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Gianna May Sanchez, PhD Candidate (she/her/hers)

Graduate Student
University of Michigan

Gianna May Sanchez is a PhD candidate at the University of Michigan. Her work primarily focuses on the history of medicine in the twentieth century American West, with particular interest in folk healing, curanderismo, and women’s health. Her dissertation, “Grandmothering Midwives: Negotiation, Legislation, and Medical Authority in the New Mexico Birthing Room, 1880 – 1950,” examines medical regulation, midwifery, and women’s health in twentieth century New Mexico. She is a Graduate Researcher for the Sterilization and Social Justice Lab at the Institute for Society and Genetics at UCLA. She is an editor for the public history site, Nursing Clio.

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