Marcia Inhorn recognized for outstanding career by Association for Feminist Anthropology

Marcia Inhorn, William K. Lanman Jr. Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs, has been awarded the 2025 Association for Feminist Anthropology Career Award. 

Inhorn received the award from the Association for Feminist Anthropology (AFA), a section of the American Anthropological Association (AAA), in honor of her lifetime accomplishments as a feminist anthropologist.  

As one nominator wrote, Inhorn’s three-decade career “epitomizes the transformative power of feminist anthropology, blending rigorous scholarship with a steadfast commitment to public engagement.”

Inhorn has written seven solo-authored books, 14 co-edited books, and dozens of articles about gender, reproduction, global health, and science and technology. She has helped shape the way anthropologists and the public think about masculinity, (in)fertility, reproductive technologies, Middle Eastern studies, and other topics. 

Inhorn’s work and service are highly interdisciplinary: she is affiliated with the Yale School of Public Health, Yale's Women's Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program, the Yale Institute for Global Health, and the Council on Middle East Studies in Yale’s Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies.

Her scholarship and service have garnered Inhorn numerous prizes, including the Robert B. Textor and Family Prize for Excellence in Anticipatory Anthropology (2015), the Diana Forsythe Prize for Outstanding Feminist Anthropological Research on Work, Science, and Technology (2003), and the Eileen Basker Memorial Prize for Outstanding Research on Gender and Health (1994), among others.

She is also committed to sharing her scholarship with the public. Her most recent book, Motherhood on Ice: The Mating Gap and Why Women Freeze Their Eggs (NYU Press, 2023), has been widely covered in the media and was recently reviewed in the New York Review of Books. Inhorn has also participated in policymaking, acting as a consultant to and committee member of numerous national and international committees and organizations, including advising the World Health Organization on infertility and assisted reproductive technologies.  

Inhorn is a dedicated teacher and mentor, having served on more than a hundred senior essay and dissertation committees during her career thus far. She earned Yale’s Graduate Mentor Award in 2023 and the MASA Graduate Student Mentor Award in 2013.

Inhorn joined Yale’s faculty in 2008 as the William K. Lanman Jr. Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs after spending the beginning of her career at the University of Arizona, Emory University, and the University of Michigan. 
Winners of the AFA’s 2025 awards will be celebrated at the AAA meeting on November 22, 2025.