Dr. Mary Alice Scott
Ph.D., University of Kentucky, 2010; Assistant Professor
Dr. Scott is a medical anthropologist whose research interests include the examination of health and illness production through the lens of intersectionality, particularly in the areas of transnational migration and public health systems. She is also interested in participatory methodologies and action-oriented research.
E-mail: mscott2@nmsu.edu
Phone: 575-646-3720
Current Research
My research in a sugar cane producing community in southern Veracruz, Mexico focuses on women whose family members have traveled to the U.S.-Mexico border and into the United States seeking work. I examine the intensification of women’s paid labor and unpaid reproductive labor, the production of illegal deportable subjects at the U.S.-Mexico border, and the neoliberalization of the public health sector in Mexico. I use ethnography and case studies to explore the multiple contexts in which poor, rural, Mexican women experience health and illness. Future research plans include further examination of the connections between reproductive labor and health in the context of transnational labor migration and continuing health care system reforms in Mexico. I am also interested in developing a bi-national research agenda that will also include the examination of similar issues in the context of health care reforms in the United States.