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Sandra Bamford is an Associate Professor and Chair at the University of Toronto Scarborough (UTSC), affiliated with the Department of Anthropology. Her research focuses on kinship systems, cultural anthropology, and the anthropology of science, with fieldwork in Papua New Guinea, North America, and Europe. She examines topics such as New Reproductive Technologies, foster care systems in Canada, and the interplay between environment and sociality.
Education: PhD in Anthropology from the University of Virginia (1997). She has served as a reviewer for journals like Body and Society and Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, and grants evaluator for the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
Key research areas include kinship studies, gender/sexuality, and embodiment, with a regional specialization in Melanesian societies. Her work challenges genealogical models of kinship through studies of the Kamea people in Papua New Guinea and explores how foster care policies reshape kinship in North America.
Recent publications include Biology Unmoored: Melanesian Reflections on Life and Biotechnology (2007) and edited volumes such as Identity, Nature and Culture (1998). Her research has been supported by major grants including SSHRC Standard Research Grants (2010, 2000) and the Connaught New Staff Matching Grant (2001).
Teaching spans undergraduate and graduate courses in kinship, feminist anthropology, political ecology, and the anthropology of science. She has advised four graduate students and contributed to collaborative projects like the Cambridge Handbook for the Anthropology of Kinship (forthcoming).
