A5073637041- Race, Genetics, and Society
- Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics
- Birth, Development, and Health
- Reproductive Health and Technologies
- Pregnancy and preeclampsia studies
- Gender Diversity and Inequality
- Ethics in Clinical Research
- Sex and Gender in Healthcare
- Racial and Ethnic Identity Research
- Educational Assessment and Improvement
- Obesity and Health Practices
- Communication in Education and Healthcare
- Anthropology: Ethics, History, Culture
- Posthumanist Ethics and Activism
- Culinary Culture and Tourism
- Gender, Feminism, and Media
- Gestational Diabetes Research and Management
- Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences
- Fashion and Cultural Textiles
- Child Welfare and Adoption
- Critical Race Theory in Education
- Maternal and Perinatal Health Interventions
- Diversity and Career in Medicine
- Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
- Assisted Reproductive Technology and Twin Pregnancy
Purdue University West Lafayette
2023-2024
Yale University
2024
Indiana University South Bend
2023
Wellesley College
2018-2022
Gender Studies
2018
University of California, Irvine
2014
Growing evidence suggests that maternal prepregnancy weight and gestational gain are risk factors for perinatal complications subsequent child health. Postpartum retention is also associated with adverse birth outcomes obesity. Clinical guidelines addressing healthy before, during, after pregnancy have been introduced in some countries, but at present a systematic accounting these policies has not conducted. The objective of the study was to conduct cross-national comparison guidelines. This...
Abstract The rapidly shifting field of epigenetics has expanded scientific understanding how environmental conditions affect gene expression and development. This article focuses on two ongoing clinical trials—one in the United States one Kingdom—that have used as conceptual basis for testing relationship between nutrition obesity during pregnancy. Drawing ethnographic research, I highlight different ways that scientists interpret to target particular domains environment prenatal...
Race is a salient yet problematic category of everyday life that plays key role in understanding social and biological reproduction. Yet too rarely race centered as an analytic to explore repr...
Abstract This article examines the citational politics of teaching, learning, and doing ethnographic projects that study up in medical anthropology by examining references are often cited, ones exist but not widely circulated, gaps between. I take a reflexive approach to understanding how my positionality shaped path toward studying up. In so doing, reveal complex tensions implementing methods spaces (intentionally) challenging access while simultaneously being embedded within academic...
In this article, I explore how ethnicity codes are used in a prenatal trial the United Kingdom. Here, generative objects that relationally cohere across staff, surveys and pregnant participants to create racial improvisations. examine origins adaptations of three ethnographic historical cases at micro macro scales. The improvisation race is window into movements, negotiations temporality racialization clinical practice. By conceiving as mercurial, argue key mechanism for routinization categories
This article introduces the feminist praxis of duoethnography as a way to examine COVID era. As group diverse, junior, midcareer, and senior scholars, we developed methodology critically reflect on our positions in institutions social worlds. method, emphasizes dialogical intimacy that can form through anthropological work. While autoethnography draws individual daily lives make sense sociopolitical dynamics, relational character research across people practices. Taking aspects knowledge...
Why are there a disproportionate number of Black and Latinx men across the United States volunteering for Phase 1 pharmaceutical trials – riskiest phase drug trial? By exploring social...
Duo-ethnography is a collaborative methodology in which participants juxtapose their experiences around topic to parse multiple perspectives. It explicitly positions ethnographers as sources of information, not data collectors. This method has been used explore racial identities, class dynamics, decolonizing pedagogies, and gender academic life. Building on previous work, we consider our contribution be articulating duo-ethnography an feminist that allows for mutual exploration difference...
There are more large-scale pregnancy trials that implement lifestyle interventions than ever before; yet, there is a dearth of information on pregnant peoples’ experiences in such trials. Contemporary draw epigenetics and DOHaD research to design justify prenatal the material environment reduce health risks future generations. This article draws ethnographic data from trial United Kingdom focuses specifically participants during intervention phase. In this article, I develop politics...
This article explores the circulation of #MyBodyMyChoice in a series deeply divisive political debates – abortion rights and mask wearing during COVID-19. We trace appropriation this slogan for differing ideological purposes, its shifts from collective action concerning pro-choice to individuals refuse comply with mandates. Underpinning values each is white liberal racism that operates uphold dominant gender, class economic structures.