Project Leaders
Aline Gubrium is Associate Professor of Community Health Education at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her primary research focuses on sexual and reproductive health, rights, and justice; participatory digital, visual, and narrative research methodologies; and holistic and culture-centered approaches to health promotion. She uses participatory, digital, visual, and narrative methods to study the sexual and reproductive health knowledge and practices of marginalized women and youth, and has published extensively in the field of digital storytelling, sexual health and young parenting.
Aline is the co-author of Participatory Visual and Digital Methods (Left Coast Press, 2013), which explains participatory visual and digital methodologies for social research, health promotion and practice, and advocacy. In addition to leading the Ford Foundation-sponsored “Hear Our Voices” project, she is currently funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to design and test a culture-centered narrative approach for health promotion in collaboration with young Puerto Rican Latinas.
Elizabeth L. Krause is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her research has centered on themes of population politics, especially low fertility and related critiques of rationality; cultural politics of race, gender and class, particularly as related to reproduction and, more recently, immigration; social memory and historical anthropology; economic anthropology and value; global families; and ethnographic writing, including politics and practices of representation.
Betsy is the author of Unraveled: A Weaver’s Tale of Life Gone Modern (University of California Press, 2009) and A Crisis of Births: Population Politics and Family-Making in Italy (Thomson-Wadsworth 2005). She has conducted fieldwork in Italy, Micronesia, Oregon, Arizona and Massachusetts. Her research has received support from the U.S. Fulbright U.S. Student Program, Council for European Studies, The Wenner-Gren Foundation, the National Science Foundation, and the Ford Foundation.
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Contact
- Aline Gubrium: agubrium@schoolph.umass.edu
- Betsy Krause: ekrause@anthro.umass.edu
Social Media
- Facebook: Hear Our Stories