Miriam Ticktin

Miriam Ticktin is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs at the New School for Social Research. She received a Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology from Stanford University in 2002, and a Ph.D. in Medical Anthropology in “co-tutelle” with the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in France, also in 2002. She has published on topics such as the politics and ethics of medical humanitarianism, immigration and asylum-claims in Europe, the role gender and sexual violence play in the context of immigration, and how suffering figures in legal claims. Her work appears in journals such as in Signs: Journal of Women and Culture in Society; American Ethnologist; Interventions: International journal of postcolonial studies; Ethnicities; and PoLAR (Political and Legal Anthropology Review) and in various edited volumes. Her co-edited volume, “Government and Humanity” is forthcoming with Duke University Press, and she is currently completing her manuscript entitled, “Between Justice and Compassion: The Politics of Immigration and Humanitarianism in France” about the fight for social justice of undocumented immigrants in France.