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Sarah Lamb is a Professor of Anthropology and Barbara Mandel Professor of Humanistic Social Sciences at Brandeis University, affiliated with the School of Arts and Sciences. She holds joint appointments in the Departments of Anthropology and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, and is a member of interdisciplinary programs in South Asian Studies, Religious Studies, and Health: Science, Society, and Policy. Her research focuses on aging, gender, religion, and medical anthropology, with fieldwork conducted in India and among Indian immigrant communities in the U.S.
Lamb earned a B.A. in Religious Studies from Brown University and a Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Chicago. She completed postdoctoral training in medical anthropology and gerontology at the University of California, San Francisco.
Her research explores how people construct social and cultural identities through practices related to aging, gender, and the body. Key areas include ‘successful aging’ as a global cultural project,单身女性的生活经验 in India, and transnational family dynamics. She has authored influential books like White Saris and Sweet Mangoes: Aging, Gender, and Body in India (2000) and Being Single in India (2022).
Lamb has received prestigious grants including the Andrew Carnegie Fellowship (2019-2023) and the Lewis Henry Morgan Lectureship (2022). Her work has been recognized with awards such as the Lerman-Neubauer Prize for Teaching Excellence and the Marver and Sheva Bernstein Faculty Fellowship at Brandeis.
She teaches courses on anthropological theory, gender studies, and research methods. Her current research examines global discourses on aging and their intersection with class and cultural values. Lamb also directs the Global Perspectives on Aging book series at Rutgers University Press.