Assistant Professor
Office: 237 Macbride Hall
Phone: (319) 335-0532
- Curriculum Vitae (PDF)
Background:
My research combines approaches from medical anthropology, gender studies and science and technology studies to explore the gendered social consequences of aging, illness, sexual health problems and related medical treatments. Broadly, I am interested in the relationships between gender (especially masculinities), new medical technologies/areas of medicalization, and people’s sex lives and senses of self. My research focuses on Mexico, where gender norms and links between ethnicity, biology and sexuality are widely discussed and hotly contested, although I occasionally research issues of sexuality and medicine in the US.
I am currently writing up results from a study of men’s experiences
of erectile function change and erectile dysfunction treatment in a government-run hospital in Cuernavaca. I have just begun a new hospital-based ethnographic study at this site, exploring the co-construction of heterosexuality, illness identity and “Mexicanness” among couples enrolled in a longitudinal study of human papillomavirus (HPV) transmission. Finally, I am committed to raising anthropology’s profile in health research, and collaborate with scholars from a variety of disciplines on mixed-methods studies of gendered health practices in Mexico. Along these lines, I am currently co-editing a volume entitled, “Medical Anthropology at the Intersections,” which discusses the field’s interdisciplinary engagements.
Courses Taught:
Anthropology of Sexuality Health in Mexico Anthropology and Contemporary World Problems |
Affiliations & Links
Society for Social Studies of Science Mexican Institute of Social Security Epidemiology and Health Services Research Unit |
