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I am a medical anthropologist focused on surgical practice and the production, circulation and application of expert knowledge on gendered bodies. My first book, The Look of a Woman (2017, Duke University Press), examines facial feminization surgery, a series of bone and soft tissue reconstructive surgeries intended to feminize the faces of trans- women. My current projects include multisited ethnographic research investigating how US institutions are responding to a growing demand for trans- healthcare, and a literature-based analysis of how trans- surgical outcomes are studied and clinically assessed. I am also developing a book project on genital injury and rehabilitation. Focused on knowledge and how it moves in the form of embodied and institutional practices, my research has been problem- rather than place-based. Working on expertise as it shapes practices of gender-making medicine, I have conducted ethnographic work in surgical clinics in the US, Northern Europe, and South America.Show Less
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Courses
- MAMedical Anthropology
- AMAWCApplied Medical Anthropology in Western Contexts
- GSIGender and Social Identity
- MWBHAPMany Ways of Being Human: Anthropological Perspective
- IMAIntroduction to Medical Anthropology
- HATHistory of Anthropological Theory
- BMIMABodies in Medicine: Introduction to Medical Anthropology
Grants
- Stanford Humanities Center External Faculty Fellowship
Principal Investigator (PI)
2022
$70.0K
Active - Doctoral Dissertation Research: The Social Life of TBI: The Embodied and Constructed Meaning of Moderate/Severe Traumatic Brain Injury in the United States
Principal Investigator (PI)
2017
$25.2K
News
- Bringing Pandemic Lessons to the (Virtual) Classroom
2020
- Anthropologist Explores Facial Feminization Surgery, Trans- Medicine
2017
- UA to Host Inaugural Transgender Studies Conference
2016
Publications (14)
Recent
- Centering Transgender Individuals in Forensic Anthropology and Expanding Binary Sex Estimation in Casework and Research
2021
- Anthropology in the Face of the Contemporary
2021
- Trans America: A Counter-History by Barry Reay
2020
- Not Here: Catholic Healthcare Systems and the Refusal of Transgender Care in the United States
2019
- A Capable Surgeon and a Willing Electrologist: Challenges to the Expansion of Transgender Surgical Care in the United States
2019
- TSQ: The Surgery Issue
2018
- Gender, Ethnicity, and Transgender Embodiment: Interrogating Classification in Facial Feminization Surgery
2018
- Introduction: Reframing the Surgical
2018
- Formations of Femininity: Science and Aesthetics of Facial Feminization Surgery
2017
- Facial Gender Confirmation Surgery: Review of the Literature and Recommendations for Version 8 of the WPATH Standards of Care
2017
- Anatomical Authorities: On the epistemological exclusion of trans- surgical patients
2015
- Description of Sex Difference as Prescription for Sex Change: On the Origin of Facial Feminization Surgery
2014
- It Is As It Does: Genital Form and Function in Sex Reassignment Surgery
2014
- The Surgical Suite
2013
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