New WS Faculty Joint Appointment: Deborah R. McFarlane

Deborah R. McFarlane is Professor of Political Science and Women Studies at the University of New Mexico.  She is the author (with K.J. Meier) of The Politics of Fertility Control: Family Planning and Abortion Politics in the American States (Congressional Quarterly Press 2001) and many articles in reproductive health policy.  Trained in public health (University of Michigan and University of Texas Health Science Center) and public policy (Harvard University), her research focuses on U.S. domestic reproductive health politics and the politics of international population and reproductive health.  She has recently completed the Population Pioneers Project, funded by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.  This project has collected papers and oral histories from reproductive health leaders throughout the world, which will be archived at the Sophia Smith Collection for women’s history at Smith College, home to Margaret Sanger’s papers.  McFarlane has worked as an administrator and a consultant in reproductive health in the U.S. and internationally for more than three decades.