Ugo Edu

Ugo Edu

Ugo Edu

Assistant Professor

Email: uedu@g.ucla.edu

Tea Time (Office Hours): Wed. 10am-11am & 12:30pm-1:30pm

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Biography

Assistant Professor, Department of African American Studies

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 is working on a play, Securing Ties, which 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