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Darci Schmigdall
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. She has published in journals such as Social Problems, Ethnic and Racial Studies, and The Sociological Quarterly, and currently has multiple projects under review, including a solo-authored piece conditionally accepted at Social Science Research, an outlet with a 5% acceptance rate. She has extensive teaching experience in a variety of courses at diverse institutions serving diverse student bodies, delivering engaging instruction of introductory to upper-division courses, including core and capstone courses.
Dr. Schmigdall will join WVU's Sociology Department as an assistant professor in the Fall of 2026. |