Meghan Olivia Warner

Meghan is a medical and cultural sociologist who uses qualitative methods to study bodies as sites for the reproduction of gender inequality. More specifically, she studies sexual violence, family formation, and pregnancy and childbirth. Her work can be found in Sociological Perspectives, Contexts, and The Annual Review of Law and Social Science.

In her dissertation, she uses interviews, surveys, and observations to study how women in the SF Bay Area prepare for and experience their first births. Grants from the American Sociological Association, the Center for Institutional Courage, the Stanford Ethnography Lab, and the Stanford School of Humanities and Sciences support this research.

Meghan is a Lecturer in the Civic, Liberal, and Global Education (COLLEGE) program at Stanford. Previously, she designed and taught Sociology of Gender and served as a teaching assistant for different types of sociology classes.