Faye Ginsburg
Anthropologist Faye Ginsburg has a number of titles at New York University, where she is the Director of the Center for Media, Culture, and History; the David B. Kriser Professor of Anthropology; founder of the interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Culture and Media; and Co-Director of the Center for Disability Studies. She has devoted her life to the exploration of different cultures and individuals’ styles of life.
Ginsburg has published ethnographies about her fieldwork experiences in the U.S., Canada and Australia. Her work over the years as a filmmaker, writer and curator has focused on movements for social transformation, and the key role played by cultural activists in these processes, from her multiple award winning book, Contested Lives: The Abortion Debate in an American Community, to her several edited collections on reproduction and gender, to her groundbreaking collection, Media Worlds: Anthropology on New Terrain.
She is a recipient of numerous awards for her work including research support and Fellowships from the MacArthur, Guggenheim, Spencer, Rockefeller and Ford Foundations, as well as support from the Pew Charitable Trusts for the inauguration of the Center for Religion and Media.
In addition, Ginsburg is also the President of the Familial Dysautonomia Foundation.