ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS

Elise Andaya is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University at Albany (SUNY) and the author of Conceiving Cuba: Reproduction, Women, and the State in the Post-Soviet Era (2014), which won the 2015 Adele Clarke Book Award for Best Book on Reproduction and was awarded Honorable Mention for the 2015 Michelle Rosaldo Book Award for Best First Book in Feminist Anthropology. She has also written a number of articles and book chapters on gender and reproduction in Cuba and in the United States. Her research has been funded by the Wenner-Gren Foundation and by Fulbright-Hays, as well as by institutional faculty grants.

Emily K. Brunson is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Texas State University and the author of several articles on topics related to health care access and decision-making.

Tiffany D. Joseph is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Stony Brook University and author of Race on the Move: Brazilian Migrants and the Global Reconstruction of Race (2015).

Milena Andrea Melo is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Mississippi State University. She is the 2017–2018 Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in Latino Studies at the School for Advanced Research. Melo’s research has been funded by the Ford Foundation, the National Science Foundation, and the American Anthropological Association.

Mary Alice Scott is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and affiliated faculty in Public Health Sciences at New Mexico State University. She is also adjunct research faculty at the Southern New Mexico Family Medicine Residency Program.

Susan Sered is Professor of Sociology at Suffolk University and author of Uninsured in America: Life and Death in the Land of Opportunity (2005) and Can’t Catch a Break: Gender, Drugs, Jail, and the Limits of Personal Responsibility (2015).

Susan J. Shaw is Associate Professor in the Department of Health Promotion and Policy, University of Massachusetts School of Public Health and Health Sciences. She is the author of Governing How We Care: Contesting Community and Defining Difference in U.S. Public Health Programs (2012).

Elise M. Trott earned a PhD in Anthropology at the University of New Mexico. She researches communal water management in New Mexico in relation to social justice, environmental health, and community well-being. She is the recipient of a Mellon doctoral dissertation completion fellowship and graduated in 2017.

Cathleen E. Willging is Director of the Behavioral Health Research Center of the Pacific Institute of Research and Evaluation and is the author of numerous publications.

Richard Wright holds an MA in Anthropology. He works as a manager for a Behavioral Health Program at a Federally Qualified Health Center in Southern New Mexico.