Marcia Inhorn
Marcia C. Inhorn is Associate Professor in the Department of Health Behavior and Health Education (School of Public Health), International Institute, and the Department of Anthropology at the University of Michigan. A medical anthropologist with additional training in epidemiology, Dr. Inhorn's primary research interests are in the areas of gender and health in the Middle East. Her major research project examines the plight of infertile women and men in urban Egypt. She has written two books on this subject, Quest for Conception: Gender, Infertility, and Egyptian Medical Traditions (1994) and Infertility and Patriarchy: The Politics of Gender and Family Life in Egypt (1996), both published by University of Pennsylvania Press. Quest for Conception won the Society for Medical Anthropology's Eileen Basker Prize for outstanding research in the area of gender and health, and was a runner-up for the Wellcome Medal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. Currently, Dr. Inhorn is completing a book titled Egyptian Mothers of Test-tube Babies: Gender, Islam, and the Globalization of New Reproductive Technologies, which examines the global spread of new reproductive technologies to the Middle East. She is also coeditor, with Frank van Balen, of a forthcoming anthology on Infertility Around the Globe: New Thinking on Childlessness, Gender, and Reproductive Technologies (University of California Press, 2001).
In the 2002-2003 academic year, Dr. Inhorn plans to undertake research on "Middle Eastern Masculinities in the Age of New Reproductive Technologies," comparing infertile men's experiences in Damascus, Syria; Cairo, Egypt; and "Arab Detroit."

Jonathan Metzl
Jonathan M. Metzl, MD, PhD, is the Director of the Program in Culture, Health, and Medicine. Dr Metzl is a joint-appointed Assistant Professor in Psychiatry and Women's Studies at UM. His reseach interests explore the interactions between psychiatry, gender, and culture.
Dr. Metzl is a nationally known expert on gender representations in antidepressant advertisements; his current project examines the impact of these advertisements on doctor-patient interactions. In addition, he is completing work on a history of psychotropic medications from 1950-2001, as told through medical literature as well as American popular culture. Dr. Metzl also teaches courses at the undergraduate and graduate level, including "Men's Health," the "Cultural Histories of Depression," and "Medicine and Literature."

Mary Piontek
Mary Piontek is the Evaluation Researcher at the Center for Research on Learning and Teaching (CRLT) and is serving as the evaluation consultant for the Program in Culture, Health, and Medicine. She holds a B.A. and M.A. in English Literature and a Ph.D. in Measurement, Research, and Evaluation. She has considerable experience doing evaluation in educational settings and has consulted with foundations, public schools and districts, institutions of higher education, and organizations on program evaluation and educational research issues. At CRLT, Dr. Piontek works with UM faculty, departments, and colleges/units/schools that need assistance assessing the effectiveness of initiatives to improve teaching and learning. Her publications include co-author of Evaluation Strategies for Communicating and Reporting: Enhancing Learning in Organizations (Sage, 1996)

Steve Rachman
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Stephen Rachman is Associate Professor of English and Director of the American Studies Program at Michigan State University. He is the author of the forthcoming study "Cultural Pathology: Disease and Literature in Nineteenth Century America" and the co-editor of The American Face of Edgar Allan Poe (Johns Hopkins 1995). He has written many articles on literature and medicine and is completing a study of nineteenth century British physician, John Snow.

Sidonie Smith
Sidonie Smith is Professor of English and Women's Studies at the University of Michigan. Her books include Moving Lives: Twentieth Century Women's Travel Narratives (University of Minnesota Press 2001); Subjectivity, Identity, and the Body: Women's Autobiographical Practices in the Twentieth Century (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993); A Poetics of Women's Autobiography: Marginality and the Fictions of Self-Representation (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1987); Where I'm Bound: Patterns of Slavery and Freedom in Black American Autobiography (Westport: Greenwood Press, 1974).
Most recently, she co-edited The Olympics at the Millenium: Power, Politics, and the Games (with Kay Schaffer, Rutgers University Press 2000); Women, Autobiography, Theory: A Reader (with Julia Watson, University of Wisconsin Press, 1998); Writing New Identities: Gender, Nation, and Immigration in Contemporary Europe (with Gisela Brinker-Gabler, University of Minnesota Press, 1997); Getting a Life: Everyday Uses of Autobiography (with Julia Watson, University of Minnesota Press, 1996).

Silke-Maria Weineck
Silke-Maria Weineck (Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania) is interested in the constellation of aesthetics, philosophy, literature, and life sciences. She currently teaches German and Comparative Literature at the University of Michigan. Before she came to Michigan, she worked as a Senior Researcher in the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania. Her first book, The Abyss Above: The Philosophy of Poetic Madness in Plato, Hölderlin, and Nietzsche is forthcoming with SUNY Press in 2002. She has published articles on Plato, Celan, Nietzsche, Hölderlin, Shelley, Büchner, and decadence. Her current work in progress, tentatively entitled The Laius Syndrome: Essays in Paternity, concerns the interplay of biology, ideology, and aesthetics in concepts of fatherhood, especially but not only during the European fin-de-siecle. At the University of Michigan, she has organized a series of 20 lectures concerning "The Body and Its Disciplines"; she teaches Literature for Psychologists within the Seeing the Body Elsewise program.