Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Christa Craven
Christa Craven is an assistant professor of anthropology and women’s, gender, and sexuality studies (WGSS) at The College of Wooster. She became a member of the faculty in 2006 and her areas of expertise include the global politics of reproduction, medical anthropology, grassroots organizing and global feminisms, feminist ethnography, and lesbian/gay/bi/trans/queer studies.
Craven received her B.A. from New College of Florida (1997) and earned her M.A. (2000) and Ph.D. (2003) from American University.
She has published on grassroots activism and midwifery politics in Medical Anthropology Quarterly, American Anthropologist and the edited collection Mainstreaming Midwifery: The Politics of Change. She is currently working on a book entitled Pushing for Midwives: Reproductive Rights in a Consumer Right’s Era.
Courses Taught:
- Introduction to Anthropology
- Gender and World Cultures
- Global Politics of Reproduction
e-mail: ccraven@wooster.edu
