Annie McGlynn-Wright

Annie McGlynn-Wright is an Assistant Professor who joined the Loyola faculty in 2022. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Washington. From 2019-2021, she held an NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship in Law & Society at the Newcomb Institute of Tulane University.

Her research examines how laws and policies are created, how institutions implement them, and how those institutional practices shape access to resources and opportunities. Her work addresses issues related to reproductive healthcare, social welfare programs, education, and the criminal legal system. Within health and social welfare programs, Annie focuses on how ideas about race, pregnancy, and poverty shape surveillance, control, and access to resources. She is currently running a national audit study that examines how insurance type influences access to gynecological care—with a specific focus on how state- level healthcare policies might amplify delays in gynecological care. Within the criminal legal system, she examines the long-term consequences of police contact with young people. Results from this work has been published in Social Problems, Race & Social Problems, and Race & Justice. Within education, she is working on a project that examines corporate seat reservations at public charter schools.

Annie draws from engaged pedagogical approaches to teaching—focusing on the classroom as a site in which knowledge is produced collectively and helping students use sociological knowledge to analyze their own experiences. She has over fifteen years of teaching experience—teaching in the areas of law & society, sociology of education, medical sociology, reproduction, and qualitative methods.

Courses Taught:

• Race, Class, and Schools
• Race, Gender, and Reproduction
• Medical Sociology
• Social Problems
• The College Experience (Qualitative Methods Course)

Areas of Expertise:

• Law & Society
• Sociology of Reproduction
• Medical Sociology
• Sociology of Education