معرفی
Molly Fitzpatrick is a medical and political anthropologist affiliated with the University of Zurich, where she completed her PhD in 2022 and currently serves as a Research Fellow and lecturer in the ‘Social Transformation Processes’ chair led by Prof. Dr. Annuska Derks. Her work bridges Medical Anthropology, Gender Studies, and Political Anthropology, focusing on how individuals negotiate state and medical authority through practices of care, reproduction, and moral autonomy.
Research Interests
- Care as a moral and political practice
- Anthropology of reproduction and childbirth
- Gender, kinship, and bodily autonomy
- Globalization, transnationalism, and social movements
- Affect theory and emotional labor in healthcare
Scientific Awards
- Jahrespreis (2023): Recognized by the University of Zurich’s Philosophical Faculty for her PhD dissertation
Publications reflect a commitment to ethnographic rigor and interdisciplinary critique, spanning topics such as care ethics in Bali, methodological challenges in birth research, and transnational Gujarati communities. Her work emphasizes sensory ethnography and feminist theory.
