I am a qualitative researcher working across anthropology, gender studies, science and technology studies, and public health.
My research explores issues of race, gender, and power across broad scientific and biomedical fields including postgenomics and epigenetics, clinical trials, chronic illness, and reproduction.
Publications
Book
- Weighing the Future: Race, Science, and Pregnancy Trials in the Postgenomic Era – University of California Press, 2022
Selected Articles
- “The Politics of Postgenomic Reproduction: Exploring Pregnant Narratives from within a Clinical Trial” Science, Technology, and Human Values, 12/17/2021
- “Reproducing Whiteness: Race, Food, and Epigenetics” –American Anthropologist, 8/24/2020
- “Centering Race and Racism in Reproduction” – Natali Valdez & Daisy Deomampo, Medical Anthropology, 12/12/2019
- “Improvising Race: Clinical Trials and Racial Classification” – Medical Anthropology, 8/15/2019
- “The Redistribution of Reproductive Responsibility: On the Epigenetics of “Environment” in Prenatal Interventions” – Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 2018
- “No Global Consensus: A Cross-Sectional Survey of Maternal Weight Politics” – Courtney Scott, Christopher T. Anderson, Natali Valdez, Francisco Mardones, Ellen A Nohr, Lucilla Poston, Katharina C Quack Loetscher, and Barbara Adams, BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2014.
Book Reviews
- “Adverse Events: Race, Inequality, and the Testing of New Pharmaceuticals by Jill A. Fisher” – Journal of Cultural Economy, 9/30/2021
Online Publications and Blog Posts
- “#My(white)BodyMyChoice“ – Thesis Eleven, 7/14/2020, with Megan Warin
- “Epigentics and Methodological Limits“ – Society for Cultural Anthropology, 4/25/2019
Natali Valdez 