Farha Ghannam is Professor of Anthropology at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania. Her research and teaching interests include urban life, spatial practices, embodiment, gender, food and taste, and class politics. Ghannam is the author of Live and Die like a Man: Gender Dynamics in Urban Egypt (Stanford 2013) and Remaking the Modern: Space, Relocation, and the Politics of Identity in a Global Cairo (California 2002). Currently, she is completing a book entitled "The Gender of Class: Ethics of Care and Social Inequalities in Urban Egypt." In addition, she is conducting ethnographic research on food, gender, and class in Jordan.
Her work has appeared in several journals including the American Ethnologist, Visual Anthropology, the Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, City and Society, and Ethnos. She is the past president of the Middle East Section of the American Anthropological Association and the Association of Middle East Anthropology. She is the recipient of the Distinguished Scholar Award from the American Anthropological Association (AAA)'s Middle East Section and the 2022 national American Anthropological Association Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching of Anthropology.
