CONTRIBUTOR:

Elise Andaya

AFFILIATION:

TITLE:

Associate Professor

DEPARTMENT:

Anthropology

INSTITUTION:

University at Albany, State University of New York

BIOGRAPHY:

Elise Andaya (PhD, New York University, 2007) is associate professor of anthropology at the University at Albany (State University of New York). Her research interests lie in the intersection of reproduction, gender, health citizenship, and access to abortion and prenatal health care in the United States and in Cuba. Her book, Conceiving Cuba: Reproduction, Women, and the State in the Post-Soviet Era (2014) won the Adele E. Clarke Award Best Book on Reproduction from the interdisciplinary group ReproNetwork and received Honorary Mention in the Association for Feminist Anthropology’s Michelle Z. Rosaldo Award for Best First Book in Feminist Anthropology.