Lauryn King
Lauryn King
Research Program Associate
Dr. Lauryn King is the director of GWIPP's newly founded Gender Policy Research Program. Dr. King received her PhD in Public Policy and Public Administration from the Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration. Her research focuses on the intersectional impacts of public policies on reproduction and fertility. Dr. King recently worked with the Jacobs Institute of Women’s Health at the Milken Institute School of Public Health on a research project focused on young people’s contraceptive decision-making in the wake of the Dobbs decision, resulting in one paper recently published in Health Affairs and another forthcoming. She also serves as part-time faculty for the Department of Sociology and the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program.
PhD, Public Policy and Public Administration - The George Washington University
MPP, Social Policy - The George Washington University
BA, International Affairs and Sociology - The George Washington University
Strasser, Julia, Ellen Schenk, Sara Luckenbill, Danielle Tsevat, Lauryn King, Qian Luo, and Julie Maslowsky. 2025. “Tubal Sterilization And Vasectomy Increased Among US Young Adults After The Dobbs Supreme Court Decision In 2022.” Health Affairs 44 (1): 99–107.
King, Lauryn E. 2023. “Compliance, Contraception, and Care: The Objectives and Effects of the 2019 Title X Rule Change.” Ph.D. Dissertation, United States -- District of Columbia: The George Washington University.
King, Lauryn. 2018. "Labor in Chains: The Shackling of Pregnant Inmates." Policy Perspectives 25 (1): 55-68.
Stratified Reproduction
Reproductive Justice
Reproductive Health Policy
Incarceration
Incarcerated Pregnant People and Mothers
Gender Policy Research Program
Adolescent Contraceptive Behavior Post-Dobbs
In Partnership with the Jacobs Institute of Women's Health
Publications:
SOC 6268/WGSS 6268: Race, Gender, and Class
WGSS 6221: Research Issues in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies