Sahar Sadjadi, visiting assistant professor and Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Committee for Interdisciplinary Science Studies, the Graduate Center, CUNY. Dr. Sadjadi is an anthropologist and medical doctor whose research lies at the intersection of science and technology, gender and  sexuality, and childhood studies. She studied medicine at Tehran University of Medical Sciences, worked as an emergency room physician, and completed her Ph.D. in medical anthropology at Columbia University. Her work has been funded by the Wenner-Gren Foundation and the National Science Foundation.