Eugenia Georges

Candidate statement

Eugenia Georges is Professor of Anthropology at Rice University. Her research interests focus on the medicalization and demedicalization of reproduction and, more specifically, on the processes through which understandings of pregnancy and obstetrical practices in Greece have been shaped in interaction with a variety of reproductive technologies. She is the author of two books, Bodies of Knowledge: The Medicalization of Reproduction in Greece (Vanderbilt University Press), and The Making of a Transnational Community: Development and Cultural Change in the Dominican Republic (Columbia University Press). With James Faubion and Gonda van Steen, she co-edited “Greece is Burning,” a special issue of Cultural Anthropology, and with Chrisy Moutsatsos, “Re-visiting Sex and Gender in Contemporary Greek Ethnography, a special issue of the Journal of Mediterranean Studies. Her most recent project examines Greek medical education and the training of medical students and residents in obstetrics.