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Elizabeth F. S. Roberts

Elizabeth F. S. Roberts is a feminist ethnographer focused on science, medicine, and technology and associate professor of anthropology at the University of Michigan. Her projects have included research on assisted reproduction in the United States and Ecuador, reproductive governance in Latin America, transnational medical migrations, and, currently, environmental health science in the United States and Mexico. She is the director of two ongoing team-based projects in Mexico City: “Mexican Exposures: A Bioethnographic Approach to Health and Inequality” and “Neighborhood Environments as Socio-Techno-bio Systems: Water Quality, Public Trust, and Health in Mexico City” (NESTSMX).
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Zombie Guts and Border Walls

By Elizabeth F. S. Roberts

In Season 2 of the zombie apocalypse show Fear the Walking Dead, Nick, a gringo junkie from Los Angeles, survives separation from his family by slathering himself with zombie guts and walking ...

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