Author: Emma Louise Backe

Emma Louise Backe is a PhD student in Anthropology at George Washington University. With a certificate in Global Gender Policy, Emma’s research in medical anthropology focuses on the politics of crisis, care and chronicity among survivors of sexual violence. She serves as a sexual violence advocate in Washington DC, in addition to managing The Geek Anthropologist.

Emma Louise Backe

Personalizing Access, Personalizing Praxis

June, 2018 / By Emma Louise Backe

Anthropology trained us to identify systems of oppression, those “invisibilized” dimensions of culture that reek of prejudice, privilege, and disproportionate […]