Andrea Ford, Ph.D.

Andrea Ford is a Fellow with the FrameWorks Institute. A cultural anthropologist who studies American values and specializes in issues concerning medicine, gender, and knowledge, she has contributed to FrameWorks projects on substance abuse, economic development, child development, immigration, and the generation gap. Prior to pursuing her doctoral research at the University of Chicago, she served as a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar at the University of Ghana’s Institute of African Studies, where she researched money circulation among urban youth. She has taught at the University of Chicago, Stanford University, and the University of California, Berkeley. Andrea received a BA from the University of California, Berkeley, an MA from the University of Ghana, Legon, an MA from the University of Chicago, and will soon receive her PhD from the University of Chicago.