Barbara M. Cooper sets out to understand childbirth in Niger, a country with the world's highest fertility rate and an alarmingly high rate of maternal and infant mortality.
Barbara M. Cooper is Professor of History and Department Chair at Rutgers University. She is author of Marriage in Maradi: Gender and Culture in a Hausa Society in Niger and Evangelical Christians in the Muslim Sahel, which was awarded the Herskovits Prize for the best book published in African studies.
