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Alyshia Gálvez
American anthropologist
Alyshia Gálvez is a cultural and medical anthropologist. She is a professor of Latin American and Latino Studies at Lehman College of City University of New York (CUNY).
Gálvez was substitute chair of the Department of Latin American and Latino Studies at Lehman College. She is the author of three single-authored books.
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Her book Patient Citizens, Immigrant Mothers: Mexican Women, Public Prenatal Care, and the Birth-weight Paradox which won the 2012 ALLA Book Award by the Association of Latino and Latina Anthropologists (ALLA).
Early life
Gálvez completed her PhD in Anthropology from New York University in 2004.[1]
Research and writing
In 2012, she was the founding-director of the Mexican Studies Institute at CUNY.
At the time, 43 percent of the student body in Bronx was Latino. One of its founding missions was to provide support for research, community projects, and organisations engaging with New York's Mexican diasp