Diane M. Tober Ph.D.

Diane Tober, Ph.D., is a medical anthropologist and documentary filmmaker. She has conducted extensive research in topics related to bioethics, reproductive technologies, and commodification of the body, in the United States, Iran, Spain, and the Middle East. Her research includes ethnographic work on the US sperm-banking industry, on single women and lesbian couples choosing sperm donors to create their families, on kidney sales in Islamic Republic of Iran, and the politics of family planning promotion and use among Afghan refugees and low-income Iranians in Iran. She is currently an Assistant Adjunct Professor at University of California, San Francisco, where she is conducting research on egg providers' decisions and experiences. She received her doctorate in Medical Anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley/UC San Francisco joint program. Her book Romancing the Sperm: Shifting Biopolitics and the Making of Modern Families, is currently in press, and due to be published by Rutgers University Press in Spring 2018.