Predoctoral Students

Sallie Han

Sallie Han Sallie Han is a pre-doctoral fellow at the Center for the Ethnography of Everyday Life and a doctoral candidate in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Michigan.

Her research interests include kinship, gender, reproduction, the body, personhood, medical anthropology, science and technology studies, and the anthropology of the United States.

Currently, Sallie is at work on her dissertation project. Tentatively titled, "The Baby in the Belly: Pregnancy Practices as Kin and Person-Making Processes in the Contemporary United States," the dissertation will examine how pregnant women, through their everyday activities such as eating, exercise, prenatal care, shopping, and talk, actively engage in the construction and constitution of familial roles, subjects, and relationships.

For more information about this project, please visit Sallie's Web site at http://pregnancyproject.tripod.com.

Sallie is a former staff writer at the New York Daily News. She is a 1992 graduate of Williams College. She lives in Ann Arbor with her husband, Jason Antrosio, an anthropologist whose research focuses on modernization and development in the Colombian Andes. Outside of anthropology, their interests include good food and conversation, yoga, and playing in a rock band. Sallie and Jason support Dennis Kucinich for President in 2004. They are expecting their first child in March 2004.