Sarah S. Willen

Sarah S. Willen is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Connecticut and Director of the Research Program on Global Health and Human Rights at UConn’s Human Rights Institute. Her research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, Fulbright-Hays, the Social Science Research Council, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, among other sources, and she has published in the Lancet, Harvard Review of Psychiatry, Social Science & Medicine, Medical Anthropology Quarterly, and International Migration, among other venues. Her book, Fighting for Dignity: Migrant Lives at Israel Margins (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019), garnered multiple awards, including the Edie Turner First Book Prize in Ethnographic Writing (Society for Humanistic Anthropology), the Stirling Prize (Society for Psychological Anthropology), and the Yonathan Shapiro Prize (Association for Israel Studies) and was Finalist for a Jordan Schnitzer Award in Social Science, Anthropology, and Folklore (Association for Jewish Studies).