Carmen Alvaro Jarrin

Dr. Carmen Alvaro Jarrín received their Ph.D. from Duke University and they are Associate Professor of
Anthropology at College of the Holy Cross. Their research explores the imbrication of medicine,
the body and inequality in Brazil, with foci on plastic surgery, genomics and gender
nonconforming activism. They are the author of The Biopolitics of Beauty: Cosmetic Citizenship
and Affective Capital in Brazil (University of California Press), which explored the eugenic
underpinnings of raciological thought among plastic surgeons, and the aesthetic hierarchies of
beauty that reinforce racial inequality in Brazil. They are also co-editor of two collections of
essays: Remaking the Human: Cosmetic Technologies of Body Repair, Reshaping and
Replacement (Berghahn Books), and Precarious Democracy: Ethnographies of Hope, Despair
and Resistance in Brazil (Rutgers University Press).