Concentration: Health
Biography
Yasmine Ansari (she/her/او) received her MSc degree in International Relations of the Middle East from the University of Edinburgh and also holds a BA degree in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and International Studies from Seattle University. Her research interests revolve around feminist oral history, feminist biopolitics, abolitionist and anti-colonial feminist theory, reproductive justice, and reproductive politics and practices in the modern Middle East. Pursuing a PhD in GWS at UW-Madison, Ansari hopes to extend her research on reproductive politics in post-revolutionary Iran, focusing on the history and politics of abortion.