Sociologist and demographer
How people make reproductive decisions in a changing world.
Kathleen Broussard is an Assistant Professor at the University of South Carolina. She is a sociologist and demographer who studies fertility, reproductive health, and individual preferences and health seeking behaviors.
Research focus
Her work examines decision making around pregnancy and parenthood, experiences seeking reproductive healthcare, and the social conditions that shape those choices. Current work explores the fertility goals of young adults and the experience of high fertility families in the the United States.
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Recent research
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About
Research rooted in care, rigor, and lived experience.
Kathleen Broussard is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of South Carolina and a faculty affiliate in Women’s and Gender Studies. She is also affiliated with the Carolina Population Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
She received her PhD in Sociology from the University of Texas at Austin, where she was a fellow at the Population Research Center. Her research has appeared in journals including Social Science & Medicine, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, and Population Studies.
Curriculum vitae
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kbroussard@sc.eduDepartment of Sociology
University of South Carolina
Columbia, South Carolina