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Elise L. Andaya
Office: Arts & Sciences Building, Room
Ph: (518) 442-4700
E-mail: eandaya@albany.edu
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PhD, NYU, 2007
Research Interests
Cuba, Latin America, the Caribbean; gender; kinship and reproduction; populational change; medical anthropology; health and health care; cultures of socialist and post-socialist states; race; migration and transnationalism; personhood and changing ethical systems.
Areas: Cuba
Curriculum Vitae
Research Statement
Elise Andaya (Ph.D., New York University, 2007) is a cultural anthropologist specializing in medical anthropology. She conducts fieldwork in Havana, Cuba, on shifts in reproduction, gender ideologies, and kinship strategies since the devastating economic and ideological crisis precipitated by the fall of the socialist bloc. Moving from observations of reproductive health consultations in neighborhood clinics to interviews with women and their families, academics, and medical professionals, she examines the effects of broad political-economic change on familial and reproductive life.
Select Publications
In press “La Reproducción de las Poblacions y de las Personas: El Acercamiento entre la Demografía y la Antropología Feminista Norteamericana,” in Familias y Culturas en el Espacio Latinamericano, David Robichaux and Ana Vera Estrada, eds. University of Mexico Press.
In press “Fieldwork Relations: Reflections on Identity and Ethnographic Methodology in Havana, Cuba.” In edited volume, Fieldwork Identities, Erin Taylor, ed., Caribbean Studies Press.
Forthcoming “Bearing Statistics: Reproductive Health Policy and Practice in Cuba.” In edited volume, Unintended Consequences: The Social Life of Reproductive Health Policy, Susan Erikson, ed.
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