Amy Krauss

Biography

Amy Krauss earned a Ph.D. in Anthropology from Johns Hopkins University in 2017. Before joining the faculty at SFU, she held postdoctoral positions at Princeton University, the University of Chicago, and the University of California, Santa Cruz where she taught courses on critical histories of global health and humanitarianism, illness and embodiment, and feminist theories of justice and care. Her first book, Friendship as Disobedience: Abortion Law and Feminist Worldmaking in Mexico draws on collaborative activist-ethnography with acompañantes—abortion care workers and doulas—to trace how people seeking to end pregnancy navigate jurisdictions of rights and criminalization and the bonds of complicity that form in the process. Her 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.