Areas of study: reproductive politics; anthropology of health, medicine, and science; feminist and community based participatory research

Education
1998 Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University
(Anthropology & Population Dynamics)

1994 M.A. Johns Hopkins University
(Anthropology)

1988 B.A. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
(Anthropology and Women’s Studies)

1988 Certificate in Women’s Studies (Women’s Studies Program in Europe, administered through Antioch University, Ohio)

Books
Risk, Culture, and Health Inequality: Shifting Perceptions of Danger and Blame, eds. Barbara Herr Harthorn and Laury Oaks. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2003.

Smoking and Pregnancy: The Politics of Fetal Protection. Rutgers University Press, 2001

Recent Articles
"Manhood and Meaning in the Marketing of the 'Male Pill.'" In The Second Sex in Reproduction: Men, Sexuality and Masculinity, eds. Marcia C. Inhorn, Tine Tjørnhøj-Thomsen, Helena Goldberg, and Maruska La Cour Mosegaard. Berkeley: University of California Press. In press.

"Catholic Church." In Poverty in the United States: An Encyclopedia of History, Politics, and Policy, eds. Gwendolyn Mink and Alice O'Connor, ABC-CLIO, eds. Gwendolyn Mink and Alice O'Connor, ABC-CLIO, 2004.

with Jo Murphy-Lawless, and Clare Brady. 2004. "Understanding how Sexually Active Women Think about Fertility, Sex, and Motherhood." Dublin: Crisis Pregnancy Agency, Report No. 6. Available at <http://www.crisispregnancy.ie/pub/Rep6.pdf>.

"The Social Politics of Health Risk Warning: Competing Claims about the Link between Abortion and Breast Cancer." In Risk, Culture, and Health Inequality: Shifting Perceptions of Danger and Blame, eds. Barbara Herr Harthorn and Laury Oaks. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2003.

"Antiabortion Positions and Young Women's Life Plans in Contemporary Ireland." Social Science and Medicine 2003 56: 1973-86.

"'Abortion is part of the Irish experience, it is part of what we are:' The Transformation of Public. Discourses on Irish Abortion Policy." Women's Studies International Forum 2002 25(3): 315-333.