Grace Howard is Assistant Professor of Justice Studies at San Jose State University. From Fall 2017-Spring 2019, Grace was Assistant Professor of Gender Studies at the University of Southern Indiana. She earned her Ph.D. in Political Science at Rutgers University. Grace was an American Fellow with the American Association of University Women for the 2016-2017 academic year and is Co-Director of the Rutgers University Informed Consent Project.
Grace has authored several published works, including The Gender of Crime (2nd edition), "The Limits of Pure White: Raced Reproduction in the Methamphetamine Crisis," in the Women's Rights Law Reporter, and "Informed or Misinformed Consent?: Abortion Policy in the United States," published in the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law.
Grace's research areas include law and society, bioethics, the politics of reproduction, criminal justice, gender and public policy, feminist theory, and critical race theory.
Her dissertation, entitled The Criminalization of Pregnancy: Rights, Discretion, and the Law, examines arrests of pregnant women for crimes against their own pregnancies. Her body of work explores reproductive law and policy, and the dimensions of legal personhood for pregnant people.
Grace has authored several published works, including The Gender of Crime (2nd edition), "The Limits of Pure White: Raced Reproduction in the Methamphetamine Crisis," in the Women's Rights Law Reporter, and "Informed or Misinformed Consent?: Abortion Policy in the United States," published in the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law.
Grace's research areas include law and society, bioethics, the politics of reproduction, criminal justice, gender and public policy, feminist theory, and critical race theory.
Her dissertation, entitled The Criminalization of Pregnancy: Rights, Discretion, and the Law, examines arrests of pregnant women for crimes against their own pregnancies. Her body of work explores reproductive law and policy, and the dimensions of legal personhood for pregnant people.