Dr. Victoria M. Massie (Pronouns: she/her/hers) is currently an Assistant Professor of Medical Anthropology at Rice University. She is also a Faculty Affiliate for the Center for African & African American Studies, the Medical Humanities Program, the Center for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, and the Science & Technology Studies Program. Her research and teaching broadly explore issues of biovalue, racialization, chronicity, Black feminist science studies, and the history of anthropological thought with an acute attention to experimenting with ethnographic form.

Her research has received generous support from the National Science Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, the Fulbright Foundation, and the Wenner-Gren Foundation, amongst others. She has also been recognized for her work as a creative writer. She was a 2019 Hurston/Wright Foundation Fellow for Nonfiction Writing and a 2023 VONA Fellow for Fiction and Poetry. 

Dr. Massie is also committed to engaging her work outside of academia. She has worked as a journalist and Communications Coordinator for the Center for Genetics & Society. She has also presented her work at venues ranging from Black Women for Wellness in Los Angeles, CA, the Crick Institute in London, UK, and the Menil Collection in Houston, TX.  

Dr. Massie received her Ph.D. in Sociocultural Anthropology with a designated emphasis in Science & Technology Studies and M.A. in Anthropology from UC Berkeley, and her B.A. in Anthropology and African & African American Studies from the University of Rochester.

To contact Dr. Massie, please use the following email: Victoria [dot] Massie [at] rice [dot] edu