Jessaca Leinaweaver

Jessaca Leinaweaver is the Vartan Gregorian Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Brown University. Her academic research and teaching interests include kinship, childhood, migration, and anthropological demography. She is the winner of the Margaret Mead Award for her first book, The Circulation of Children: Kinship, Adoption, and Morality in Andean Peru (Duke 2008). She is currently writing a book called Transnational Children: What Adoption and Migration Mean for a Global World, based on research in Spain on the international adoption and migration of Peruvians.