Introducing Amy Krauss: New faculty member in SFU GSWS and Labour Studies

The Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies (GSWS) at Simon Fraser University (SFU) is pleased to welcome assistant professor Amy Krauss, a joint faculty member with the Labour Studies Program, to our department.

Krauss completed her PhD in Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University. Prior to joining SFU, she held postdoctoral positions and taught courses on critical histories of global health and humanitarianism, illness and embodiment, and feminist theories of justice and care at Princeton University, the University of Chicago, and the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Krauss’ writing has been published in South Atlantic Quarterly, American Anthropologist, Revista Direito GV, Feminist Theory, and Medical Anthropology: Cross-Cultural Studies in Health and Illness. Additionally, Krauss has written her first book, Friendship as Disobedience: Abortion Law and Feminist Worldmaking in Mexico. 

Students will have the opportunity to enroll in a special topics course taught by Krauss in spring 2025.