Darcy Roake

Darcy Roake was a Center for Ethics Graduate Fellow at The Murphy Institute for the 2025–2026 academic year. During her fellowship, she was a Ph.D candidate in the Department of History with a research focus on the reproductive health and justice movements in the U.S. and France. 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, was written under the direction of Prof. Karissa Haugeberg.

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. 

Darcy is a former Mellon and Sawyer fellow, and a current Chateaubriand and Monrow fellow. Darcy enjoys good fiction and bad action movies. 

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.