Assoc Prof Carla Tsampiras

Carla is an associate professor in Medical and Health Humanities, in the Division of Social and Behavioural Sciences, in the School of Public Health, at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. She is a health historian interested in sexuality, ‘race’, class, and gender and has worked on HIV and AIDS; gender, violence and slavery; and feminism and humanities in health sciences education. Her current research and teaching focuses on connections between flesh foods, violence, gender and health (that of earthlings and the planet). She is a founding member of the Medical and Health Humanities Africa (MHHA) network, and an advisory board member of Environmental Humanities South, the Institute for Medical Humanities, Durham, UK and the Reimagining Reproduction project at the University of Pretoria, South Africa.