Corinna S. Guerzoni

Corinna S. Guerzoni (PhD) is a Tenured-Track Researcher at the Department of Cultural Heritage at the University of Bologna (Italy), and a Visiting Researcher at the Department of Social Work at University of Quebec in Outaouais (Canada).
In 2016, she was a visiting scholar at the Department of Women’s Studies at San Diego State University (California). In 2017, after obtaining her doctorate at the University of Milano-Bicocca, she moved to California where she was a postdoctoral researcher, from 2017 to 2020, at the WFI in Los Angeles. In 2022, she was a Visiting Researcher at the University of Cambridge (UK) and in the same year she won two of the most prestigious international scholarships, one from the United States (Wenner- Gren Foundation), the other from the European Commission (Marie Sklodowska Curie scholarship, MSCA). With funding from the MSCA, she will lead an ethnographic study entitled In Vitro Futures: An Anthropological Study of Embryo Adoption Between Canada and Spain.
Her main research interests are the anthropology of reproduction, the anthropology of kinship, research methodologies and ethics. She published the first ethnography on same-sex parenthood in Italy (Sistemi procreativi. Etnografia dell’omogenitorialità in Italia, 2020).