As a trained anthropologist, historian, biologist, and ethicist my research interests are varied but focus on issues surrounding reproductive health and medicine. 

I manage Reproductive Health Arizona (RHAZ), a collaborative research project between the Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics and the Center for Biology and Society. The project aims to increase Arizonan’s literacy of reproductive health and medicine (RMH), to record Arizona’s history of that field in a sustainable and open access digital venue, and to promote civil discussion among Arizonans about the past, future, and meaning of reproductive health. I organize and implement workflow for a team of excellent RHAZ contributors to produce products integral to those goals. Products include articles with robust historical context written for the general public, a digital map of individuals currently active in RHM, video recorded oral histories with individuals influential to the history of Arizona's RHM, and public events that encourage civil dialogue.The project is currently in its first year proof of concept and will live online within the Embryo Project Encyclopedia (http://embroy.asu.edu).

In my dissertation I examined how actors operating amid different institutional traditions constructed the population-level risks and responsibilities surrounding fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS), and proposed specific policy interventions. As FAS progressed from the clinic through the US Congress in the 1970s and 1980s, it became imbued with new meaning, making public latent ideals of pregnancy, motherhood, personal freedoms, and reproductive choices. I investigated the context and process by which scientific, social, moral, and political narratives dynamically interact to give rise to public health policy; in that case, how agents constructed the risk of drinking during pregnancy to mandate labels on alcohol.