Margaret Lock

Margaret Lock is Marjorie Bronfman Professor Emerita in the Department of Social Studies of Medicine and the Department of Anthropology at McGill University. Her internationally recognized research focuses on an anthropology of the body, comparative epistemologies of medical knowledge, and the global impact of emerging biomedical technologies. Currently she is researching the post-genomic era and the social and political impact of the knowledge emerging in the burgeoning science of epigenetics. Lock is the author and/or co-editor of 17 books and has published over 200 scholarly articles. Her monograph Encounters with Aging: Mythologies of Menopause in Japan and North America won six prizes. Twice Dead: Organ Transplants and the Reinvention of Death, The Alzheimer Conundrum: Entanglements of Dementia and Aging, and the co-authored An Anthropology of Biomedicine are also award-winning volumes. Lock is an Officier de L’Ordre national du Québec, a recipient of the Canada Council for the Arts Molson and Killam Prizes, and a Trudeau Foundation Fellowship. She was awarded the Gold Medal for Research by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, in 2011 she received The McGill Medal for Exceptional Academic Achievement and in 2015 was elected into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Since 2010 she has been an Officer of the Order of Canada.