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Zahra Hayat is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia (Vancouver), affiliated with the Department of Anthropology under the Faculty of Arts. She holds a PhD in Anthropology from UC Berkeley (2022) and is a Rhodes Scholar with degrees from Oxford and Yale Law School. Her research focuses on pharmaceutical capitalism, intellectual property, and law, particularly in Pakistan. She is currently a Harvard Academy Postdoctoral Fellow (2024-26).
Education: PhD in Anthropology, UC Berkeley (2022); LL.M., Yale Law School (2010); BA in Jurisprudence (Rhodes Scholar), University of Oxford (2007); LL.B., Lahore University of Management Sciences (2005).
Research interests include geopolitical pharmaceutical political economies, medical ethics, and legal advocacy for marginalized communities. Her book manuscript Scandal in a Spectral Place examines drug access crises in Pakistan. She teaches courses like The Capitalist Lives of Pharmaceuticals and Medical Anthropology and Law, integrating film and legal texts into pedagogy.
Awards include the Pirzada Prize (best dissertation on Pakistan), AAUW Fellowship, and multiple grants from Wenner-Gren and SSRC. She has prior legal experience in intellectual property litigation and public interest advocacy, including work with foster care children and asylum seekers.
