Gabriela Morales,
Associate Professor of Anthropology
Pronouns: She/Her
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’s presidency (2006-2019). I am currently working on a second project, “Afterlives of Mining: Chronicity and Labor in the Bolivian Andes,” 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
- Introduction to Socio-Cultural Anthropology
- Medical Anthropology
- Science, Medicine, and Colonialism
- State and Society in Latin America