User:Diane Tober, PhD

Diane Tober is an American Anthropologist. She received her PhD from University of California, Berkeley in 1999. Her earlier work explores how lay perceptions of genetics influences donor choice among people using donor sperm and egg to create a family. For this work, she was a Social Science Research Council Post-Doctoral Fellow. She has also had a focus on Iran and the Middle East throughout her career. In 2002, while a Faculty Researcher at University of California, San Francisco, she conducted research in Iran with Afghan refugees and low-income Iranians, exploring the perceptions and use of family planning, as well as other topics related to life in Iran. Her main focus is on displaced and marginalized communities, including Afghan refugees, Iranian immigrants, and Palestinians. She has numerous publications of her work, including edited volumes on Islam, Health and the Body: Science and Religion in the Modern Muslim World (2007, Sage Press), Afghan Refugees and Returnees: Culture and Survival in the Face of War, Violence and Dislocation. (2007, Journal of Iranian Studies).