Assistant Professor/Postdoctoral Fellow
avinea@umich.edu
Office Information:
202 South Thayer Street, Suite 4048, Ann Arbor, MI 48104-1608
phone: 734.764.3932
Center for Middle Eastern & North African Studies;
CMENAS Faculty;
GISC Faculty;
Global Islamic Studies Center
Education/Degree:
PhD, City University of New York; MA, American University in Cairo; BA, University of Arts, Bucharest, Romania
About
Ana Vinea is a postdoctoral fellow at the Michigan Society of Fellows and an assistant professor in the Department of Near Eastern Studies. She is an anthropologist working at the intersection of medical anthropology and the anthropology of Islam with a particular interest in the intersections and entanglements of the scientific and the religious, as manifested in the sphere of healing and (mental) health. Her current book project, Contemporary Egyptian Landscape of Healing between Qur’anic Healing and Psychiatry, approaches this topic through an ethnographic study of the emergence and constitution of Qur’anic healing—a revivalist, Salafi-oriented therapy for jinn possession and sorcery through exorcism—in contemporary Egypt and of the debates it has stirred, especially among psychiatrists.
Field(s) of Study
- Healing
- Psychiatry
- Science and Medicine
- Possession
- Islam
- Contemporary Middle East
- Egypt
