Jennifer Aengst (Ph.D. from the University of California, Davis) is a medical anthropologist with 20 years of experience researching health, gender, and development issues in India, Nepal, Guatemala, and the United States. Since 2011, she has been teaching anthropology at PSU and conducting health research at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) on the development of new contraceptive technologies, autism, and emergency medicine. Her current research interests address how narrative storytelling and graphic medicine can help build trust and alleviate health disparities.
Selected Works:
- Aengst, J, Harrington E, Bahulekar P, Shivkumar P, Jensen J, and Garg BS (2016) “Perceptions of Nonsurgical Permanent Contraception in India: exploratory research,” Indian Journal of Public Health. https://doi.org/10.4103/0019-557x.200261
- Harrington EK, Gordon D, Osgood-Roach I, Jensen JT, and Aengst J (2014) “Conceptualizing risk and effectiveness: A qualitative study of women’s and providers’ perceptions on nonsurgical female permanent contraception,” Contraception Vol 90, Issue 3, pg 349-350. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.contraception.2015.03.002
- Aengst, Jennifer (2014) “Silences and Moral Narratives: Infanticide as Reproductive Disruption,” Medical Anthropology. Vol. 33, Issue 4. https://doi.org/10.1080/01459740.2013.871281
- Aengst, Jennifer (2014) “Adolescent Movements: Dating, Elopements, and Youth Policing in Ladakh, India” Ethnos. https://doi.org/10.1080/00141844.2013.817459
- Aengst, Jennifer (2013) “The Politics of Fertility: Population and Pronatalism in Ladakh” Himalaya: The Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies, Vol. 32: No.1, Article 11.
- Aengst, Jennifer and Layne, Linda (2010) “A Need to Bleed? A Feminist Technology Assessment of Menstrual Suppressing Birth Control Pills” In Layne, Vostral, and Boyer (Eds.) Feminist Technology Chicago, IL: University of Illinois Press.
Courses Taught:
- Anth 103 Introduction to Social/Cultural Anthropology
- Anth 300U The Modern World in Anthropological Perspectives
- Anth 301 The Politics of Ethnographic Writing
- Anth 317U South Asias
- Anth 333U Anthropology of Food
- Anth 325U Culture, Health, and Healing
- Anth 412/512 Ethnographic Methods
- Anth 415/515 Applied Anthropology
- Anth 425/525 Topics in Medical Anthropology
- Anth 428/528 Political Anthropology
- Anth 432/532 Gender, Sex, and Sexuality in Anthropological Perspective