Elise Andaya
Associate Professor
Anthropology
University at Albany
United States of America
Biography
Elise Andaya is a cultural anthropologist specializing in medical anthropology. She conducts 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. Moving from observations of reproductive health consultations in neighborhood clinics to interviews with women and their families, academics, and medical professionals, she examines the effects of broad political-economic change on familial and reproductive life. She received her doctorate from New York University.
Research Interest
Cuba and political/economic changes; reproductive health; reproductive technologies; cross-cultural ideas of family; gender; sexuality
Publications
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Andaya, Elise, and Joanna Mishtal. "The erosion of rights to abortion care in the United States: A call for a renewed anthropological engagement with the politics of abortion." Medical anthropology quarterly 31.1 (2017): 40-59.
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Andaya, Elise, et al. "Perceptions of primary care-based breastfeeding promotion interventions: qualitative analysis of randomized controlled trial participant interviews." Breastfeeding Medicine 7.6 (2012): 417-422.
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Andaya, Elise. Reproducing the Revolution: Gender, Kinship, and the State in Contemporary Cuba. ProQuest, 2007.
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Andaya, Elise. Conceiving Cuba: Reproduction, women, and the state in the post-Soviet era. Rutgers University Press, 2014.
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Andaya, Elise. "The gift of health." Medical anthropology quarterly 23.4 (2009): 357-374.
