Overview
Karina is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Anthropology. Her research interests include humanitarianism, immigration, kinship, and the state. In addition, Karina's research is grounded in reproductive justice frameworks and community-engaged research methods. Her current dissertation project traces how notions of motherhood both inform political movements and are similarly fashioned as political identities among Boston’s Haitian diaspora. In particular, she considers how practices of mutual care, concern, and obligation serve as an important politics for understanding the role of love in the pursuit of transformative political realities. Her research has been generously supported by the American Council of Learned Societies (Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowship) and the Wenner-Gren Foundation.
Karina is trained as a birthing and perinatal loss doula, and is completing training as a Certified Lactation Counselor (CLC). She earned a BA in International Studies, French, and Economics from Manhattanville College and an MPA in Domestic Politics from Princeton University's School of International and Public Affairs.