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Bonnie McElhinny (Ph.D. 1993, Stanford University) is an associate professor in anthropology and women and gender studies who works on issues linked to gender, the Philippines and the Filipino diaspora. Her SSHRC-funded research focuses on historical and contemporary investigations of North American interventions into Filipino health care and childcare practices, and reactions and resistance to these. Her current work includes an investigation into early 20th century attempts to address high infant mortality rates in the Philippines during the American colonial occupation, as a case study in imperial attempts to restructure affect and intimacy, and the ways debates about children were used as a terrain for imperial and nationalist arguments. She also coordinates a life history research group with Filipino-Canadian graduate and undergraduate students.

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