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Risa Cromer is an Associate Professor at Purdue University within the College of Liberal Arts, specializing in Medical Anthropology, Feminist Science and Technology Studies, Reproductive Politics, Race, Religion, Social Movements, Mental Health, and Veterans issues in the United States. She received her Ph.D. from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York in 2016. Prior to joining Purdue in Fall 2019, she was a postdoctoral fellow in the Thinking Matters program at Stanford University's Center for Biomedical Ethics from 2016 to 2019 and a visiting scholar at the Reproductive Sociology Research Group at Cambridge University in 2018. Cromer's research focuses on the social justice issues and bioethical controversies surrounding reproduction, race, and disability. She is currently writing an ethnographic book that examines the political movements regarding frozen human embryos left over from in vitro fertilization in the United States. Her work has been supported by organizations such as the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Wenner-Gren Foundation Anthropological Research, and the Brocher Foundation.
Stanford University • Stanford, CA
Collaborated in interdisciplinary teams within the Thinking Matters program at the Center for Biomedical Ethics.
Cambridge University • Cambridge, UK
Conducted research with the Reproductive Sociology Research Group.
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