Anna Kirkland is the Kim Lane Scheppele Collegiate Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Michigan. She is also an Arthur F. Thurnau Professor. She received her law degree (2001) and Ph.D in Jurisprudence and Social Policy (2003) from the University of California, Berkeley. She holds courtesy appointments with the School of Law, Sociology, Political Science, and Health Management and Policy at Michigan. Prof. Kirkland’s third book, Health Care Civil Rights: How Discrimination Law Fails Patients, has recently been published by the University of California Press and is available open access on the UC Press Luminos platform. She is also a co-editor with stef shuster and Carla Pfeffer of the Social Science and Medicine Special Issue “Unequal Care: Trans Medicine and Health in Dangerous Times”(October 2024) and the author of Fat Rights: Dilemmas of Difference and Personhood (New York University Press, 2008) and Vaccine Court: The Law and Politics of Injury (New York University Press, 2016), co-editor with Jonathan Metzl of Against Health: How Health Became the New Morality (New York University Press, 2010), and co-editor with with Prof. Marie-Andree Jacob at the University of Leeds, UK of a Research Handbook on Sociolegal Studies of Medicine and Health (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2020). Prof. Kirkland’s additional research (co-PI with Dr. Jim Dupree, Michigan Medicine Urology) is funded by theEunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) to study how insurance benefit designs for IVF influence the decisions patients make during IVF and the outcomes of their IVF attempts.
