Gabriela Morales,
Associate Professor of Anthropology; 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’s 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 “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
- Medical Anthropology
- Science, Medicine, and Colonialism
- Extractivism in Latin America
- Core B: Toxic