Dr. Rebecca Gibson
Dr. Rebecca Gibson is an Assistant Professor in the Anthropology unit of the School of World Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University. Her research interests vary widely from corseting and skeletons, to robot/human romance and sex, to zombies and gender, and she is particularly proud of her original course on the anthropology of tea. After a dozen years of trying to connect disparate symptoms, she was diagnosed with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, a genetic collagen production disorder. She is glad to be able to share her disability journey with the TEDxVCU community, but considers her disability to be the least interesting thing about her. When not teaching or writing, she can be found reading mystery and sci-fi novels on a pile of stuffed animals.