Sameena
Mulla
Anthropologist. Dreamer. Cat Lady.
Sameena Mulla is an Associate Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Emory University. She uses anthropological approaches to examine the intersections of law and health-care in U.S. interventions into sexual violence and policing, and the ways in which they are invested in regimes of gender, race, and power.
Books
In The Violence of Care, Mulla draws on four years of participatory research in a Baltimore emergency room to reveal the realities of sexual assault response in the forensic age. Blending medical and legal anthropology, she analyzes the ways in which nurses work to collect and preserve evidence while addressing the needs of sexual assault victims as patients. Her second book, Bodies in Evidence, a collaboration with Heather Hlavka, follows the evidence into the courts.
