2020 LSA Collegiate Fellow (Women's and Gender Studies)
About
Seda Saluk is a feminist anthropologist working at the intersection of medical anthropology, science and technology studies, and Middle East studies. Her current book project, Monitored Reproduction: Surveillance and Care in Turkey, offers an ethnographic analysis of reproductive surveillance in Turkey, concentrating on centralized databases used in maternal and infant health services. Drawing on long-term fieldwork in clinics and homes, this project examines how data-driven technologies unfold in different communities' everyday lives along the axes of gender, class, and ethnicity. Building on the theme of reproductive and public health governance, Dr. Saluk is also developing a second project on the sociopolitical dimensions of vaccine hesitancy. Her work has appeared in or is forthcoming from journals such as Journal of Middle East Women's Studies, Women's Studies International Forum, Medical Anthropology Quarterly, Collaborative Anthropologies, and edited volumes on reproduction and feminist movements. She holds a Ph.D. in anthropology and a graduate certificate in feminist studies from the University of Massachusets Amherst.
Research Area Keyword(s):
Feminist studies of science, technology, and medicine; anthropology of reproduction and public health; postcolonial and transnational feminism(s); Middle East studies
