Department of Anthropology

Dr. Lucía Isabel Stavig is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Research on Race and Ethnicity in Society (CRRES) and Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Indiana University.

In 2025, Dr. Stavig will begin an appointment as Assistant Professor of Global Health Governance at the Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies. Prior to these appointments, she was a Penn-Mellon Just Futures Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania.

Her work appears in UCL Press, Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies, Anthropology and Humanism, and Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, and the International Working Group for Indigenous Affairs (IWGIA). 

She is Peruvian-American and has had the honor to learn with the Runa (Quechua) of the Cusco area, Las Abejas and the zapatistas in Chiapas, Mexico; the Rama people in Nicaragua; the Ñhäñhú (Otomí) in Hidalgo, Mexico; and the Kainai (Blackfoot) in southern Alberta.

Dr. Stavig’s research explores how Indigenous peoples’ struggles for health are also cosmopolitics, or political defenses of their lands and more-than-human relations. Her work in reproductive and Indigenous justice follows the efforts of First peoples from Canada to southern Peru to heal from colonial reproductive violences (including forced sterilization, forced contraception, obstetric violence, and genocide) to create Indigenous futures for generations to come.