M. Edith Sklaroff

M. Edith Sklaroff is a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania. Her dissertation "Anti-Eugenics: Theory and Practice in the Twentieth Century" examines the historical entanglements of anti-eugenics and anticolonialism, welfare rights, reproductive health, and anti-abortion politics to develop a theory of how both eugenics and anti-eugenics function as political epistemologies. Sklaroff's research broadly engages with family abolition, reproductive justice, and the intersection of political theory and public policy. Her other work includes a Gramscian account of "false hegemonies" in reproductive policy debates and a critique of etymology as a methodology in the field of political theory. She has a B.A. from the University of Chicago in Comparative Literature with a minor in Classical Studies. Her research has been supported by the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the recipient of the Alvin Z. Rubinstein Award for Excellence in Teaching and the Teece Award. She was a Center for Excellence in Teaching, Learning, and Innovation Fellow in the academic year 2023-2024, and she is currently a Fellow at the Andrea Mitchell Center for the Study of Democracy at the University of Pennsylvania.