Elizabeth F.S. Roberts

Elizabeth F.S. Roberts is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Michigan's College of Literature, Science, and the Arts (LSA). She specializes in medical anthropology, science and technology studies, and Latin American/Ecuadorian research, focusing on health inequality and environmental justice.

• Director of "Mexican Exposures: A Bioethnographic Approach to Health and Inequality"
• Co-director of "Neighborhood Environments as Socio-Techno-Bio Systems (NESTSMX)"
• Founder of Mexico’s Ethnographic Coding Lab for undergraduate training
• Author of God’s Laboratory: Assisted Reproduction in the Andes (2012)
• Current manuscript: Vital Dependencies: A Bioethnography of Addiction in Mexico City

Her work integrates bioethnography - an interdisciplinary method combining social and life sciences - to study health disparities in working-class neighborhoods. She collaborates with engineers and environmental health scientists in Mexico City and has previously researched assisted reproduction in the U.S. and Ecuador.