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Megan Colleen Moodie
  • Pronouns she, her, her, hers, herself
  • Title
    • Professor
  • Division Social Sciences Division
  • Department
    • Anthropology Department
  • Affiliations Feminist Studies Department, Film and Digital Media Department, Legal Studies, Global & Community Health
  • Phone
    831-295-4364
  • Email
  • Website
  • Office Location
    • Social Sciences 1, 413
    • Anthropology Faculty Services
  • Mail Stop Social Sciences 1 Faculty Services
  • Mailing Address
    • 1156 High St.
    • Santa Cruz CA 95064
  • Faculty Areas of Expertise Ethnography

Research Interests

feminist theory, disability justice, medical anthropology, creative ethnographic methods



Geographical Areas: South Asia, East Europe, and the United States

 

Languages: Hindi, Romanian, Spanish

 

Popular media publications:

https://hipmamazine.com/megan-moodie-dear-selma-blair-please-play-me-in-the-movie/

 

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/when-the-chronically-ill-re-mission-filmmaker-jennifer-breas-life-after-unrest/

 

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/eugenic-thinking-today/

 

SAPIENS.org http://www.sapiens.org/culture/constantin-brancusi

 

https://thi.ucsc.edu/megan-moodie-in-best-american-essays/

 

Biography, Education and Training

Megan Moodie (B.A. Skidmore College 1998; Ph.D. University of California, Santa Cruz, 2006) is Associate Professor of Anthropology.

Honors, Awards and Grants

Principal Investigator, UC Humanities Research Institute Residential Research Cluster: "How We Make It: Disability Justice for the Long Haul," UC Irvine, Spring 2022

Selected Publications

We Were Adivasis: Aspiration in an Indian Scheduled Tribe. South Asia Across the Disciplines Series. University of Chicago Press. 2015.

 

""The Eye, The Finger, and the Foot": Methodological Sententiae for Embodied Research Creation." Feminist Studies 48.1 (2022): 287-314.

https://muse-jhu-edu.oca.ucsc.edu/article/862093/summary

 

"Disruption at the Center: Disability Anthropology and Black Feminist Research-Creation." Fieldsights. 6 Sept 2022.

https://culanth.org/fieldsights/disruption-at-the-center-disability-anthropology-and-black-feminist-research-creation

 

"Unrest: Gender, chronic illness, and the limits of documentary visibility." Film Quarterly 71.4 (2018): 9-15.

https://online-ucpress-edu.oca.ucsc.edu/fq/article/71/4/9/42180/Unrest-Gender-Chronic-Illness-and-the-Limits-of

 

"Microfinance and the gender of risk: The case of Kiva. org." Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 38.2 (2013): 279-302.

https://www-journals-uchicago-edu.oca.ucsc.edu/doi/full/10.1086/667448