Kathleen (Katie) Stansbury (she/her) is a graduate student at the University of Nevada Las Vegas studying biopower, necropolitics and institutional violence. Her current research centers on violence experienced through interaction with Western biomedical systems, integrating critical medical anthropology and bioarchaeology. Prior to attending UNLV, she focused on state-specific histories of forced sterilization. Her MA project used musculoskeletal markers to consider gendered patterns of labor in systems of violent captivity. She focuses on the use of queer, feminist, and disability theory in biological anthropology.