Dr Katie Dow is a visiting fellow in Anthropology at the University of Copenhagen and was formerly senior research associate and deputy director of the Reproductive Sociology Research Group (ReproSoc) in Cambridge. Dow specialises in connections between reproductive and environmental concerns and activism, from a multispecies perspective. Previously, she was an ESRC postdoctoral fellow at the University of Edinburgh. She was awarded her PhD in social anthropology by the London School of Economics.
Dr Dow's research centres on intersections between concerns about the environment, reproduction and kinship, from a multispecies perspective. She is particularly concerned with the ways in which ideas of nature and naturalness are implicated in politics and ethics, as well as the ways in which intersecting inequalities structure parenting and reproduction. Dow is an anthropologist by training, and draws on both anthropological and sociological concepts and theories in her work, including scholarship in medical anthropology, feminist science studies, intersectional feminism, queer theory, food studies, political ecology and kinship studies.
