Dr. Felicia Kornbluh (she/her) is a writer, activist, and professor who specializes in the histories of feminism, gender, social welfare, and reproductive politics. She is Professor of History at the University of Vermont, with appointments in Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies, and Jewish Studies.  She is the author or coauthor of three books, including the forthcoming A WOMAN’S LIFE IS A HUMAN LIFE: My Mother, Our Neighbor, and the Journey from Reproductive Rights to Reproductive Justice (Grove Press, 2023). 

Kornbluh writes regularly for the scholarly and popular press, including for The American Prospect, Washington Post, and The Forward, and is a former member of the Vermont Commission on Women and the Board of Trustees of Planned Parenthood of Northern New England.  She serves at present as vice president of the board of Planned Parenthood of Vermont Action Fund. 

In the Summer of 2023, Felicia Kornbluh will be a Guest Professor in the History Department of the University of Teubingen in Germany, as a recipient of the Organization of American Historians Germany Residence Award