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Faye Ginsburg is the David B. Kriser Professor of Anthropology at New York University, where she is the founding and ongoing Director of the Center for Media, Culture, and History as well as the interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Culture and Media; founding co-director of the Center for Disability Studies. She is widely known for her groundbreaking research on how cultural activists transform their worlds, including women on both sides of the abortion debate, her research, writing, and activism with Indigenous media makers, and, most recently, with disability justice advocates.

Ginsburg has published ethnographies about her fieldwork experiences in the U.S., Canada, and Australia. Her work over the years as a filmmaker, writer and curator has focused on movements for social transformation, and the key role played by cultural activists in these processes, from her multiple award-winning book, Contested Lives: The Abortion Debate in an American Community, to her several edited collections on reproduction and gender, to her groundbreaking collection, Media Worlds: Anthropology on New Terrain. She has explored the lives and work of Indigenous media makers in Australia, Brazil, Canada, and New Zealand, whose work she has written about, supported, and showcased for over three decades. Most recently, she has focused on the lived experiences, struggles, activism, artistry, and remarkable creativity of disabled people in New York City in Disability Worlds (2024), co-authored with Rayna Rapp, and in the co-edited 2025 volume, How to Be Disabled in a Pandemic with Mara Mills, Harris Kornstein, and Rapp. She is a recipient of numerous awards for her work, including research support and Fellowships from the NEH and NSF, as well as the MacArthur, Guggenheim, Spencer, Rockefeller, and Ford Foundations, and support from the Pew Charitable Trusts for the inauguration of the Center for Religion and Media. 

In addition, Ginsburg is also the President of the Familial Dysautonomia Foundation.