Elise Andaya

I am a cultural anthropologist specializing in gender and medical anthropology and have conducted fieldwork in Havana, Cuba, on shifts in reproduction, gender ideologies, and kinship strategies since the devastating economic and ideological crisis precipitated by the fall of the socialist bloc. This research has resulted in my book, Conceiving Cuba: Reproduction, Women, and the State in the Post-Soviet Era (Rutgers University Press 2014), in addition to articles in Medical Anthropology Quarterly and Feminist Studies.

Assistant Professor of Anthropology
University at Albany (SUNY)