Karis Crawford, PhD

Karis Crawford joined CBDSM in April 2007 as Center Manager, bringing experience in research administration, public relations, and teaching, primarily at the University of Michigan. She holds a doctorate in the humanities (University of Toronto) and has a longstanding interest in medical decision making, especially as it relates to women’s health. She and Johanne Walters, MSN, are coauthors of Natural Childbirth after Cesarean (Blackwell, 1996). Recently, she and Walters have completed the manuscript for a second book, Pregnant Mind, Pregnant Body. Crawford’s other writing includes a play compiled and translated from medieval dramatic fragments (staged in 2002) and a novel set in Detroit in the 1960s (in progress). Her husband and three young-adult children are pretty tolerant of her enthusiasm for native Michigan plants, Cuban jazz, bread baking, solar power, and historical novels.