Darci Schmidgall

Darci K. Schmigdall's research draws from gender studies, criminology, critical perspectives on ethno-racial and class-based hierarchies, and the sociology of politics and religion to address abortion criminalization. Her work explores the rapidly changing legal landscape in the United States post-Dobbs, analyzing causes and consequences of the punitive shift in the Overton Window around abortion policy, and situating the religious ethno-authoritarian reproductive control efforts at work in the contemporary U.S. within broader historical and transnational trends.