#  Jocelyn Viterna 

Faculty Associate (on leave 2025–2026); Harvard Academy Senior Scholar. 

Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology; Chair, Committee on Degrees in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Harvard University.

 

 

 



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 email <jviterna@wjh.harvard.edu> 

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**Research interests:** Gender; reproduction; states; violence; politics; mobilization; theory; development; and Latin America.



 

 

 





 

 

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