Date:
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“Aging After Genocide: Meaning and Mortality in Rwanda”
Speaker:
Aalyia Feroz Ali Sadruddin, Postdoctoral Fellow, Watson Institute for International & Public Affairs, Brown University.
Contact:
Sadeq Rahimi
Sadeq_Rahimi@hms.harvard.edu
This seminar is cosponsored by the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School.
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Chairs:
Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good, Faculty Associate. Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, and Department of Sociology, Harvard University.
Byron J. Good, Faculty Associate. Professor of Medical Anthropology, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Professor, Social Anthropology Program, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University.
Michael M.J. Fischer, Professor of Anthropology and Science, Technology, and Society (STS), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Lecturer, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School.
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Abstract:
Dr. Sadruddin is a medical anthropologist whose research focuses on issues of demographic transitions and socio-political recovery in the wake of violence in contemporary Africa. Since 2014, she has conducted research on the processes and politics of aging in post-genocide Rwanda. Her academic writing has been published in Anthropology Now, Medical Anthropology, and Social Science & Medicine. Prior to joining the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Sadruddin completed a Predoctoral Fellowship in the Department of Anthropology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She graduated with a Ph.D. in Anthropology from Yale University in October 2020.
