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Katrina Karkazis
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Karkazis at Schulich School of Law in 2018
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| Born | 1970 |
| Nationality | American, Greek |
| Alma mater | Columbia University |
| Awards | Guggenheim Fellowship (2016) |
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| Fields | Anthropology and bioethics |
| Institutions | Amherst College, Stanford University, Honors Academy Brooklyn College, Emory University |
| Thesis | (2002) |
| Doctoral advisor | Carole S. Vance |
| Other academic advisors | Sherry B. Ortner, Shirley Lindenbaum, Lesley Sharp, E. Valentine Daniel |
Katrina Alicia Karkazis (born 1970) is an American anthropologist and bioethicist. She is a professor of Sexuality, Women's and Gender Studies at Amherst College. She was previously the Carol Zicklin Endowed Chair in the Honors Academy at Brooklyn College, City University of New York and a senior research fellow with the Global Health Justice Partnership at Yale University. In 2016, she was jointly awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship with Rebecca Jordan-Young.
Career
Katrina Karkazis received her PhD in medical and cultural anthropology, and a Masters in Public Health in maternal and child health, from Columbia University. She has an undergraduate degree in Public Policy from Occidental College. Karkazis completed postdoctoral training in empirical bioethics at Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics. After spending 15 years at Stanford, she was the Carol Zicklin Endowed Chair in the Honors Academy at Brooklyn College, City University of New York. She has been a visiting professor at Emory University and is currently a Senior Visiting Fellow with the Global Health Justice Partnership at Yale University.
In 2008, Karkazis published her first book, Fixing Sex. Since the publication of Fixing Sex and co-authoring a 2012 journal article on sex testing in sport, Out of Bounds, Karkazis has widely written and been quoted as an expert on issues of informed consent, bodily diversity, testosterone, and access to sport. Media coverage of sport issues includes American Association for the Advancement of Science, The Guardian, Los Angeles Times, New Scientist, New York Times and Time, often in collaboration with Rebecca Jordan-Young.
In 2015, Karkazis testified before the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in the case of Dutee Chand v. Athletics Federation of India (AFI) & The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), and in July 2015 the CAS issued a decision to suspend its sex verification policy on excluding women athletes with hyperandrogenism (high levels of testosterone) due to insufficient evidence of a link between high androgen levels and improved athletic performance. The court allowed two further years for convincing evidence to be submitted by the IAAF, after which the regulation will be automatically revoked if evidence has not been provided.
In 2016, Karkazis was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to work on a book on testosterone, Testosterone: An Unauthorized Biography, published by Harvard University Press in 2019 and written with Rebecca Jordan-Young. In 2018, Karkazis wrote in The New York Review of Books that "T has become a powerful technology for the production of subjectivity, the most consequential of which is gender."
