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Sonia Rupcic
- Visiting Scholar
Sonia Rupcic is a Visiting Scholar of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies at the University of Pittsburgh and a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Population Studies and Training Center at Brown University. She is a medical and legal anthropologist whose scholarship and teaching focus on sex/gender, medical humanitarianism and carceral politics. Her current book project, Incommensurable Violations: Criminal Sex and its Others in Post-Apartheid South Africa, explores how survivors of sexual violence in South Africa are recruited to participate in the policing of rape in a context of ethnoracialized legal pluralism. It focuses on the different ways injury is conceptualized during the course of state medico-legal activities.
In South Africa and the United States, Sonia has worked in the field of survivor advocacy since 2004.
Education & Training
- PhD, Anthropology, University of Michigan, 2020
- MPH, Public Health, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, 2011
- BA, University of Chicago, 2004
Representative Publications
Rupcic, S. (2021). Mens Daemonica: Guilt, Justice, and the Occult in South Africa. Comparative Studies in Society and History, 63(3), 599–624. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0010417521000165
Rupcic, S. (2013). Rights rhetoric or rights realization: Victim empowerment NGOs in South Africa. Ethnography, 14(4), 452–476. https://doi.org/10.1177/1466138112457294
Research Interests
Sex/Gender
Transnational Feminisms
Sexual Violence
Medical Anthropology
Legal Anthropology
Medical Humanitarianism
Carceral States