Kelsey Marr
- Courses4
- Reviews11
- School: University of Saskatchewan
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- Department: Anthropology
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Location:
Saskatoon, SK - Dates at University of Saskatchewan: April 2017 - August 2019
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Biography
University of Saskatchewan - Anthropology
Medical Anthropologist and PhD student with a passion for researching reproduction, nationalism, and immigration.
Research
Kelsey
Marr
Sweden
I am an experienced ethnographic researcher who works at the intersections of Medical Anthropology, Gender Studies, and Science and Technology Studies. My passion is working with young women to unpack their reproductive decision-making as a lens for understanding Swedish politics. I am pursuing my PhD in Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of British Columbia Okanagan, and am currently a Research Trainee with the Forum for Gender Studies at Mid Sweden University in Sundsvall. I am always interested in collaborations and future opportunities.
Experience
The University of British Columbia
Graduate Research Assistant
Kelsey worked at The University of British Columbia as a Graduate Research Assistant
The University of British Columbia
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Kelsey worked at The University of British Columbia as a Graduate Teaching Assistant
University of Saskatchewan
Graduate Student & TA
Kelsey worked at University of Saskatchewan as a Graduate Student & TA
University of Saskatchewan
Graduate Teaching Fellow
Kelsey worked at University of Saskatchewan as a Graduate Teaching Fellow
Univeristy of British Columbia Okanagan
Sessional Instructor
Kelsey worked at Univeristy of British Columbia Okanagan as a Sessional Instructor
UPEI
Student Mentor
Kelsey worked at UPEI as a Student Mentor
UPEI Student Union
VP Communications
Kelsey worked at UPEI Student Union as a VP Communications
Education
University of Saskatchewan
Master’s Degree
Medical Anthropology
University of Saskatchewan
Graduate Student & TA
University of Saskatchewan
Graduate Teaching Fellow
The University of British Columbia
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD
Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies
The University of British Columbia
Graduate Research Assistant
The University of British Columbia
Graduate Teaching Assistant
University of Prince Edward Island
Bachelor of Arts (BA)
Medical Anthropology, Spanish
Publications
"Being a Woman Woman": Performing Femininity at the Intersections of Motherhood, Womanhood, and the Academy
Journal of the Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community Involvement
Global trends of delayed motherhood long-term postsecondary education, and the proliferation of assisted reproductive technologies have been associated with women who work in the academy as post-graduate students and professors. In 2015, I worked with postgraduate students at the University of Saskatchewan to explore how these trends affect students’ imagined reproductive futures. In this paper, I examine the relationships among delayed motherhood, studenthood, and performances of femininity in the imagined reproductive futures of women postgraduate students. Whereas previous studies have focused on the disruption and (re)performance of gender within the context of infertility, I examine how in participants’ imagined reproductive futures, it is their careers and education that they highlight as they negotiate gendered identities. I argue that by engaging with discourses and performances of “being a good mother” and the “superwoman” identity, participants repair the threat posed by academic and professional lives to their femininity, and they naturalize their imagined reproductive futures in which they are both academics, professionals, and mothers. In doing so, femininity is an assemblage enacted through participants’ own actions, words, and performances. By examining how postgraduate students enact performances of femininity in their imagined reproductive futures, motherhood scholars can open a discussion on the tensions between the cultural norms of parenthood and student culture.
