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- Sociologist works as a professor on recall at 新澳门六合彩内幕信息SF
- Abortion access figures in her continuing research
- Emeriti Association applauds her 鈥渃ourageous efforts鈥
The 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis Emeriti Association announced Carole Joffe as the recipient of the association鈥檚 Distinguished Emeriti Award for 2022-23.
The award honors outstanding scholarly work or service (e.g., service in professional, university, Academic Senate, emeriti/ae, departmental or editorial posts, or on committees) performed since retirement.
In Joffe鈥檚 case, since retiring from the Department of Sociology in 2009, she has been a professor on recall in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 San Francisco. It is primarily a research position as she continues to focus on the social dimensions of reproductive health, with a particular interest in abortion.
But she also continues to train and mentor the next generation of scholars and medical providers, for example, by teaching webinars on the sociological aspects of reproduction to physicians in two groups: the Fellowship in Family Planning and Physicians for Reproductive Health.
Since 鈥渞etiring,鈥 she has mentored at least 25 people, including graduate students at 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis, and young post-residency physicians and assistant professors. She serves on dissertation and orals committees, reads manuscripts, provides career counseling, coaches practitioners, and gives advice about research.
Obstacle Course
Her scholarly output since she took emeritus status includes three books, the most recent being Obstacle Course: The Everyday Struggle To Get an Abortion in America (2020), co-authored with David S. Cohen, which received an honorable mention for the 2021 Adele Clarke Book Prize for scholarship on reproduction; 19 articles in peer reviewed scholarly journals; and more than 92 opinion essays and letters to editors in the country鈥檚 leading papers.
鈥淏y any measure, she is a scholar who remains in her prime,鈥 the Emeriti Association said in its .
Two more books are in the works, according to Diane Wolf, also a professor emerita in the 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis Department of Sociology, who nominated Joffe for the Distinguished Emeriti Award. One is a follow-up with Cohen examining how abortion providers and advocates responded to the U.S. Supreme Court鈥檚 June 24, 2022, decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women鈥檚 Health Organization, which overturned the constitutional right to abortion as established by Roe. V. Wade in 1973.
The other is a second edition of a 2014 book for which she served as the editor, Reproduction and Society: Interdisciplinary Readings (2014).
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鈥淧rofessor Joffe commits an enormous effort toward translating her research findings and expertise into public knowledge,鈥 Wolf said. 鈥淗er work is read and incorporated by policymakers at the highest levels. As one indicator of her impact, in 2016, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg directly cited one of Professor Joffe鈥檚 writings in a case focused on abortion.鈥
The 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis Emeriti Association, or 新澳门六合彩内幕信息DEA, in its announcement, said: 鈥淎ll her support letters emphasize that Professor Joffe is playing a vitally important role as a scholar, mentor and advocate as the U.S. navigates this fraught moment in its decadeslong battle over abortion law.
鈥淗er work has never been more necessary than it is today. The 新澳门六合彩内幕信息DEA applauds Professor Joffe for her courageous efforts to address reproductive rights for women. She continues to bring state, national and global attention to the university and is most deserving of this Distinguished Emeriti Award for 2022-23.鈥
She will be recognized at the Chancellor鈥檚 Emeriti Luncheon, and receive a plaque and a $1,000 award.
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