Elise Andaya

In Cuba Elise Andaya focused on how the fall of the Soviet Union effected economics and ideals and in turn how they changed views on reproduction, gender, and kinship strategies as well as prenatal care. Andaya interviewed lay people as well as medically trained professionals. She visited neighborhood clinics and attended consultations pertaining to reproduction. The objective of her research was to explore the way changes in politics and economics effect families and reproduction. Her research culminated multiple publications. In April 2014{{Cite journal |date=2013-01-01 |title=notes on contributors |journal=Feminist Studies |volume=39 |issue=3 |pages=822–824 |doi=10.1353/fem.2013.0030 |jstor=23719438}} her book "Conceiving Cuba: Reproduction, Women, and the State in the Post-Soviet Era" was published by Rutgers University Press, and is taught at Princeton University in the class "Medicine and Society in Contemporary Cuba".{{Cite web |last=University |first=Princeton |title=Course Details « Office of the Registrar |url=https://registrar.princeton.edu/course-offerings/course_details.xml?courseid=013555&term=1164 |access-date=2017-02-24 |website=registrar.princeton.edu}}

In 2007 she published her dissertation "Reproducing the Revolution: Gender, Kinship, in Contemporary Cuba". Her dissertation argues that Cuba's struggling economy is connected to low fertility rates. She asserts that the government's lack of care, men's general indifference toward children, and the difficulty of obtaining contraceptives cause women to seek abortions.{{Cite journal |last=Härkönen |first=Heidi |date=2015-06-01 |title=Negotiating desirability and material resources: changing expectations on men in post-Soviet Havana |url=https://etnografica.revues.org/4032 |journal=Etnográfica. Revista do Centro Em Rede de Investigação Em Antropologia |language=en |volume=19 |issue=2 |pages=367–388 |doi=10.4000/etnografica.4032 |issn=0873-6561 |doi-access=free}} In 2009 her article "The Gift of Health" was published.{{Cite web |title=Elise Andaya - Publications |url=https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Elise_Andaya/publications |access-date=2017-02-23 |website=www.researchgate.net |language=en}} This article discussed how larger changes in socialism effect the care of patients. Andaya argues that due to the destabilization of the Cuban Government, healthcare no longer follows the socialist idea of egalitarianism, instead it is based on small "gifts" given as payment for the doctor. Andaya argues that this represents the beginning of a market economy.{{Cite journal |last=Lincoln |first=Martha |year=2010 |title=Something to Say Thank You |journal=Anthropology Now |volume=2 |pages=57–58}}

Andaya's work was reviewed by Latin American Politics & Society which wrote that her "study succeeds in giving us a subtle and complex picture (which broad-brush approaches cannot) of how the complicated, and often contradictory politics and policies of reproduction emerged in Cuba after 1959."{{Cite journal |last=Kapcia |first=Antoni |date=2016-06-01 |title=Cuba Just Yesterday and Today: Negotiating Toward What, Exactly? |journal=Latin American Politics and Society |language=en |volume=58 |issue=2 |pages=148–156 |doi=10.1111/j.1548-2456.2016.00303.x |issn=1548-2456 |s2cid=146553417}} The Journal of Pan African Studies writes that Andaya's book, Conceiving Cuba: Reproduction, Women, and the State in the Post-Soviet Era, "considers not only how socialist policies have profoundly affected the ways Cuban families imagine the future, but also how the current crisis in reproduction has deeply influenced ordinary Cubans' views on socialism and the future of the revolution."{{Cite journal |date=July 2015 |title=Conceiving Cuba: Reproduction, Women, and the State in the Post-Soviet Era |url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=108372629&site=ehost-live |journal=Journal of Pan African Studies |volume=8 |issue=2 |pages=330 |url-access=subscription |via=EBSCOhost}}

She recently conducted a five-year observation period of the practices surrounding breast feeding in Bronx, New York City. She focused on one public hospital to observe and examined how health care and health-seeking for women who work in low-paying service-center jobs was affected by time and scheduling issues. She is currently working with social scientists to synthesize the information she collected.

In April 2004 she was awarded a grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation to do research for her dissertation.{{Cite web|url=http://www.wennergren.org/grantees/andaya-elise|title=Andaya, Elise {{!}} The Wenner-Gren foundation|website=www.wennergren.org|language=en|access-date=2017-02-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170403194824/http://www.wennergren.org/grantees/andaya-elise|archive-date=2017-04-03|url-status=dead}} She conducted participant observation in Havana, Cuba for her dissertation: "Reproducing the Revolution: Gender, Kinship, and the State in Contemporary Cuba", which was supervised by Dr. Rayna Rapp.{{Cite journal|last=Hamilton|first=Carrie|date=2016|title=Conceiving Cuba: Reproduction, Women, and the State in the Post-Soviet Era (review)|journal=New West Indian Guide|volume=90|issue=1|pages=137–138|doi=10.1163/22134360-09001027|doi-access=free}}

• "Conceiving Cuba: Reproduction, Women, and the State in the Post-Soviet Era" received the title of best book about reproduction in 2014 from the Adele E. Clark Book Awards.{{Cite web|url=https://networks.h-net.org/node/9782/discussions/92249/announcing-winner-2015-adele-e-clarke-book-award|title=Announcing the winner of the 2015 Adele E. Clarke Book Award {{!}} H-Sci-Med-Tech {{!}} H-Net|website=networks.h-net.org|language=en|access-date=2017-04-03}}{{Cite web|url=http://anthropology.as.nyu.edu/object/anthro.ne.studenthonors|title=Graduate Student Honors and Awards, Anthropology {{!}} New York University|website=anthropology.as.nyu.edu|access-date=2017-02-24}}
• "Conceiving Cuba: Reproduction, Women, and the State in the Post-Soviet Era" received an honorable mention for a first book in feminist Anthropology from the Michelle Z. Rosoldo Prize.{{Cite web|url=http://afa.americananthro.org/michelle-rosaldo-book-prize-winners/|title=Michelle Rosaldo Book Prize Winners & interview {{!}} Association for Feminist Anthropology|website=afa.americananthro.org|language=en-US|access-date=2017-04-03}}

• Andaya, Elise. Conceiving Cuba: Reproduction, Women, and the State in the Post-Soviet Era. Rutgers University Press, 2014. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt6wq9z3. Accessed 19 Feb. 2025.
• Andaya, Elise, Pregnant at Work: Low-Wage Workers, Power, and Temporal Injustice (New York, NY, 2024; online edn, NYU Press Scholarship Online, 19 Sept. 2024), https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479817610.001.0001, accessed 18 Feb. 2025.

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• http://www.albany.edu/anthro/files/Andaya_CV_April_2016.pdf {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160918020212/http://www.albany.edu/anthro/files/Andaya_CV_April_2016.pdf |date=2016-09-18 }}
• http://wamc.org/post/post-fidel-castro-new-future-cuba {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170221085552/http://wamc.org/post/post-fidel-castro-new-future-cuba |date=2017-02-21 }}

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