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Feminist Ethnography; Reproductive Politics; Midwifery and Homebirth Activism; Lesbian/Gay/Bi/Trans/Queer Reproduction; Reproductive Loss; Transnational Feminist Activism; Feminist Pedagogy

• Introduction to Anthropology
• Introduction to WGSS
• Introduction to Global Queer Studies
• Queer Lives
• Transnational Feminisms
• Global Politics of Reproduction
• Globalizing Health (team-taught with Dr. Thomas Tierney)
• Ethnographic Research
• Doing Feminist Research: Theory & Practice
• WGSS Senior Seminar: Feminist Pedagogy in Action

Books

• , 2^nd Edition (2022, orig 2016). Dána-Ain Davis and Christa Craven. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Press.
• (2019), in “Gender and Sexualities in Psychology” Book Series (Elizabeth Peel and Elizabeth Stokoe, eds.), Routledge Press. Companion Website:
  • 2021 Book Prize Winner: Council on Anthropology & Reproduction
• (2013), Christa Craven & Dána-Ain Davis, eds. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
• (2010). Temple University Press, Philadelphia.

Articles

• Writing in Community: Relationship Building and Accountability in Knowledge Production / Escribir en Comunidad: Construcción de Relaciones y Responsabilidad en la Producción de Conocimiento (reviewer and coauthor with Jordi A. Rivera Prince, Emily M. Blackwood, Madeleine Landrum, Elizabeth L. Rodgers, Emily B. P. Milton, Monica Barnes, Elizabeth Chin, Christa Craven, Kristina Douglass, María José Figuerero Torres, María A. Gutiérrez, Sarah Herr, Lisa Hodgetts, Kirk A. Maasch, Kylie E. Quave, Danilyn Rutherford, and Daniel H. Sandweiss).  American Anthropologist. (English) and (Spanish).
• “Queering Reproduction” (with Nessette Falu) in A Companion to the Anthropology of Reproductive Medicine and Technology (2023), Cecilia Van Hollen and Nayantara Appleton, eds. Hoboken, New Jersey: Wiley.
• “LGBTQ+ Family-Building: Challenges & Opportunity,” Profile in Open Access Textbook (2022), Deborah P. Amory; Sean G. Massey; Jennifer Miller; and Allison P. Brown, eds. NY: State University of New York. Licensed under a , except where otherwise noted.
• (2021), in Feminist Anthropology, Special Issue on the Cite Black Women Collective 2(1): 120-129.
• “Losing a Child: Death & Hidden Losses in LGBTQ-Parent Families” (with Katherine R. Allen), in LGBTQ-Parent Families: Innovations in Research and Implications for Practice (2020), 2^nd Edition, Abbie E. Goldberg and Katherine R. Allen, eds. New York: Springer.
• “Feminist Ethnography” (with Dána-Ain Davis), in Companion to Feminist Studies (2020, complement to the Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Gender and Sexuality Studies), Nancy Naples, ed. Hoboken, New Jersey: Wiley-Blackwell.
• “Infertility and Reproductive Loss,” in The SAGE Encyclopedia of LGBTQ Studies (2016), Abbie E. Goldberg, ed., pp. 584-587.  Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications.
• 2010 “Downplaying Difference: Historical Accounts of African American Midwives and Contemporary Struggles for Midwifery” (co-authored with Mara Glatzel, Wooster Alumna ’07). Feminist Studies, Summer 2010.
• 2007 A “Consumer’s Right” to Choose a Midwife: Shifting Meanings for Reproductive Rights Under Neoliberalism. American Anthropologist 109(4): 701-712.
• 2005 Claiming Respectable American Motherhood: Homebirth Mothers, Medical Officials, and the State. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 19(2): 194-215.

• American Anthropological Association, 1995-Present (AAA Governance Commission 2005-2007)
• Association for Feminist Anthropology, 1995-Present
• Council on Anthropology and Reproduction, 1999-Present
• Association for Queer Anthropology (formerly, Society of Lesbian & Gay Anthropologists), 1999-Present, (Co-Chair 2004-2005)
• National Women’s Studies Association, 2005-Present