Karin Friederic is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Wake Forest University. A cultural anthropologist, Karin specializes in global health, human rights, development, gender, sexuality, and violence. Her most recent research examines how ideas about human rights are changing both women and men’s experiences of and responses to intimate partner violence in rural Ecuador. Recently, her research has been accepted for publication in Practicing Anthropology, Latin American Perspectives, and Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology. Her research and engagement has been supported by funding from the National Science Foundation, the Wenner Gren Foundation, PEO Scholars, the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, and the Feminist Review Trust. In 2014, she received a grant from Feminist Review Trust to implement a project entitled “A Multipronged Approach to Combating Intimate-Partner Violence in Rural Coastal Ecuador” (see here for more details) from 2014 to 2015. Karin has also just been awarded the 2015-2016 Campbell Fellowship for Transformative Research on Women in the Developing World, awarded by the School for Advanced Research in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where she will be completing a book manuscript during the Fall of 2015. Since the year 2000, Karin has worked with Ecuadorian communities in their efforts to obtain quality healthcare. In 2003, she cofounded a nonprofit organization, The Minga Foundation, which is dedicated to improving global health through community based development. Current projects include: a health and communications project in coastal Ecuador, the provision of clean water to communities in Butakoola, Uganda, and the building of a community library in Malawi. She joined the Department of Anthropology at Wake Forest University in 2012 after completing her Ph.D. at the University of Arizona in 2011 and serving as a Faculty Fellow at Colby College in Maine for one year. She received her BA in Anthropology from The Colorado College.Karin Friederic is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Wake Forest University. A cultural anthropologist, Karin specializes in global health, human rights, development, gender, sexuality, and violence. Her most recent research examines how ideas about human rights are changing both women and men’s experiences of and responses to intimate partner violence in rural Ecuador. Recently, her research has been accepted for publication in Practicing Anthropology, Latin American Perspectives, and Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology. Her research and engagement has been supported by funding from the National Science Foundation, the Wenner Gren Foundation, PEO Scholars, the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, and the Feminist Review Trust. In 2014, she received a grant from Feminist Review Trust to implement a project entitled “A Multipronged Approach to Combating Intimate-Partner Violence in Rural Coastal Ecuador” (see here for more details) from 2014 to 2015. Karin has also just been awarded the 2015-2016 Campbell Fellowship for Transformative Research on Women in the Developing World, awarded by the School for Advanced Research in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where she will be completing a book manuscript during the Fall of 2015. Since the year 2000, Karin has worked with Ecuadorian communities in their efforts to obtain quality healthcare. In 2003, she cofounded a nonprofit organization, The Minga Foundation, which is dedicated to improving global health through community based development. Current projects include: a health and communications project in coastal Ecuador, the provision of clean water to communities in Butakoola, Uganda, and the building of a community library in Malawi. She joined the Department of Anthropology at Wake Forest University in 2012 after completing her Ph.D. at the University of Arizona in 2011 and serving as a Faculty Fellow at Colby College in Maine for one year. She received her BA in Anthropology from The Colorado College.