Christina Weis

Social & Cultural Anthropologist | Yoga Teacher

I am a feminist anthropologist researching in/fertility, (assisted) reproduction and reproductive stratification. I currently work as a research fellow at the Centre for Reproduction Research at De Montfort University in Leicester.

I am also a capoerista, a yoga teacher and an AcroYoga teacher. If you now wonder what that is check below - or ask me when you see me and I promise you, I won't tell you but show you by teaching you how to fly.

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I hold a PhD in Sociology with Anthropology from De Montfort University (2017). My PhD examines the social organisation and cultural framing of commercial gestational surrogacy in Russia and is titled ‘Reproductive Migrations. Surrogacy Workers and Reproductive Stratifications in St Petersburg’. I received my BA in Social and Cultural Anthropology from the University of Vienna, Austria, in 2010, and my MSc in Cultural Anthropology: Sociocultural Transformations (research) from Utrecht University, Netherlands, in 2013.

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In 2010/2011 I lived and worked in Chisinau, Moldova, and worked as a social assistant in a shelter for former victims of human trafficking, and in 2006/2007 with homeless young people in Bucuresti, Romania.  

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I have no idea how many miles I have hitchhiked in total, but between criss-crossing Europe, hitchhiking my way to Iran and from the Fergana Valley to the Aral Lake, I covered quite some. I believe in creating what we want to exist and the power of compassion. 

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No day passes without a headstand.*

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*2020 update: Handstand it is.