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Lesley A. Sharp

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Lesley A. Sharp
AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship (2020)
Academic background
Education
Academic work
DisciplineAnthropology
Sub-disciplineMedical anthropology
Institutions

Lesley A. Sharp is an American medical anthropologist. She is the Barbara Chamberlain & Helen Chamberlain Josefsberg ’30 Professor of Anthropology at Barnard College.[1]

Biography

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Sharp earned her B.A. from Brandeis University, M.A. from the University of California, Berkeley, and a joint Ph.D. in medical anthropology from Berkeley and the University of California, San Francisco.[1] She taught at Butler University before joining Barnard's faculty.

Sharp's early research focused on the daily and economic struggles of migrants and locals in a plantation economy in Northwestern Madagascar.[1] Since 1990, her work has focused on the ethical and moral consequences of innovative medicine and science, especially in the organ transplantation industry, and human-animal relations in experimental laboratory research.[2]

Sharp earned a Guggenheim Fellowship in anthropology and cultural studies in 2020.[3] She also received the Wellcome Medal for Anthropology as Applied to Medical Problems in 2018 from the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland.[4][5]

References

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  1. ^ a b c "Lesley A Sharp | Barnard College". barnard.edu. Retrieved 2023-03-30.
  2. ^ Keim, Brandon (2023-01-23). "What Do We Owe Lab Animals?". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-03-30.
  3. ^ "Lesley A. Sharp". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved 2023-03-30.
  4. ^ "Lesley Sharp awarded the RAI Wellcome Medal | Department of Anthropology". anthropology.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2023-03-30.
  5. ^ "The Wellcome Medal for Research in Anthropology as Applied to Medical Problems Past Awards". Royal Anthropological Institute. Retrieved 2023-03-30.