Hope Bastian

Medical Anthropologist

Lactation Peer Counselor

Digital Ethnographer

Educator

I am an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Wheaton College, Massachusetts and author of Everyday Adjustments in Havana: Economic Reforms, Mobility and Emerging Inequalities  which examines the impacts of economic reforms on everyday life and inequalities in Socialist Cuba. 

My current research explores social movements around birth, breastfeeding, LBGTQ+ rights, and gender violence in Cuba’s emerging virtual public sphere. This work builds on my previous studies of the impacts of economic reforms on everyday life and inequalities in Cuba.

Before coming to Wheaton College I taught at the University of Havana's Colegio San Geronimo and worked for the Consortium for Advanced Studies Abroad at the Casa de las Américas in Havana.