Christie Sillo Editor

Barbara Katz Rothman is Professor of Sociology at the City University of New York. She held the 2019 Fulbright Saastominen Distinguished Chair in Health Sciences at the University of Eastern Finland. She has served as President of Sociologists for Women in Society, and has held visiting professorships and Fulbright awards in the Netherlands, Germany, and the United Kingdom.

Elizabeth Newnham is Associate Professor of Midwifery at Flinders University and Fellow of the Australian College of Midwives. Her clinical practice, teaching and research has focused on seeking social justice solutions for humanizing birth, currently through the development of four research streams: ethics, technology, environment and practice.

Rodante van der Waal is a PhD-candidate in Care Ethics at the University of Humanistic Studies in Utrecht and an independent midwife in Amsterdam. Her research focuses on obstetric violence and reproductive justice from feminist, postcolonial and abolitionist perspectives. She is a founding member of the Critical Midwifery Studies Collective and the editor of Contractions, a political podcast on midwifery.

Christie Sillo is a sociologist. She holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from The Graduate Center, City University of New York, M.A. in Sociology from City College, and B.A. in American Studies from the University of Connecticut. Her doctoral research explored how interracial couples are being digitally constructed and consumed on Instagram.