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Anna Kirkland
Kim Lane Scheppele Collegiate Professor, Women's and Gender Studies
University of Michigan
Education/Degree:
1 Jurisprudence and Social Policy Jurisprudence and Social Policy (University of California Berkeley)
About
Anna Kirkland, J.D., Ph.D., 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 Sociology, Political Science, and Health Management and Policy at Michigan.
Current Work
Prof. Kirkland's research is about how legal rights interact with health, especially whether civil rights protections in settings like hospitals can reduce health disparities. She received a National Science Foundation grant to study the organizational handling of rights claims of sex discrimination in health care settings under the Affordable Care Act. Professor Kirkland collaborates with Professor Gary Harper on a five year R25 training grant from the National Institute of Mental Health called “Pipeline to Graduate Education and Careers in Behavioral and Social Science Research for URM Undergraduates: Addressing HIV in Sexual and Gender Minority Communities. She is currently working on a study of infertility coverage in health insurance plans with Dr. Jim Dupree, a urologist at Michigan Medicine, and is writing a book on civil rights and discrimination in health care in the U.S.
Research Area Keyword(s)
law in organizations