Darcy Roake

Darcy Roake is a Ph.D candidate in the Department of History with a focus on the reproductive health and justice movements in the U.S. and France. 

Darcy is also a Unitarian Universalist Minister with a background in settings as varied as Oxfam America, Amnesty International, the United Nations, the Navajo Nation Public Defender's Office, Massachusetts General Hospital, Planned Parenthood, and the Foundation for Louisiana’s Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation Advisory Committee, among others. Darcy received a B.A. in Religious Studies from Brown University and graduated with a Master of Divinity from Harvard Divinity School. 

She has published essays in Guernica, and The New Orleans Advocate, among other venues, and is a former Mellon and Sawyer fellow, and a current Monrow fellow. Darcy enjoys good fiction and bad action movies and is looking forward to engaging with the Murphy Institute fellows and staff.

Her dissertation, “Whose Moral Property?”: A Social, Economic and Legal History of RU-486: Testing and Distribution in France and the United States from 1980-2000, is written under the direction of Prof. Karissa Haugeberg.

The Center for Ethics Graduate Fellowships provides support to outstanding Tulane doctoral students who have excelled in their fields of specialization, have demonstrated an interest in ethical questions that cut across disciplinary boundaries, and are likely to make significant contributions to teaching and scholarship in their respective fields.