Sarah Williams

Louise Lamphere Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Gender Studies

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