Jane Leslie Saffitz is an Assistant Professor of Cultural and Medical Anthropology at Denison University in Granville, Ohio. Her research focuses on contested bodies as they are taken up in diverse projects within and beyond biomedicine, including justice-based movements for minoritized groups in the Global South. Saffitz’s first project examines albinism in Tanzania, as both a genetic condition and category that exceeds biomedicine. Her book manuscript, Lightness and Alterity, traces of the collapse of practices ordinarily separated as violent or humanitarian, spiritual or scientific, inscrutable or manifest, and, in their wake, makes the case for a semiotic approach to unruly bodies and categories. Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, Fulbright-Hays Program, Wenner-Gren Foundation, University of California, and Denison University. Her latest article, “Realms Unseen,” was published in American Ethnologist. Prior to serving on the SMA Executive Board, she chaired the SMA’s Complementary and Alternative Medicine and Integrative Medicine (CAM/IM) Interest Group.