Cecilia Van Hollen

Cecilia Van Hollen is a Teaching Professor in the Asian Studies Program of the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. She is a cultural and medical anthropologist whose research focuses empirically on social and cultural dimensions of health, medicine, the body, and global and public health policy in India, and theoretically on globalization and modernity; feminism and gender studies; critical medical anthropology; and social inequality and power. Her ethnographic projects have explored the intersections of class, caste and gender as women seek care for reproductive health, HIV/AIDS, and cancer in Tamil Nadu, South India. She is the author of 'Birth on the Threshold: Childbirth and Modernity in South India' (University of California Press, 2003); 'Birth in the Age of AIDS: Women, Reproduction, and HIV/AIDS in India' (Stanford University Press, 2013); and 'Cancer and the Kali Yuga: Gender, Inequality and Health in South India' (University of California Press, 2022).

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