Section: Staff Profiles

Katharine Dow

Name
Dr Katharine Dow
Title
ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow
Organisation
Social Anthropology, School of Social and Political Science
University of Edinburgh
Address
5.01 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square Edinburgh UK EH8 9LD
Telephone
+44 (0)131 651 3894
E-Mail
Research Interests
Reproduction and assisted conception,Kinship and motherhood,Gender,Bioethics and concepts of nature,Anthropology of ethics,Capitalism, gift-exchange and consumption,Environmental anthropology,Human-animal relationships
URL
http://www.san.ed.ac.uk/staff/katharine_dow

Katharine Dow received her PhD in social anthropology from the London School of Economics in 2010, supported by a studentship from the ESRC. Before that, she obtained a BA and MSc in social anthropology from LSE. Her doctoral research is based on ethnographic fieldwork in rural Scotland. It examines people’s claims about the ethics of surrogacy in the context of their everyday lives, tracing the connections between ethics in claims and in practice.

Katharine is currently developing her doctoral work into publications and has recently presented her work in a number of forums. She is also developing work on ethical living and human-animal relationships based on her doctoral fieldwork. During this fellowship she will begin revising her thesis into a monograph, where she will further examine the contemporary status of nature as an ethical concept and the moral nature of kinship and reproduction, as seen through people’s judgements about surrogacy.

This page was published on 22 February 2011


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