Jocelyn Viterna, Acting Director for the 2024–2025 academic year, SCANCOR at the Weatherhead Center at Harvard University.

She holds a B.A. in Sociology and Latin American Studies from Kansas State University and a M.A. and a Ph.D. in Sociology from Indiana University-Bloomington.

Jocelyn Viterna is a professor of sociology; Chair of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, in the Department of Sociology at Harvard University. She is a Faculty Associate at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies and a Faculty Associate at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University. 

She received the Distinguished Book Award, Sex and Gender Section of the American Sociological Association and the Global Division Distinguished Book Award, Society for the Study of Social Problems for her book Women in War: The Micro-processes of Mobilization in El Salvador. Oxford University Press, 2013. 

Research Interests: Gender, politics, law, social mobilization, reproductive health, reproductive justice, criminalization of abortion, violence, Central America.

Please visit her website to learn more about her work.