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Lara Braff

Lara Braff

Lara Braff

University of Chicago

In Residence: September 2010- June 2011
Phone: (858) 822-0849
E-mail: lbraff@uchicago.edu


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Expertise

Cultural and medical anthropology; Latin American anthropology; medicine/science in Mexico; assisted reproduction, kinship, and gender; personhood and the body

Regions of Interest

Mexico; Latin America

Current Project

Reconceiving Personhood: The Localization of Assisted Reproductive Technologies in Mexico City

Publications

2009. Assisted Reproduction and Population Politics: Creating “Modern” Families in Mexico City. Anthropology News 50(2): 5-6.


Academic Background

Lara received her PhD from the University of Chicago in Comparative Human Development, specializing in cultural anthropology. She received her B.A. with honors in Anthropology and Spanish from the University of California at Berkeley. Her dissertation research, based in Mexico City, was funded by Fulbright-Hays and University of Chicago’s Center for Latin American Studies grants. Currently, she is revising her dissertation for publication as a monograph and journal articles.