Cynthia Gabriel
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Professional Title
Lecturer IV of Women and Gender Studies
Department(s)
College of Literature, Science, and the Arts (LSA)
Women's & Gender Studies
About
Cynthia Gabriel researches reproductive health broadly, including cultural contributors to high cesarean rates, birth experiences, unattended births, professionalization of doulas, and reproductive health inequalities, specifically of African-Americans and Muslim-Americans in the United States.
Research Interests
humanities
social sciences
mixed methods
qualitative research
community-based research
activism
education
health
LGBTQ
Michigan Medicine
ethnography