Greta Friedemann-Sánchez Bio

A native of Colombia, Greta Friedemann-Sánchez is an associate professor of international development in the global policy area. She is an economic and medical anthropologist interested in women's empowerment and gender equity. Her research aims to understand how and why gender equity or inequity is generated inside of homes through the interlacing of family bargaining dynamics, policy, and cultural norms. Dr. Friedemann-Sánchez's research unravels the complex web of intra-household relationships through four strands of scholarship: paid labor, property ownership, domestic violence, and unpaid caregiving labor. Dr. Friedemann-Sánchez is currently the Principal Investigator of the project "Colombia Individual Survey on Assets, Care, and Violence" (LIVES) which aims to fill these gaps. Friedemann-Sánchez’ research has informed policymaking. Some examples include Colombia where agro-industrial floriculture farms have recently changed their human resources program design and in the United States, where legislation was recently passed providing financial and instrumental support for caregivers of severely injured veterans. She is the author of Assembling Flowers and Cultivating Homes: Labor and Gender in Colombia. Lanham: Lexington Books (2006). A few of Friedemann-Sánchez’ publications in 2012 include: “Legal Literacy and Immovable Property: Laws, Norms and Practices in Colombia” (2012) in Development and Change. 43(6): 1361-1384, “Intimate Partner Violence in Colombia: Who is at Risk?” (2012), with Rodrigo Lovatón Dávila in Social Forces 91(2): 663-688; “Caregiving Patterns in Andean Rural Colombia” in Feminist Economics 18(3): 55-80., “Paid Agro-Industrial Work and Unpaid Caregiving: The Gendered Dialectics Between Structure and Agency in Colombia” in the Anthropology of Work Review 23 (2): 34-46; and Griffin, Joan M., Greta Friedemann-Sánchez, Agnes Jensen, Brent C. Taylor, Amy Gravely, Barbara Clothier, Alisha Baines Simon, Ann Bangerter, Treven Pickett, Christina Thors, Sherry Ceperich, John Poole, Michelle van Ryn. “The Invisible Side of War: Families Caring For US Service Members with Traumatic Brain Injuries and Polytrauma” in the Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation 27(1): 3-13.