Siggie is an inter/transdisciplinary scholar of reproduction who works at the intersection of science and technology studies, gender studies and global health and medicine.
Over the past 14 years, Siggie has been conducting qualitative research on the global politics of (assisted) reproduction, fertility and family-making. As part of her doctoral research at Ghent University, she analysed the politics of assisted reproduction in Israel/Palestine, using older and newer reproductive technologies as a lens to understand broader socio-political processes in Israel/Palestine. Via postdoctoral fellowships at King’s College London, University of Cambridge and Ghent University, she expanded on this research by analysing the feminist political economy of global fertility chains, with an empirical focus on transnational surrogacy between Israel/Palestine and Georgia. Currently, she has shifted her research gaze to Belgium with a research project on its global histories of transnational reproduction, in which she is scrutinizing the dis/continuities between past, present and future technologies of transnational reproduction, including intercountry adoption and surrogacy.
Her research, teachings and public engagements are grounded in a critical understanding of the global inequalities through which (medical) science and technologies continue to materialise, and in a genuine desire to reimagine novel ways of ‘doing’ and ‘practicing’ S&T and STS in Europe (and beyond) that are committed to social justice.
