Manon Lefevre, PhD (she/they) is a medical anthropologist, STS scholar, (Yale PhD 2024) and incoming postdoctoral research fellow in the department of medical ethics and health policy in the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine. Her scholarship sits at the intersection of medical anthropology, science and technology studies, and the politics of reproductive medicine.

Media coverage:

“Funeral for an Embryo”. Platypus: The CASTAC Blog, Oct 17th, 2023. LINK.

Recent publications:

Lefevre, Manon. 2025.”Enacting embryos: Practices, ontologies, and politics of the IVF lab post-Dobbs.” Medical Anthropology Quarterly 39(3). 10.1111/maq.12916

Lefevre, Manon. 2022. “Making Embryos Lively: The Politics of Embryo Personhood When Fertilization Happens under a Microscope.” Somatosphere (blog). July 6, 2022.

To reach Manon, email manonlefevre1123@gmail.com

You can also find her at her website.