Mitra Emad

Mitra C. Emad
میترا عماد
Education	DePaul University (BA 1987), University of Chicago (MA 1989), Rice University (PhD 1998)
Spouse	David Syring
Parents	Parvis Emad (father) Gertrud Emad (mother)
Scientific career
Fields	anthropology
Institutions	University of Minnesota Duluth
Thesis	Feeling the qi: Emergent bodies and disclosive fields in American appropriations of acupuncture (1998)
Doctoral advisor	Eugenia Georges
Other academic advisors	Kathryn Milun Stephen A. Tyler George Marcus Elizabeth Long

Mitra C. Emad is an American anthropologist and Distinguished University Teaching Professor at the University of Minnesota Duluth. She is known for her works on cultural constructions of the human body. Emad is a recipient of the Horace T. Morse-University of Minnesota Alumni Association Award. She is also an established somatic and yoga educator.

Career

Emad received her BA from DePaul University in 1987 and her MA from the University of Chicago in 1989. She wrote her doctoral dissertation on acupuncture among Americans under the supervision of Eugenia Georges at Rice University in 1998. During her career at the University of Minnesota Duluth, she developed a Participatory Media Lab with David Syring (Professor of Anthropology at UMD).