Ellen Foley
Professor, Sustainability and Social Justice
Scholarly Interests
sexual and reproductive health, population control, HIV/AIDS, sex work
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Ellen Foley is a medical anthropologist whose research addresses the social production of disease with a focus on how intertwined global, national, and local social forces shape vulnerability to disease, health status, and access to medical care, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. Her scholarship examines the processes by which social and economic changes articulate with existing hierarchies of gender, class, and generation to produce conflicts that are largely unseen and misunderstood by dominant development and health discourses. She focuses on the lived experience of illness and suffering as well as the intimate household politics of gender inequality and managing health and sickness in resource-constrained environments.
Degrees
- Ph.D. in Anthropology, Michigan State University, 2002
- M.A. in Anthropology, Michigan State University, 1998
- B.A. in Anthropology, Kalamazoo College, 1994
Affiliated Department(s)
- Sustainability and Social Justice
- Center for Gender, Race, and Area Studies (CGRAS)
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Scholarly and Creative Works
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The innovation imperative in global health: gendered futurity in the Sayana® Press.
Published in Medicine Anthropology Theory
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2022
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Vol. 92
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Issue #2
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In Pursuit of the Demographic Dividend: The Return of Economic Justifications for Family Planning in Africa
Published in Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters
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2022
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The Innovation Imperative in Global Health: Gendered Futurity in the Sayana® Press
Published in Medicine Anthropology Theory
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2022
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Vol. 9
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Issue #2
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Legislating Sexuality in Africa: Human Rights, Society, and the State
Chapter: Colonial Legacies, Electoral Politics, and the Production of (Anti) Homosexuality in SenegalPublished by University of Wisconsin Press
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2020
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Advisor-Advisee Feminist Relational Mentoring
Published in Feminist Anthropology
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2020
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Gender and Sexuality in Senegalese Societies: Critical Perspectives and Methods
Chapter: Radical Inclusion and the Life of a Public Intellectual: A Conversation with Cheikh Ibrahima NiangPublished by Lexington Books
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2019
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