Sarah Williams
Louise Lamphere Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Gender Studies
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Sarah Williams holds a PhD in Medical Anthropology from the University of Toronto. She is the author of several peer-reviewed publications, including an essay in Social Science & Medicine entitled, "Divergent narratives of blame: Maternal mortality rates, reproductive governance, and midwifery in Mexico." Her dissertation, "Re/producing Legitimacy: Midwifery and Indigeneity in the Yucatán Peninsula," was based on her ethnographic fieldwork in Quintana Roo and Yucatán, Mexico.
Scholarly Interests
Reproductive in/justice; race, racialization, and health
Affiliated Departments
Department of Anthropology