Dr. Morgan Clarke: Curriculum Vitae and Publications
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS AND QUALIFICATIONS
2011- present University Lecturer in Social Anthropology and Tutorial Fellow at Keble College, University of Oxford.
2009-2011 Simon Research Fellow, Department of Middle Eastern Studies, University of Manchester.
2006-2009 British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge.
2006 DPhil (Social Anthropology), University of Oxford.
PUBLICATIONS
Books
2009 Islam and new kinship: reproductive technology and the shariah in Lebanon. Oxford and New York: Berghahn Books.
Articles
2014 Cough sweets and angels: the ordinary ethics of the extraordinary in Sufi practice in Lebanon. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (N.S.) 20(3): 407-425.
2013 Integrity and commitment in the anthropology of Islam. In Articulating Islam: anthropological approaches to Muslim worlds (eds.) M. Marsden and K. Retsikas. New York: Springer.
2012 Islamic bioethics and religious politics in Lebanon. In Islam and assisted reproductive technologies: Sunni and Shia perspectives (eds.) M. Inhorn and S. Tremayne. Oxford and New York: Berghahn Books.
2012 The judge as tragic hero: judicial ethics in Lebanon’s shari‘a courts. American Ethnologist 39(1): 106-121.
2011 (Co-authored with Marcia Inhorn.) Mutuality and immediacy between marja‘ and muqallid: evidence from male IVF patients in Shi‘i Lebanon. International Journal of Middle East Studies 43(3): 409-427.
2011 Science and social change. In A Companion to Muslim cultures (ed.) A. Sajoo. London: I.B. Tauris.
2010 Neo-calligraphy: religious authority and media technology in Contemporary Shiite Islam. Comparative Studies in Society and History 52(2): 351-383.
2008 New kinship, Islam and the liberal tradition: sexual morality and new reproductive technology in Lebanon. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 14(1): 153-169.
2008 Sjiitische perspectieven op nieuwe voortplantingstechnologieën. In Een keuze uit 10 jaar ISIM Review, 80-85. Leiden: The International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World (Dutch translation of ‘Shiite perspectives on kinship and new reproductive technology’).
2008 Children of the revolution: Ayatollah Khamene’i’s ‘liberal’ views on in vitro fertilisation. In Iranian intellectuals: 1997-2007 (ed.) L. Ridgeon, 27-43. London: Routledge (reprint of BJMES article below).
2007 The modernity of milk kinship. Social Anthropology 15(3): 1-18.
2007 Closeness in the age of mechanical reproduction: debating kinship and biomedicine in Lebanon and the Middle East. Anthropological Quarterly 80(2): 379-402.
2007 Children of the revolution: Ayatollah Khamene’i’s ‘liberal’ views on in vitro fertilisation. British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies 34(3): 287-303.
2007 Kinship, propriety and assisted reproduction in the Middle East. Anthropology of the Middle East 2(1): 71-91.
2006 Islam, kinship, and new reproductive technology. Anthropology Today 22(5): 17-20.
2006 Shiite perspectives on kinship and new reproductive technology. Review of the International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World 17: 26-7.