I am currently working on questions of gender and kinship, particularly around the subject of motherhood. I am beginning to look at notions of love in kinship relations. My previous work has been in public health, conducting ethnographic interviews in Baltimore at a residential drug and alcohol treatment center. This work was part of a larger public health study on ecological risk factors for sexually transmitted infections. I focus on critiquing how intervention programs shape individual concepts of risk, as framed by public health methods and behavior change models. |