Tracy Weitz Professor Sociology
- Degrees
- PhD, MPA
- Favorite Spot on Campus
- The quad because Jackson LOVES to meet students.
- Favorite Place in Washington DC
- The Mall
- Bio
- Tracy A. Weitz PhD, MPA (she/her), is a professor of sociology and Director for the Center on Health, Risk, and Society at American University in Washington, DC. Her current research addresses how insurance payors, private non-profit organizations, and philanthropy pay for abortion. Further, she studies the way abortion exists as a cultural product in politics, mass media, and the social imagination. Finally, her research has long focused on the specific role of abortion later in pregnancy and on the demedicalization of medication abortion. She is member of the standing committee on Reproductive Health, Equity, and Society at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM); former U.S. Programs Director for the Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation; and co-founder and director of Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health (ANSIRH) at the University of California, San Francisco. Among her honors is the 2014 Irvin M. Cushner Award from the Association of Reproductive Health Professionals, the 2021 Charles S Schultz Lifetime Achievement and 2008 Felicia Stewart Advocacy Awards from the Sexual and Reproductive Health Section of the American Public Health Association. Dr. Weitz is a Deputy Editor for Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health and on the Editorial Board of Contraception. She lives in Washington, DC with her wife and their labrador Jackson.
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Teaching
Fall 2024
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SOCY-358 Topics in Sociology: Sociology of Reproduction
Spring 2025
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CORE-105 Complex Problems Seminar: Abortion Pills Everywhere
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SOCY-335 Birth and Death
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SOCY-335 Birth and Death