Revaluing Care Lab, research assistant
Martha Espinosa is interested in the study of reproductive justice, contraceptive technologies, feminism, gender, and sexualities in Latin America. In broad terms, her dissertation analyzes the interconnections between eugenics, family planning, and demography in 20th century Mexico. She asks how the experts who represented these movements were vital to define both the “desirable” and the “undesirable” populations in Mexico, as the knowledge they produced was based on class, racial, and gender-based conceptualizations of “fit” Mexicans. In addition to serving as a research assistant for the Revaluing Care Lab in Summer 2021, she was a 2019-20 graduate student fellow in The Microworlds Lab, and participated in the Humanities Unbounded Lab Working Group.
