Daisy Deomampo

Daisy Deomampo is a cultural and medical anthropologist whose research explores issues of race, gender, and kinship across fields of science and technology studies, biomedicine, and reproduction. She is the author of Transnational Reproduction: Race, Kinship, and Commercial Surrogacy in India (2016, NYU Press), which foregrounds issues of race and racialization in the context of transnational surrogacy in India. The book is based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork in India with Indian surrogate mothers, Western intended parents, and egg donors from around the world. Dr. Deomampo's research and writing have been supported by multiple sources including the National Science Foundation, the Wenner-Gren Foundation, and the Ford Foundation. Her current research explores how ideas of race, identity, and human difference influence reproductive practices in the context of egg and sperm donation among Asian Americans in the United States.

EDUCATION

• BS, University of Wisconsin-Madison;
• MA, The New School;
• PhD, City University of New York

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Medical anthropology, science and technology studies, race, gender, reproductive politics, global health, South Asia, Asian American Studies