Dr Jaya Keaney

Jaya Keaney is a Gender Studies scholar, whose research focuses on the intersections of race, reproduction, and science and technology. Much of her work examines how understandings of racialized kinship are reproduced and reconfigured through biotechnologies, fields of scientific research, and changing reproductive forms. Jaya is currently working on two research projects. The first explores race in donor conception and surrogacy markets, with a focus on queer family making. The second explores the implications of epigenetics research for Aboriginal communities in Australia, with a focus on understandings of intergenerational trauma and reproductive justice.

Jaya was a Visiting Scholar at the University of Cambridge (Reproductive Sociology Research Group) in 2018. She received the Australian Women's and Gender Studies PhD Prize (2021) for her doctoral thesis about race, assisted reproduction and queer family making.