Biography
Presenting Teaching and Researching Disability: A Workshop for Early Career Scholars of Anthropology and/of Disability
Helena Fietz’ research examines how disability, care practices, and family expectations intersect with public policies and representations of disability in Brazil and the US, with particular attention to the roles of gender, race, class, and generation in this entanglement. Her broad research interests include medical anthropology, science and technology studies, critical disability studies, anthropology of care, health inequities, and applied anthropology.