Lesley Sharp

Lesley Sharp is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Barnard College. She is the author of The Possessed and the Dispossessed. Spirits, Identity, and Power in a Madagascar Migrant Town and The Sacrificed Generation: Youth, History, and the Colonized Mind in Madagascar as well as numerous articles on organ transplantation in the United States. A medical anthropologist by training, she considers herself first and foremost an ethnographer, entrenched fully in a tradition Mead helped to establish in North American Anthropology.