Michal Raucher (she/her) is an Associate Professor of Jewish Studies at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.
Her research focuses on reproduction, religious authority, and gender among Jews in America and Israel/Palestine. She is the author of Conceiving Agency: Reproductive Authority among Haredi Women (Indiana University Press, 2020). She recently completed her second book, The New Rabbis, an ethnography of women rabbis in American Orthodoxy. Raucher is a principal investigator on two studies exploring the intersection of religious identity and abortion in America.
Research Area: Reproductive Health and Rights
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- Bluesky: @michalraucher.bsky.social
Read more from Michal Raucher:
- Religion Dispatches: Religious Challenges to Abortion Bans Are Winning in Unlikely Places
