Dr. Lea Taragin – Zeller is a social and medical anthropologist with research interests in religion, medical anthropology, gender, reproduction and public policy. She is Assistant Professor of Cultural Studies and Public Policy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and an affiliated scholar at the Reproductive Sociology Research Group (ReproSoc), University of Cambridge. Lea has published in leading international journals, such as American Anthropologist, Medical Anthropology and Science Communication and serves as a section editor in Cambridge’s journal of Reproductive Biomedicine and Society Online. Over the years, she has developed a comparative and interdisciplinary research method to examine state-minority politics on different scalar levels.