ANDREA L. FORD 3024 Woodleigh Lane, Cameron Park, CA 95682 * alillyf@uchicago.edu * (530) 558-3386

EDUCATION University of Chicago Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology June 2017 (expected)

• “Near Birth: Gendered Politics, Embodied Ecologies, and Ethical Futures in Californian Childbearing”

• Committee: Dr. Judith Farquhar, Dr. Joseph Masco, Dr. Julie Chu M.A. in Cultural Anthropology November 2011

• “The Mango Tree and the Crabs: Ghanaian Negotiations of Money and Community”

University of Ghana, Legon M.A. in African Studies May 2010

• “Wealth, Worldview, and Modernity: Economic Values in a Case Study of Students at the University of Ghana”

University of California, Berkeley B.A. in Interdisciplinary Studies August 2008

• Anthropology, Sociology, and Religious Studies; minor in English • Summa Cum Laude; Senior Honors Thesis

Study Abroad – Siena, Italy Spring 2007

PUBLICATIONS UNDER REVIEW

“Money, Love, and Liberation: Dichotomies and their Transgression in American Breastfeeding”

“Mercury, Microbes, and Stress: Fluid Ecologies in Californian Childbearing”

TEACHING - COURSES TAUGHT University of Chicago 2012-2017 Starr Lectureship, Anthropology Department, “The Lived Body”

▪ Lecturer, self designed course, Spring 2017 Global Studies Prize Lectureship, “Reproductive Worlds”

▪ Lecturer, self designed course, declined due to fellowship restrictions Social Sciences core course, “Power, Identity, and Resistance”

▪ Lecturer Fall 2015, TA Spring 2013, TA Winter 2013 Global Studies core course, “Contemporary Global Issues”

▪ TA Fall 2015, TA Fall 2012 Gender core course, “Gender and Sexuality in World Civilizations”

▪ TA Winter 2016

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Stanford University, Stanford Pre-Collegiate Studies Summer 2015, 2016 “Introduction to Cultural Anthropology”

▪ Instructor: designed curriculum from ground up, supervised two TAs ▪ Admissions Application Reader 2015, 2016

TEFL, Education First Summer 2014 Summer immersion programs in English for foreign high school students

▪ Instructor; designed lesson plans, mentored students UC Berkeley, DeCal Student Teaching Fall 2007 “Food, Religion and Hospitality in the International Community”

▪ College level, student-designed, credit-granting course

TEACHING - PEDAGOGY Chicago Center for Teaching, University of Chicago 2012-2016 Certificate in University Teaching Fall 2016

▪ “Eat Teach Talk Run” winner for best pedagogy tool ▪ Anthropology Pedagogy seminar ▪ Inclusivity in the Classroom seminar

TEFL/TESOL Certified Summer 2014 ▪ 120 hour Advanced TEFL Course EF

AWARDS and RECOGNITION University of Chicago William Rainey Harper Dissertation Completion Fellowship 2016-2017 Starr Lectureship Spring 2017 Global Studies Prize Lectureship Spring 2017 Mark Hanna Watkins Post-Field Fellowship Fall 2015 Graduate Travel Grant Fall 2015 Lichtstern Conference Grant Fall 2013, Fall 2014 Leiffer Pre-Field Grant Summer 2012 University Fellowship 2010-2015 Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) Professionalization Program 2010-2011

Rotary International Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship, University of Ghana 2009- 2010

UC Berkeley California Scholarship Federation 2004-2008 Robert C. Byrd Fellow 2004-2008 Cal Alumni Scholar 2004-2005

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PRESENTATIONS of WORK US Locations “Multi-Sited/Cited/Sighted” Conference, Chicago, IL June 2016 “Beyond Autonomy: Intergenerational Effects and Microscopic Transgressions in Bay Area Childbearing”

American Association of Geographers, San Francisco, CA April 2016 “Ethical Futures and the Imagination of Life in Californian Childbearing"

American Anthropological Association, Denver, CO November 2015 “Primal Pregnancies, Techno-mamas, and Cyborg Tensions in American Childbearing”

American Anthropological Association, Washington, DC November 2014 “Intuiting Care: Embodied Knowledge and Responsibility in American Childbearing”

American Anthropological Association, Chicago, IL November 2013 Second City Anthropology Conference, University of Illinois, Chicago March 2013

“Money, Love, and Liberation: Community Breast Milk Exchanges in the United States”

American Ethnological Society Conference, Chicago, IL April 2013 Society for Psychological Anthropology Meeting (joint ACYIG), San Diego, CA April 2013

“Cows for Sale and Milk for Free: Gifts, Profits, Body, and Species in Emerging Breast Milk Technologies”

Society for Applied Anthropology, Annual Meeting, Denver CO March 2013 Poster Session, “Biotechnology and Breast Milk”

Michigan State U. Africanist Graduate Student Conference, East Lansing, MI October 2011 “The Mango Tree and the Crabs: Ghanaian Negotiations of Money and Community”

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE The FrameWorks Institute, Washington, DC Feb 2013-present Research Fellow ▪Conducted intensive interviews with policy makers and members of the public ▪Uncovered cognitive frames, metaphors, and narratives to understand people’s desires,

biases, and reasoning ▪Collaborated to analyze responses in teams ▪Produced written reports advising policy makers how to communicate more effectively about

issues of public concern

Birth and Full-Spectrum Doula, Northern CA and Chicago 2012-present ▪ Assisted women with pregnancy, childbirth, pregnancy loss, conception/fertility

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▪ Trained and certified by DONA (Doulas of North America) ▪ Active in reproductive justice; volunteered with Chicago Volunteer Doulas and

Siena House (Santa Cruz), a home for vulnerable childbearing women ▪ Attended professional conferences and continuing education

Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA Nov 2014 - Sept 2015 Writer ▪ Wrote and published 2-5 blog entries/week; pitched stories; conducted interviews ▪ Translated cutting-edge research into prose accessible to broad audiences ▪ Worked on tight deadlines as part of the media team; kept abreast of current research

Riding Instructor, Northern CA and Chicago 2002-2012 ▪ Ten years professional experience coaching equestrian sports

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS and ACADEMIC SERVICE Association Memberships American Anthropological Association American Ethnological Society Society for Cultural Anthropology Society for Feminist Anthropology Society for Applied Anthropology American Geographer’s Association

US Locations Workshop Coordinator, University of Chicago 2012-2013 Scheduled presenters and discussants, led meetings, coordinated guest speakers

Council for Advanced Studies, University of Chicago 2011-present Presenter and discussant at interdisciplinary workshops: US Locations, Ecologies, Medicine and its Objects, Gender Studies, Self and Subjectivity, Knowledge/Value, African Studies

Resident Masters Special Assistant, Residential Housing, University of Chicago 2012-2013 Organized undergraduate social events, supervised team of three assistants

Knowledge/Value Conference, University of Chicago May 2011 Helped organize, participated in focus groups, conducted interviews with presenters

Host for Prospective PhD Students, University of Chicago 2011, 2012, 2013

LANGUAGES Fluent in French; Proficient in Italian and Spanish; studied Arabic and Twi (Ghana) Translator (French to English; professional academic work) 2008-2011

S. Fournier, University of Quebec; J. Karegide, Macalester College

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