# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/suad-joseph
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:58:12.380Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/suad-joseph"
name: "Suad Joseph"
slug: "suad-joseph"
description: "Suad Joseph received her doctorate in anthropology from Columbia University in 1975. Dr. Joseph is Professor of Anthropology and Women and Gender Studies at the University of California, Davis and in 2009 was President of the Middle East Studies Association of North America. Her research addresses issues of gender; families, children, and youth; sociology of the family; and selfhood, citizenship, and the state in the Middle East, with a focus on her native Lebanon. Her earlier work focused on the politicization of religion in Lebanon. Joseph is the founder of the Middle East Research Group in Anthropology, the founder and coordinator of the Arab Families Working Group, the founder of the Association for Middle East Women's Studies, the general editor of the Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures, and the founding director of the Middle East/South Asian Studies Program at the University of California at Davis. She is also the founder and facilitator of a six-university consortium of the American University of Beirut, American University in Cairo, Lebanese American University, University of California at Davis, and Birzeit University Consortium."
tagline: "American anthropologist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Dr._Suad_Joseph.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "academics"
profileType:
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birthDate: "1943-09-06"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump