sub-Saharan Africa, Europe and beyond. In addition, I hope to bring the latest Middle Eastern masculinities research into JMEWS, and to further develop themes of gender, science, and embodiment as part of the JMEWS vision over the next four years. We will continue JMEWS’s current graduate prize and distinguished lecture, but also add a new JMEWS book prize and an annual gender workshop at Yale.
I am excited to be working with you as we expand the scope of JMEWS over the next four years. I welcome both your suggestions and your manuscript submissions at jmews@yale.edu.
Marcia C. Inhorn, PhD, MPH
William K. Lanman Jr. Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs
Chair, Council on Middle East Studies, MacMillan Center
