Lesley A. Sharp
American anthropologist
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Lesley A. Sharp is an American medical anthropologist. She is the Barbara Chamberlain & Helen Chamberlain Josefsberg ’30 Professor of Anthropology at Barnard College.[1]
Lesley A. Sharp | |
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| Awards | Guggenheim Fellowship (2020) |
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| Discipline | Anthropology |
| Sub-discipline | Medical anthropology |
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Biography
Sharp earned her B.A. from Brandeis University, M.A. from the University of California, Berkeley, and a joint Ph.D. in medical anthropology from Berkeley and the University of California, San Francisco.[1] She taught at Butler University before joining Barnard's faculty.
Sharp's early research focused on the daily and economic struggles of migrants and locals in a plantation economy in Northwestern Madagascar.[1] Since 1990, her work has focused on the ethical and moral consequences of innovative medicine and science, especially in the organ transplantation industry, and human-animal relations in experimental laboratory research.[2]
Sharp earned a Guggenheim Fellowship in anthropology and cultural studies in 2020.[3] She also received the Wellcome Medal for Anthropology as Applied to Medical Problems in 2018 from the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland.[4][5]