Ellen Gruenbaum was a professor and chair of the Anthropology Department at Purdue University.
16 Facts About Ellen Gruenbaum
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Ellen Gruenbaum has served as a professor in the department of anthropology, director of the Women's Studies Program and dean of the College of Social Sciences at California State University, Fresno.
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Ellen Gruenbaum has worked at California State University, San Bernardino, University of Wisconsin in Manitowoc, and the University of Khartoum, Sudan.
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Ellen Gruenbaum teaches cultural anthropology coursed that cover religion, gender, health, and post-colonial situations in Africa and the Middle East.
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Ellen Gruenbaum is on the editorial advisory board for the Journal of Middle East Women's Studies.
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Ellen Gruenbaum's specialization is medical anthropology with a focus on culturally oriented issues, particularly in Africa and the Middle East.
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Ellen Gruenbaum conducted research in Sierra Leone between 2007 and 2008.
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Ellen Gruenbaum's research focuses on practices relating to female genital cutting, women's health in rural African and Middle Eastern contexts, and child protection and human rights movements.
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Ellen Gruenbaum has written several works, including The Female Circumcision Controversy: An Anthropological Perspective, A Study of Social Services in Gezira Province, A Movement Against Clitoridectomy and Infibulation in Sudan, Nuer Women in Southern Sudan, and Development Schemes, Cultural Debates, and Rural Women's Health in Sudan.
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Ellen Gruenbaum served as the secretary of the Society for Medical Anthropology from 2006 until 2009 and is on the editorial advisory board of the Journal of Middle East Women's Studies.
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Ellen Gruenbaum is a member of the American Anthropological Association and has memberships in the Association for Africanist Anthropology, Association for Feminist Anthropology, Middle East Section, and Society for Medical Anthropology.
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Ellen Gruenbaum has worked with another Purdue professor, Sophie A Lelievre, in Ghana to research cultural aspects of policy decisions related to breast health in many countries, including Ghana, Lebanon, France, Japan, and Uruguay.
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Ellen Gruenbaum considers her greatest achievement in her career to be working with UNICEF in 2004, when she was able to conduct research and advocate social marketing for the involvement of girls in female genital cutting and circumcision.
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Ellen Gruenbaum worked as a research consultant for CARE studying traditional health practices.
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Ellen Gruenbaum is best known for her book The Female Circumcision Controversy.
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Ellen Gruenbaum has written a number of articles that reflect her work in Sudan, including:.