Ugo Edu
Ugo Edu
Assistant Professor of African American Studies & Medical Anthropology
Email: uedu@g.ucla.edu
Tea Time (Office Hours):
Thursdays 10:30am-12:30pm
Schedule Tea Time:
https://calendly.com/ugoedu/teatime
Biography
Ugo Edu is a medical anthropologist working at the intersection of medical anthropology, public health, black feminism, and science, technology, and society studies (STS). Using interdisciplinary approaches, her scholarship focuses on reproductive and sexual health, gender, race, aesthetics, body knowledge, and body modifications. Her book project: 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. She will publish her first play as a bi-lingual edition titled, “Em Busca da Ligadura/Securing Ties, September 2024. The play draws heavily on her book project as a means for critical public engagement and an incorporation of the arts in her scholarship. She is an Assistant Professor in the African American Studies Department and leads the Black ASH Lab at UCLA.
Education
- PhD, Medical Anthropology, University of California, San Francisco and University of California, Berkeley, 2015
- MPH, International Health, Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM), Atlanta, Georgia, 2007
- BS, Physiological Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), California, 2003
Publications
- Edu, Ugo Felicia. (2023). Anthropological Knowledge Under Redaction: Meditations on Race, Health, and Aesthetics. Medical Anthropology Quarterly.
- Edu, Ugo Felicia. (2019). Aesthetics Politics: Negotiations of Black Reproduction in Brazil. Medical Anthropology, 38(8): 680-694.
- Edu, Ugo Felicia. (2018). When Doctors Don’t Tie: Hierarchical Medicalization, Reproduction, and Sterilization in Brazil. Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 32(4): 556-573.
