Ana Vinea is a cultural anthropologist of the Middle East with general research and teaching interests in medicine, occult practices, and visual culture. Her current research examines debates between psychiatry and Islamic healing around notions of affliction, health, and cure in todays Egypt. She holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology from the Graduate Center of the City University in New York. Before joining UNC she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Michigan Society of Fellow, University of Michigan.