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Monica Casper
BiographyMonica J. Casper was awarded her Ph.D. in sociology in 1995 by UCSF and in 1996 completed a postdoctoral fellowship in biomedical ethics at Stanford University. She served several years as a faculty member in sociology at UC Santa Cruz, and in 2004 became director of women’s and gender studies at Vanderbilt University. Dr. Casper arrived at ASU in 2008 to direct the Division of Humanities, Arts and Cultural Studies (HArCS). She stepped down from this position in 2011.
Dr. Casper has written widely on a variety of topics related to health, illness, and embodiment. Her most recent book is Missing Bodies: The Politics of Visibility, published by New York University Press and co-authored with Lisa Jean Moore. She is co-editor of the NYU Press book series “Biopolitics: Medicine, Technoscience, and Health in the Twenty-First Century” (information at http://www.nyupress.org/biopolitics_series.php ).
Among her current research projects is “The Quiet Politics of Infant Mortality,” which explores the historical, cultural, and political dynamics of infant mortality in the United States, particularly regarding the lack of public attention to this issue.
With sociologist Laura Carpenter, Dr. Casper is investigating “Politics of the HPV Vaccine for Cervical Cancer.” The project examines issues of sexuality, images of girls and women, access to health care, transnational women’s health activism, and local and regional political responses to the vaccine.
Dr. Casper’s study “Ethics and Politics of Permanent Nonsurgical Sterilization,” with anthropologist Shubhra Sharma, comparatively examines two permanent sterilization technologies. One is used predominately in the developing world, while the other is used by primarily Western women. Drs. Casper and Sharma focus on transnational health, sexuality, and gender politics that shape these different uses.
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