Carina Heckert, PhD
Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Texas at El Paso
Areas of Expertise: Medical anthropology, maternal health, immigration, ethnographic research methods, Latin America, US-Mexico border
Carina Heckert is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Texas at El Paso. Broadly, her research focuses on how policies shape illness experiences and experiences seeking healthcare. Her most recent research explores the ways immigration and border policies generate harm for Latinas in the US-Mexico border region during pregnancy, birth, and the postpartum period. Her second book, Birth in Times of Despair: Reproductive Violence on the US-Mexico Border (New York University Press, 2024), is based on this research. Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Wenner-Gren Foundation, and the Latino Center for Leadership Development at Southern Methodist University.
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