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Saida Hodžić is an Associate Professor at Cornell University's College of Arts and Sciences, holding joint appointments in the Department of Anthropology and the Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program. Her ethnographic and theoretical work bridges medical anthropology, feminist theory, and postcolonial critique through studies of women's rights activism in Ghana, refugee experiences in Europe and the U.S., and post-war environmental activism in Bosnia-Herzegovina. She has received multiple scholarly accolades including the Michelle Rosaldo Book Prize and Amaury Talbot Prize.
- PhD in Medical Anthropology (UC Berkeley/UCSF)
- MA in Sociocultural Anthropology (University of Cologne)
- Designated Emphasis in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (UC Berkeley)
Her research reconfigures biopolitical analysis through three key domains: (1) Deconstructing humanitarian epistemologies via WHO studies and Ghanaian anti-cutting campaigns; (2) Developing "slow harm" theory to analyze neoliberal governance's bodily impacts; (3) Reimagining refugee studies through autoethnographic perspectives on displaced persons' agency. Current projects examine Bosnian weapons factory legacies and transnational feminist narratives.
Scientific awards include:
- Michelle Rosaldo Book Prize (2017)
- Amaury Talbot Prize (2017)
- Harry Frank Guggenheim Research Grant
- Robert & Helen Appel Fellowship
- Diane Forsythe Dissertation Award
- Rosenthal Advancement Award
Pioneering courses like "Humanitarian Affects" and "How to Study Human Rights Violations", she trains students in critical theory through empirical analysis of medical interventions, gender politics, and global governance mechanisms. Her collaborative workshop "Displaced, Detained, Undeterred" reorients refugee studies through former refugee perspectives.
