Dr Amy Krauss

Dr Amy Krauss

Visiting Fellow

Latin America and Caribbean Centre (LACC)

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Languages
English, Spanish
Key Expertise
Medical and Legal Anthropology, Feminist Science, and Technology Studies

About me

Amy Krauss is a cultural anthropologist whose research and teaching interests span questions of law, inequality and state-making; decolonial feminist studies of science, technology, and medicine; relationality and embodiment; and reproductive ethics and politics. Her ethnographic inquiries and writing are grounded in participatory action research with feminist activists, community organizers and healthcare practitioners in Mexico, Latin America and the U.S.

Her current book project, Counterpoints of Care: Abortion Law and Feminist Worldmaking, is an ethnography of the politics of care that emerge across rivaling state jurisdictions of abortion rights and criminalization in Mexico. The book draws on long-term ethnographic research with feminist accompaniment and doula projects to examine how polarized regimes of law produce and sustain race and class inequality while intensifying moral ambiguity for people seeking abortion across state borders. Reflecting on the difficult intimacies involved in accompaniment, the ethnography traces the embodied, often uncertain relations of support and solidarity through which feminist care-workers and people seeking to end pregnancy enact alternative moral worlds and reproductive futures. 

Amy received her Ph.D. in Anthropology from Johns Hopkins University. Before joining the Latin American and Caribbean Centre at LSE, she held Postdoctoral Fellowships with the Global Health Program at Princeton University and the Pozen Center for Human Rights at the University of Chicago. Her work is published or forthcoming in South Atlantic Quarterly, Revista Direito.

Expertise Details

Medical and Legal Anthropology; Feminist Science and Technology Studies; Border Studies; Global Health Inequity; Black; Latin American and Latinx Feminisms; Reproductive Ethics and Politics; Urban Ethnography; and Activist Research Methods

My research