I am Anna Claire Church, a PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology at The Ohio State University. My research interests fall within medical sociology and health, reproduction, gender, and the family. My research agenda is motivated by fundamental questions of how culture, medicine, and axes of inequality shape people’s healthcare experiences, particularly during pregnancy and birth. I primarily use qualitative methods to explore multiple stages of people’s reproductive lives — how they decide if and when to have children, their experiences of pregnancy and birth, postpartum, and parenting.

My work has been published in Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, Reproductive Health, and Journal of Primary Care and Community Health. I have one article with a Revise & Resubmit at Social Science & Medicine and several others under review.

My dissertation examines experiences with gestational diabetes from the perspectives of those who have it, those who live with (i.e., cohabiting partners), and the medical professionals who treat it. I have received funding from multiple sources to undertake this multi-actor qualitative project including the Graduate School, Department of Sociology, and the Women’s Place at Ohio State University.

My publications are either linked below or on my CV, and all currently published papers are available open access. If you have any issues with accessing a paper, or have any questions for me, please feel free to reach out at church.213@osu.edu.