Grace Howard is an Associate Professor of Justice Studies at San José State University. She earned her Ph.D. in Political Science at Rutgers University, with concentrations in Women and Politics and Public Law. Her new book, The Pregnancy Police: Conceiving Crime, Arresting Personhood is out now with University of California Press!
Dr. Howard is engaged in public scholarship on reproductive politics and law, with expertise on the criminalization of pregnancy, abortion, contraception, miscarriage, and eugenics. Her analysis and commentary have been featured in national and international news outlets including Huffington Post, US News & World Report, Truthout, AP News, and NPR.
Dr. Howard was a Public Voices Fellow with The Op-Ed Project for the 2023-2024 academic year. She was an American Fellow with the American Association for University Women for the 2016-2017 academic year and is Co-Director of the Rutgers University Informed Consent Project.
Dr. Howard has authored several published works, including "The Pregnancy Police: Surveillance, Regulation, and Control" in Harvard Law and Policy Review, The Gender of Crime (2nd edition), "The Limits of Pure White: Raced Reproduction in the Methamphetamine Crisis," in the Women's Rights Law Reporter, and "Informed or Misinformed Consent?: Abortion Policy in the United States," published in the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law.
Dr. Howard's research areas include reproductive law and politics, law and society, bioethics, criminal justice, gender and public policy, feminist theory, and critical race theory.
Her body of work explores reproductive law and policy, and the dimensions of legal personhood for people with the capacity for pregnancy.
Dr. Howard is engaged in public scholarship on reproductive politics and law, with expertise on the criminalization of pregnancy, abortion, contraception, miscarriage, and eugenics. Her analysis and commentary have been featured in national and international news outlets including Huffington Post, US News & World Report, Truthout, AP News, and NPR.
Dr. Howard was a Public Voices Fellow with The Op-Ed Project for the 2023-2024 academic year. She was an American Fellow with the American Association for University Women for the 2016-2017 academic year and is Co-Director of the Rutgers University Informed Consent Project.
Dr. Howard has authored several published works, including "The Pregnancy Police: Surveillance, Regulation, and Control" in Harvard Law and Policy Review, The Gender of Crime (2nd edition), "The Limits of Pure White: Raced Reproduction in the Methamphetamine Crisis," in the Women's Rights Law Reporter, and "Informed or Misinformed Consent?: Abortion Policy in the United States," published in the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law.
Dr. Howard's research areas include reproductive law and politics, law and society, bioethics, criminal justice, gender and public policy, feminist theory, and critical race theory.
Her body of work explores reproductive law and policy, and the dimensions of legal personhood for people with the capacity for pregnancy.
