IE Brown Executive MBA

Jessaca Leinaweaver conducts research in cultural anthropology and anthropological demography within Peru and the Peruvian diaspora. She has published on informal child fostering in the urban Andes, aging in Andean Peru, and transnational adoption and migration from Peru to Spain. 

She is the winner of the Margaret Mead Award for her first book, The Circulation of Children: Kinship, Adoption, and Morality in Andean Peru (Duke, 2008), about informal child fostering and child migration in the urban Andes. Her second book, Adoptive Migration: Raising Latinos in Spain (Duke, 2013), identifies unexpected similarities between international migration and adoption, and analyzes the consequences for transracial adoptees of relocating to a diverse society with sizable immigrant populations. 

Leinaweaver's field research has been supported by the Wenner-Gren Foundation, the National Science Foundation, Fulbright IIE, the Jacob K. Javits Fellowship program, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.