Katrina Kimport, PhD, MA
Assistant Professor
Email: kimportk@obgyn.ucsf.edu
Biosketch:
Katrina Kimport is a qualitative sociologist whose research focuses on gender, sexuality, and social movements. Dr. Kimport's current research engages two central themes: an examination and critique of heteronormativity, including analysis of its effect in the social experience of abortion; and an investigation of claims-making around abortion. Other recent work by Dr. Kimport has examined the relationship between heteronormativity and same-sex marriage, aiming to understand why same-sex couples choose to marry and to analyze the impact of their marriages both for participants and for broader social processes, and has investigated the use of the internet for protest. Dr. Kimport's work has been published in several journals, including the American Sociological Review, Gender & Society, Symbolic Interaction, and Perspectives on Sexual and Reproduction Health. She has a forthcoming book entitled Queering Marriage: Challenging Family Formation in the United States (Rutgers University Press) and is the author, with Dr. Jennifer Earl, of Digitally Enabled Social Change (MIT Press). Dr. Kimport received her BA from Yale University and her PhD from the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Areas of Interest:
- gender
- sexuality
- social movements
For a complete list of publications, please click here: Publications on PubMed
Updated April 2013
Citations:
- Rocca CH, Kimport K, Gould H, Foster DG. Women's emotions one week after receiving or being denied an abortion in the United States. Perspect Sex Reprod Health. 2013:45(3):122-31.