Clare Daniel, PhD

Clare Daniel is Senior Professor of Practice and Director of Research at Tulane University’s Newcomb Institute. She received her PhD in American Studies from the University of New Mexico. Her book, Mediating Morality: The Politics of Teen Pregnancy in the Post-Welfare Era (University of Massachusetts Press, 2017), charts a shift in the political and popular discourse about adolescent pregnancy in the wake of the 1996 U.S. welfare reform policy. Her work on reproductive politics has also appeared in Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, American Journal of Public Health, Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, Women’s Health Issues, Feminist Media Studies, Social Sciences, Psychology of Women Quarterly, and elsewhere. She is also co-editor of Feminist Pedagogy for Teaching Online (Athabasca University Press, 2025). Her opinion pieces have been published in The Advocate, The Hill, and Ms., among others. She received the 2020 Coalition Builder Award from the National Women’s Studies Association for her work with the New Orleans Maternal and Child Health Coalition. She is also a founding editor of the Feminist Pedagogy for Teaching Online digital guide, which received the 2024 Open Scholarship Award from the Canadian Social Knowledge Institute. Along with Professors Karissa Haugeberg (History) and Kate Baldwin (English and Communication), Daniel received a Sawyer Seminar grant from the Mellon Foundation to coordinate a two-year series of events on reproductive justice in the Gulf South from 2024 to 2026.

Daniel leads Newcomb Institute's research strategy, implementation, and grant development around our three main content areas: gender-based violence, sexual and reproductive health, and feminist civic engagement. She oversees the Newcomb Archives and Vorhoff Collection, manages the Fridays at Newcomb speaker series, convenes the Reproductive Justice Faculty Working Group, sits on the Newcomb Scholars Advisory Committee, and organizes the annual Roe v. Wade lecture. She regularly teaches courses in the Newcomb Scholars Program and the Department of Communication. She also advises several feminist student organizations.