Dr. Sandra Hyde

Biography

Sandra Teresa Hyde is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at McGill University. She received her Ph.D. in Medical Anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley, in January 2000. Professor Hyde's research centers on the intersection of public health, cultural politics, and critical anthropology, with key areas of focus on epidemics, power, inequality, gender, ethnicity, and sexuality. Her ethnographic work includes a decade-long study in Yunnan Province, China, culminating in her book 'Eating Spring Rice: Cultural Politics of AIDS in Southwest China,' which explores the socio-cultural dynamics surrounding AIDS through the experiences of ethnic minorities and sex workers. Additionally, she co-edited the volume 'Postcolonial Disorders,' addressing the everyday subjectivities and experiences shaped by social and psychological dimensions in diverse contexts. Her current and ongoing projects include an ethnographic study of drug user management within therapeutic communities in Southwest China, and an oral history project documenting the medical experiences of female cohorts from the 1950s at Cambridge University Medical School.

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