Ugo F. Edu

Assistant Professor

african american studies

university of california, los angeles

Medical Anthropology, PhD

International Health, MPH

MY WORK

medical anthropologist. playwright. black feminist. doula.

Publications:1) Valente, Jessica, Johnson, Natrina, Edu, Ugo Felicia, Karliner, Leah S. (2020). Importance of Communication and Relationships: Addressing Disparities in Hospitalizations for African-American Patients in Academic Primary Care. Journal…

Publications:

1) 2023. Race, Racism, and Reproductive Justice in A Companion to the Anthropology of Reproductive Medicine and Technology, eds. Cecilia Coale Van Hollen and Nayantara Sheoran Appleton. Wiley-Blackwell Press, New Jersey.

2) 2023. Neither Happy Endings nor Ceaseless Misery: Pedagogical Reflections. The Scholar and Feminist Online. Issue 19.2| Fall 2023 — Reproductive Injustice

3) 2023. Anthropological knowledge under redaction: Meditations on race, health, and aesthetics. Medical Anthropology Quarterly. https://doi.org/10.1111/maq.12793 (open access!!)

4) Valente, Jessica, Johnson, Natrina, Edu, Ugo Felicia, Karliner, Leah S. (2020). Importance of Communication and Relationships: Addressing Disparities in Hospitalizations for African-American Patients in Academic Primary Care. Journal of General Internal Medicine, 35: 228-236.

5) 2019. Aesthetics Politics: Negotiations of Black Reproduction in Brazil. Medical Anthropology 38(8): 680-694. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01459740.2019.1665671

6) 2018. When Doctors Don't Tie: Hierarchical Medicalization, Reproduction, and Sterilization in Brazil. Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 32(4): 556-573. https://doi.org/10.1111/maq.12475

7) Ruth Goldstein, Ugo F. Edu, and Patricia Alvarez Astacio. 2017. Collaborations: Envisioning an Engaged Multimodal Future for Anthropology, "History of Anthropology Newsletter 41:http://histanthro.org/an-engaged-multimodal-future/

8) 2016. Black Bodies Matter: Black Lives Matter. Anthropology News, 57(3):18.

Current Research:1) The “Family Planned”: Racial Aesthetics, Sterilization, and Reproductive Fugitivity in Brazil, traces the influence of an economy of race, aesthetics, and sexuality on reproductive and sterilization practices of women in Brazil.2…

Current Research:

1) The “Family Planned”: Racial Aesthetics, Sterilization, and Reproductive Fugitivity in Brazil, traces the influence of an economy of race, aesthetics, and sexuality on reproductive and sterilization practices of women in Brazil.

2) Cosmetic Body Modifications in Nigeria

3) A collaborative project on obstetric racism and the reparative arts

4) A Homegrown Response to a Demographic Crisis

Future Research:1) Global Genital Modification Mapping Project2) Capoeira Angola and Health Disparities

Future Research:

1) Doula Trainings

2) Transnational egg donations

3) Postpartum Practices

Teaching:Currently teaching courses in the AI have taught gender and women studies and medical anthropology courses at the undergraduate level at both UC Berkeley and San Francisco State University.

Teaching:

I teach classes that bring together insights from Black feminist thought, medical anthropology, public & global health, and STS. I engage my students in critical thought, deep reflection, and opportunities to express themselves creatively. Some of my more popular classes include: Reproducing While Black: Politics of Black Reproduction and Black Health Matters: Wellness, Health & Self-Care.

Playwriting:"Securing Ties" is my first full length theatrical play based on my dissertation work. It was a Semifinalist for the 2018 Bay Area Playwrights Festival. Currently being edited after first public reading at UC Berkeley, May 4, 2016.Works-…

Playwriting:

"Securing Ties" is my first full length theatrical play based on my dissertation work. It was a Semifinalist for the 2018 Bay Area Playwrights Festival. Currently being edited after first public reading at UC Berkeley, May 4, 2016.

Works-in-progress: "Genitally Modified;" "Mbakara Edi Ekpo;" "Untitled."

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