Aline Gubrium is Assistant Professor of Public Health at the University of
Massachusetts-Amherst. Dr. Gubrium received her Ph.D. degree in Cultural Anthropology
from the University of Florida and is presently exploring the narrative dimensions of
reproductive technologies in the everyday lives of women of color, as well as Black
women’s experiences with breast cancer.
Dr. Gubrium's interest in gender socialization stems from her previous work on
several ethnographic projects dealing with rural women's sexuality and drug use
issues in the southern U.S. Her dissertation, entitled Growing Up Stories: Narratives of
Rural African-American Women, focuses on local constructions of gender socialization and
the ways that the study participants take up two discourses--Afrocentric and American
Dream--as resources in assembling their narratives.
In the past, she has worked on projects dealing with institutional perspectives on
violence against women in Java, Indonesia, and the social construction of victim and
transmitter of HIV in a South African context.
