I am a medical sociologist with research interests in global maternal and reproductive health, population and development, and feminist and postcolonial studies of science, medicine, and technology. As an Associate Professor of Sociology at Brandeis University, I teach undergraduate and graduate courses on biomedicine, health and illness, reproduction, and ethnographic research methods. I have conducted research on maternal and reproductive health with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), the Guttmacher Institute, Global Doctors for Choice, and Management Sciences for Health (MSH). My research has been funded by the American Association of University Women, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Social Science Research Council, and the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. In September 2021, I received $300,000 from the Hewlett Foundation to support my new research project, “Into Women’s Hands: Misoprostol and the Politics of Reproduction in Burkina Faso and Senegal.”