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JOCELYN VITERNA

Professor of Sociology, Harvard University

 

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    • REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH AND THE CRIMINALIZATION OF ABORTION
    • GENDER MOBILIZATION IN WAR
    • THE GENDER OF POLITICS
    • DEVELOPMENT AND THE THIRD SECTOR
    • PROTOCOLS & DATABASES
      • Ethics Protocols, Fatal Fetal Malformations in El Salvador (2013-2018)
      • Database access, Fatal Fetal Malformations in El Salvador (2013-2018)
      • Database access, Abortion in Salvadoran and Nicaraguan Newspapers (1989-2014)
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    • Viterna in the News
  • Jocelyn Viterna, 2021 headshotJocelyn Viterna is Professor of Sociology and Director of Undergraduate Studies at Harvard University. Her current research examines how the passage of anti-abortion legislation in El Salvador has transformed the Salvadoran legal, judicial, and medical systems, with powerful and negative consequences for the health and freedom of pregnant people living there. You may read more about this project, plus Viterna’s earlier work on social mobilization and gender, by clicking the “Research” tab above.

    Research Interests: Gender, politics, law, social mobilization, reproductive health, reproductive justice, criminalization of abortion, violence, Central America

     

    Curriculum Vitae (November 2021)

     

Contact Prof. Viterna

jviterna@wjh.harvard.edu

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Department of Sociology
33 Kirkland Street
William James Hall 480
Cambridge, MA 02138

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Genevieve Butler
gbutler@g.harvard.edu

Viterna in the News

  • SCOTUS "has already set into motion legal processes to criminalize abortion in at least 15 states, with immediate and catastrophic health consequences for pregnant people," Viterna debunks the myth of protective exceptions to abortion bans, 07/05/2022.
  • Article & Video: Salvadoran Women Jailed for Abortion Warn of Ban, Viterna anticipates post-Roe future in the US, 06/11/2022.
  • Viterna quoted in the LA Times about the role of problematic evidence in condemning women who miscarry, 06/23/2022.
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