Rose Archer (She/Her)Ph.D. Student (2024 Cohort)

Rose Archer received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Music from Birmingham-Southern College where she graduated magna cum laude. She later received a Master of Divinity from Duke University and a Graduate Certificate in Theology, Medicine, and Culture where she graduated magna cum laude. Rose recently completed a Master of Science in Sociology from Florida State University where she was awarded the McKnight Doctoral Fellowship.

Broadly, Rose’s research is situated at the nexus of race, gender, and reproductive health inequities across time and place. Drawing from an extensive cross-disciplinary background, her work critically examines the historical, social, and political forces that constrain Black reproductive autonomy and the individual and collective strategies engaged to resist such constraints. Her research integrates medical sociology, Black feminist and womanist epistemologies, and qualitative methods. Rose’s forthcoming article in Sociology of Health and Illness, “Surviving in the midst of ‘Nowhere’: Disrupting the Conceptualization of a Maternity Care Desert,” earned her the 2024 Odum Graduate Student Paper Award from the Southern Sociological Society. Additionally, her research on the long-term impacts of reproductive trauma garnered her the 2024 Judith Plasklow Grant with the American Academy of Religion.

Along with her academic pursuits, Rose is an ordained minister, trained birth doula and founder of Doulas for Me. Her interest in reproductive health inequities was initially sparked in her professional life as a Board Certified Chaplain (BCC) where she worked with Duke University Hospital, Emory Healthcare, and Tallahassee Memorial Healthcare. Rose enjoys spending time with her life partner, Andrew, and their two “Littles,” Anyah and Judah.