Silvia De Zordo received a PhD in Social Anthropology from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris in September 2008. Her research interests encompass family planning, contraception and abortion in Latin America, as well as gender studies, among other areas. After her PhD she was awarded a Postdoctoral Ellertson Fellowship at Columbia University-Mailman School of Public Health-Dept. of Population and Family Health, where she developed a research project on health professionals’ moral and religious convictions and their perceptions of legal and illegal abortion in Brazil. As a Marie Curie Fellow at Goldsmiths-University of London (UK) she undertook a new research project on health professionals’ experiences and attitudes towards abortion and conscientious objection in Italy and the UK. She is continuing her research on abortion and conscientious objection in 2013-2015 in Spain, where she has been awarded a Beatriu de Pinós Fellowship at the University of Barcelona (Catalunya).

Dr. Silvia De Zordo
Postdoctoral Beatriu de Pinós Fellow
Universitat de Barcelona
Departamento de Antropología Cultural y de Historia de América y África
Montalegre 6-8, 08001 Barcelona, Spain  
Email: silviadezordo@ub.edu
Tel. 0034.693240347  FAX: 9340 37774