Thank you Eleonora Cirant for letting me contribute to il Fatto Quotidiano.it “Polonia, le voci delle donne in piazza contro la legge che vieta l’aborto: così la loro lotta è diventata simbolo di libertà“

Exciting news – I’m on research leave in 2020-2021 to lead the WHO study “Policy Implementation – Access to Safe Abortion Services in the Republic of Ireland,” which examines barriers and facilitators to policy implementation since the start of service in 2019. I am the Principal Investigator for our international team of researchers based mainly in Ireland, but also in the US, and the UK.

I am also continuing my collaborative work with colleagues in Spain, Italy, and France.

This also means I’m not teaching any courses until fall 2021.

All the best and stay well!

The Culture, Agriculture, Food and Environment journal editors published an interview with Sarah Davenport, former honors student and now a PhD student at Brown University, about her research and article “Whose Sustainability? An Analysis of a Community Farming Program’s Food Justice and Environmental Sustainability Agenda,” (2019, 41(1):56-65).

She summarizes her work as follows: “My research agenda is broadly concerned with black and brown liberation, food and environmental justice, and agroecology. This article is part of the foundation of my research agenda; it scrutinizes that which is taken for granted as ‘good’ (sustainability) and brings light to issues which have long been neglected in black and brown communities across the United States.”

Sarah’s doctoral research is in the Lower Ninth Ward neighborhood in New Orleans, Louisiana. The full interview is here.    

Honors student Caleb Hernandez, an Anthropology Major and Creative Writing Minor, was recognized with the Judges’ Choice Award and  Scholarship at the UCF Showcase of Undergraduate Research Excellence in April 2019 for his Honors Thesis research titled, “Experiences of Young Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Latinx People in Healthcare” which can be accessed here https://stars.library.ucf.edu/honorstheses/472/

Caleb graduated with honors in May 2019.

Our Special Issue in Medical Anthropology Journal “Human Rights and Reproductive Governance in Transnational Perspective” is out! Thanks to Mounia El Kotni & Elyse Ona Singer for amazing editorial work, and to Lynn Morgan for a wonderful Intro that brings it all together and makes us look forward.