Katrina Kimport, PhD is a qualitative medical sociologist whose research focuses on gender, health and reproduction. Dr. Kimport's research engages two central themes: understanding women’s personal and social experience of abortion and contraception; and investigating the political and cultural negotiation of controversial social issues related to sexuality and health. Her current research examines the impacts of state abortion bans on women who experienced obstetric emergencies or serious fetal health diagnoses. Dr. Kimport has published over 90 peer-reviewed articles. She is the editor of When Roe Fell: How Barriers, Inequities, and Systemic Failures of Justice in Abortion Became Visible (2025, Rutgers University Press), author of No Real Choice: How Culture and Politics Matter for Reproductive Autonomy (2022, Rutgers University Press) and Queering Marriage: Challenging Family Formation in the United States (2014, Rutgers University Press, Winner of the Charles Tilly Best Book Award), and co-author, with Dr. Jennifer Earl, of Digitally Enabled Social Change (2011, MIT Press, Honorable Mention for CITASA Best Book Award). Dr. Kimport received her BA from Yale University and her PhD from the University of California, Santa Barbara.
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