Author Bio Sandra Fahy

Author Bio







Sandra Fahy

Sandra Fahy earned her PhD in Anthropology at SOAS, University of London in 2009. She held post-doctoral fellowships at EHESS in Paris and USC in Los Angeles, before taking up a position in Anthropology at Sophia University in 2013. 

Her first book Marching through Suffering: Loss and Survival in North Korea (Columbia University Press, 2015) examines how North Korean famine survivors understood the food crisis and concomitant political violence. In addition to several peer-review academic articles, she also has also written policy recommendation pieces on humanitarian preparedness for internal migration in North Korea (Asia Policy, 2015) and rights-based approaches to health in the DPRK (Harvard Journal of Health and Human Rights, 2016). She is finishing a second book about Human Rights and North Korea.

ANALYSIS04 OCTOBER
BY SANDRA FAHY

Pathology politics: Human rights and health in North Korea

In North Korea, the right to health is directly linked to politics. This is well illustrated in the rights of migrants and prisoners, where the connection between TB and multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB) and human rights is an underreported - and underexamined - issue. The most egregious of these violations is the system of prison camps throughout the country, and there exists a clear link betw...


ANALYSIS14 SEPTEMBER
BY SANDRA FAHY

DPRK lies and videotape: North Korea’s “investigative” journalism