Alyshia Gálvez

Alyshia Gálvez is a cultural and medical anthropologist. She is a professor of Latin American and Latino Studies at Lehman College of City University of New York (CUNY). Gálvez is also the chair of the Department of Latin American and Latino Studies at Lehman College. She is the author of three single-authored books. Her book ''Patient Citizens, Immigrant Mothers: Mexican Women, Public Prenatal Care, and the Birth-weight Paradox'' which won the 2012 ALLA Book Award by the Association of Latino and Latina Anthropologists (ALLA). Provided by Wikipedia