Gabriela Morales,
Associate Professor of Anthropology; Director, Humanities Institute; Chair, Department of Anthropology
Pronouns: She/Her
Office Hours: By Appointment
Academic History
- Ph.D., Anthropology, Yale University (2017)
- M.Phil., Anthropology, Yale University (2013)
- B.A., Anthropology and English, University of Arizona (2010)
Academic Focus
Working at the intersections of medical and political anthropology, I write about health institutions and projects to transform health care provision in highland Bolivia.
My first book, Decolonizing Medicine: Indigenous Politics and the Practice of Care in Bolivia (Stanford University Press 2025), is an ethnography of Bolivian state-led efforts to decolonize the national health care system during Evo Morales鈥檚 presidency (2006-2019). The book was awarded the New Millenium Book Prize Honorable Mention from the Society for Medical Anthropology in 2025.
I am currently working on a second project, provisionally titled 鈥淎fterlives of Mining: Chronicity and Labor in the Bolivian Andes,鈥� that traces how Bolivian miners navigate chronic occupational illnesses after the shuttering of many mining centers and the health services they provided.
Courses Taught
- History of Anthropological Theory
- Medical Anthropology
- Science, Medicine, and Colonialism
- Extractivism in Latin America
- Core B: Toxic