Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Merav Shohet integrates psychological, medical, linguistic, and sociocultural anthropology in a range of research projects focusing on care, affect, ethics, and gender in relation to illness, narrative, and kinship in North America, Vietnam, and most recently, Palestine/Israel. She is the author of Silence and Sacrifice: Family Stories of Care and the Limits of Love in Vietnam (University of California Press 2021), and articles in American Anthropologist, American Ethnologist, Ethos, and the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, among others. Two of her current projects include a study of stigma, suffering, and resilience among end-stage kidney disease patients in disenfranchised Boston area communities during the COVID-19 pandemic and a longitudinal study of aging, end-of-life care, and inequality in Israel’s transforming kibbutzim.