Ellen Amster

Overview

Ellen Amster focuses on public health and the encounters between western and Islamic medicines. She seeks to understand aging through a Humanities and Social Science lens, and uses qualitative and mixed research methods to study the social, cultural, and political aspects of health, gender, and sexuality in Morocco. She has worked closely with older adults in Morocco, where she created a “determinants of health” field study program. She is an expert on transnational health issues and the social history of biomedicine.

Affiliations

• Associate Professor
• Associate Professor, Religious Studies
• Associate Professor, Family Medicine

Education

• BA, University of Chicago
• MA, University of Pennsylvania
• PhD, University of Pennsylvania