Lisa Wynn

Biography

Lisa L. Wynn is an associate professor and Head of the Anthropology Department at Macquarie University in Sydney.  She is a medical anthropologist who writes about reproductive health technologies, gender ideologies, affect, and sexuality.  She also writes about research ethics and previously served as deputy chair of her university ethics committee.  She is the author of the book Pyramids and Nightclubs (University of Texas Press, 2007) and the co-editor of Emergency Contraception: The Story of a Global Reproductive Health Technology (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012) and Abortion Pills, Test Tube Babies, and Sex Toys: Exploring Reproductive and Sexual Technologies in the Middle East and North Africa (Vanderbilt University Press, 2017).  She serves on the editorial board of the journal Maternal and Child Health.

Research Interest

Lisa's dissertation research and first book, Pyramids and Nightclubs, examined nodes of transnational contact that shaped modern Egypt, comparing the history of Western and Arab tourism in Egypt. The tourist economy in Egypt illuminates the creative projects of cultural and identity production that occur through processes at once mimetic and oppositional in encounters with national others.