Shirley Lindenbaum is notable for her medical anthropological work on kuru in Papua New Guinea, HIV/AIDS in the United States of America, and cholera in Bangladesh.Beginning in 1972, she taught cultural anthropology at the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research in New York, before accepting a professorship at the City University of New York. Admired by her colleagues and students, Lindenbaum was the editor of the international journal "American Ethnologist" (1984-1989), and later served as Book Review Editor for "Anthropology Now" (2010-2013). Professor Lindenbaum is currently living in NY and is emerita professor of the Graduate Division of the City University of New York.