Writing in Community: Relationship Building and Accountability in Knowledge Production / Escribir en Comunidad: Construcción de Relaciones y Responsabilidad en la Producción de Conocimiento(reviewer and coauthor with Jordi A. Rivera Prince, Emily M. Blackwood, Madeleine Landrum, Elizabeth L. Rodgers, Emily B. P. Milton, Monica Barnes, Elizabeth Chin, Christa Craven, Kristina Douglass, María José Figuerero Torres, María A. Gutiérrez, Sarah Herr, Lisa Hodgetts, Kirk A. Maasch, Kylie E. Quave, Danilyn Rutherford, and Daniel H. Sandweiss). American Anthropologist.(English) and(Spanish).
“Queering Reproduction” (with Nessette Falu) inA Companion to the Anthropology of Reproductive Medicine and Technology(2023), Cecilia Van Hollen and Nayantara Appleton, eds. Hoboken, New Jersey: Wiley.
“LGBTQ+ Family-Building: Challenges & Opportunity,” Profile in Open Access Textbook(2022), Deborah P. Amory; Sean G. Massey; Jennifer Miller; and Allison P. Brown, eds. NY: State University of New York. Licensed under a , except where otherwise noted.
(2021), inFeminist Anthropology, Special Issue on the Cite Black Women Collective 2(1): 120-129.
“Losing a Child: Death & Hidden Losses in LGBTQ-Parent Families” (with Katherine R. Allen), inLGBTQ-Parent Families: Innovations in Research and Implications for Practice(2020),2ndEdition, Abbie E. Goldberg and Katherine R. Allen, eds. New York: Springer.
“Feminist Ethnography” (with Dána-Ain Davis), inCompanion to Feminist Studies(2020, complement to theWiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Gender and Sexuality Studies), Nancy Naples, ed. Hoboken, New Jersey: Wiley-Blackwell.
“Infertility and Reproductive Loss,” in The SAGE Encyclopedia of LGBTQ Studies(2016), Abbie E. Goldberg, ed., pp. 584-587. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications.
2010 “Downplaying Difference: Historical Accounts of African American Midwives and Contemporary Struggles for Midwifery” (co-authored with Mara Glatzel, Alumna ’07). Feminist Studies, Summer 2010.
2007 A “Consumer’s Right” to Choose a Midwife: Shifting Meanings for Reproductive Rights Under Neoliberalism. American Anthropologist 109(4): 701-712.
2005 Claiming Respectable American Motherhood: Homebirth Mothers, Medical Officials, and the State. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 19(2): 194-215.
Professional Affiliations
American Anthropological Association, 1995-Present (AAA Governance Commission 2005-2007)
Association for Feminist Anthropology, 1995-Present
Council on Anthropology and Reproduction, 1999-Present
Association for Queer Anthropology (formerly, Society of Lesbian & Gay Anthropologists), 1999-Present, (Co-Chair 2004-2005)
National Women's Studies Association, 2005-Present
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