Sherine Hamdy is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California Irvine, where she joined the faculty in 2017. Before that she was Associate Professor at Brown University, where she began teaching in 2006. Hamdy is author of Our Bodies Belong to God: Organ Transplants, Islam, and the Struggle for Human Dignity (UC Press 2012) and co-author with Coleman Nye of Lissa: a story of friendship, medical promise, and revolution (U Toronto Press 2017, illustrated by Caroline Brewer and Sarula Bao). She is interested in the Middle East, contemporary Muslim ethics, the political economy of health, medical anthropology, the history of Arabs and Muslims in the U.S., and the use of creative writing, fiction, comics, and other visual media in academic scholarship.