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Anna Wynfield (Cultural Anthropology, PhD Candidate)

Anna’s research focuses on reproduction, medical anthropology, and prenatal care in the U.S. She is currently writing her dissertation based on multi-year ethnographic research with pregnant people and certified nurse-midwives at hospital-based clinics. Her work engages theoretical perspectives from feminist anthropology and political economy, analyzing how late-stage capitalist contexts and compounding crises in reproductive healthcare demand increasing forms of flexible labor from both healthcare providers and pregnant people. In documenting how people attempt to reconcile historical injustices through feminist practices today, her dissertation highlights the everyday labor sustaining reproduction and prenatal careÌýin the U.S.