Elizabeth FS Roberts
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Elizabeth F.S. Roberts is a professor of anthropology at the University of Michigan, who investigates scientific and public health knowledge production and its embodied effects in Latin America, where she focuses on a range of dynamic bodily processes, including chronic disease, chemical exposure, addiction and reproduction. Dr. Roberts currently collaborates with engineers environmental health scientists and economists to trace the looping social, economic, biological, and technical processes that shape everyday life, health, and inequality in working class neighborhoods in Mexico City. One of the key aims of Professor Roberts’ current work is the development of bioethnography, a method that combines social and life sciences approaches in order to make better knowledge about health and inequality. Dr. Roberts is the author of In Praise of Addiction: Or How We Can Learn to Love Dependency in a Damaged World (Princeton University Press, 2026) and God’s Laboratory: Assisted Reproduction in the Andes (U.C. California Press 2012).
- Elizabeth FS Roberts. 2026. Exposure and Devotion in Mexico City. Science, Religion, and Secularity: The View from Relations
- Figueroa, Juan Carlos, Elizabeth FS Roberts, Cole, Faith, Boudart, Zoe, Gordon, Talia, Rodríguez Atristain, Alejandra, Téllez-Rojo, Martha M., Figueroa Oropeza, José Luis, Sánchez, Brisa N.. 2025. Intermittent water supply and beverage consumption patterns among adolescents and adults in Mexico. A nationally representative, cross-sectional analysis. The Journal of Nutrition
- Michael Anastario, Cynthia Armendáriz-Arnez, Lillian Shakespeare Largo, Talia Gordon, Elizabeth FS Roberts. 2025. Rapid Agrichemical Inventory via Video Documentation and Large Language Model Identification. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 22(10):1527.
- Martinez-Mier, ..., Elizabeth FS Roberts, et al.. 2025. International fluoride symposium: effects of fluoride on human health and its mechanisms of action - a meeting report. BMC Proceedings 19(26):1-17.
- Hardon, Anita, Téllez-Rojo, Martha M., Anastario, Michael, Tan, Michael Lim, Alcala, Cecilia S., Echague, Precious A., Kuritzky, Amy, Gordon, Talia R., Boudart, Zoe, Sandoval, Mariana Rios, Elizabeth FS Roberts. 2025. Anthroposomics: integrating anthropological methods into exposome research. Environmental Health 24(1):1-14.
- Elizabeth FS Roberts. 2025. Grappling with Exposure in Mexico City. Current Anthropology
- Roberts, Elizabeth FS. 2017. Practicing population in Latin America. Perspectives on Science 25(5):704-711.
- Roberts, Elizabeth FS. 2017. What gets inside: Violent entanglements and toxic boundaries in Mexico City. Cultural Anthropology 32(4):592-619.
- Roberts, Elizabeth FS, Sanz, C . 2017. Bioethnography: A how-to guide for the twenty-first century. The Palgrave Handbook of Biology and Society :749-775.
- Roberts, Elizabeth FS, Whitmarsh, Ian . 2016. Nonsecular Medical Anthropology. Medical Anthropology 35(3):203-208.