Publications
Books – Monograph (Peer Reviewed)
Mishtal, J. 2015. The Politics of Morality: The Church, the State and Reproductive Rights in Postsocialist Poland. Ohio University Press.
Winner of the Adele E. Clarke Book Award 2017
Books - Edited Volume (Peer Reviewed)
De Zordo, S., J. Mishtal. and L. Anton (eds). 2016. A Fragmented Landscape: Abortion Governance and Protest Logics in Europe. Berghahn Books: Oxford and New York. In: Protest Culture & Society Series. (Re-published in paperback in 2018)
Journal Special Issues (Peer Reviewed)
Mattalucci, C., J. Mishtal, and S. De Zordo (eds). 2018. “Emerging Contestations of Abortion Rights: New Hierarchies, Political Strategies, and Discourses at the Intersection of Rights, Health, and Law.” Antropologia, 5(2):1-136. (Invited)
https://Doi.org/10.14672/ada201814547-12
Mishtal, J., and M. Radkowska-Walkowicz (eds). 2016. “Between Policy and Practice: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Assisted Reproductive Technologies and Equitable Access to Health Care.” Reproductive Biomedicine & Society vol. 3 (March), pp.1-144. Link here.
Articles in Journals & Edited Books (Peer Reviewed) [*graduate student, **undergraduate honors student]
In press Mishtal, J., and S. De Zordo. 2025. “The shifting contexts for reproductive rights, and meeting the challenge of protecting and fulfilling such rights.” In New Visions for Gender Equality 2025, Niall Crowley and Silvia Sansonetti (eds). Brussels: European Commission, Gender Equality Unit.
R&R Zanini, G., J. Mishtal, S. De Zordo, and C. Gerdts. 2024. “‘It starts to become appealing. When it shouldn’t’. Criminalisation, safety and stigma in abortion travellers’ experiences of self-managed abortion.” Anthropology & Medicine (re-submitted post-R&R revisions in December 2024)
Rahm, L., S. De Zordo, and J. Mishtal. 2024. “Barrieren für den legalen Schwangerschaftsabbruch
Perspektiven deutscher Frauen und GesundheitsexpertInnen zu grenzüberschreitenden Abtreibungsreisen.” In Beratung bei ungewollter Schwangerschaft: Beiträge aus Forschung und Praxis. Maika Böhm, Christiane Bomert, Katja Krolzik-Matthei & Eva Maria Lohner (editors), Psychosozial Verlag. https://doi.org/10.30820/9783837961652.
Wollum, A., S. De Zordo, G. Zanini, A.K. Ziegler, J. Mishtal, C. Garnsey, and C. Gerdts. 2024. “Systemic Barriers and Delays in Access to Abortion Care: A Cross-Sectional Study of People Traveling to Obtain Care in the England, Wales, and the Netherlands from European Countries Where Abortion is Legal on Broad Grounds.” Reproductive Health 21(7) https://doi.org/10.1186/s12978-023-01729-2
Chakravarty, D., Mishtal, J, Grimes, L., Reeves, K., Stifani, B., Duffy, D, Murphy, M., Favier, M, Horgan, T, Chavkin, W., and Lavelanet, AF. 2023. “Restrictive Points of Entry into Abortion Care in Ireland: Expectations and Experiences with the Service.” Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters 31(1). https://doi.org/10.1080/26410397.2023.2215567
Grimes, L., J. Mishtal, K. Reeves, D. Chakravarty, B. Stifani, W. Chavkin, D. Duffy, Trish Horgan, M. Favier, M. Murphy, A. F. Lavelanet. 2023. “‘Still Travelling’: Access to abortion post-12 weeks gestation in Ireland.” Women’s Studies International Forum 98. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wsif.2023.102709
De Zordo, S., J. Mishtal, G. Zanini, and C. Gerdts. 2023. “‘The first difficulty is time’: the impact of gestational age limits on reproductive health and justice in the context of cross-border travel for abortion care in Europe. Social Science & Medicine vol. 231. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2023.115760
nominated for the 2023 Rudolf Virchow Award, Critical Anthropology for Global Health
Rahm, L., S. De Zordo, G. Zanini, J. Mishtal, C. Garnsey, D. Clougher, and C. Gerdts. 2023. “French women’s experiences with in-country versus cross-border abortion travels: A mixed-methods paper.” British Medical Journal (BMJ) Sexual & Reproductive Health. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjsrh-2022-201712
Reeves, K. M.*, and J. Mishtal. 2022. “Situating Parents’ Circumcision Decision-Making within Health Research, Knowledge, and Experience” Social Science & Medicine: Qualitative Research in Health. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmqr.2022.100132
Mishtal, J, G. Zanini, S. de Zordo, D. Clougher, and C. Gerdts. 2022. “‘To be vigilant to leave no trace’: secrecy, invisibility and abortion travel from the Republic of Ireland.” Culture, Health & Sexuality (September). https://doi.org/10.1080/13691058.2022.2107704
Mishtal, J., G. Zanini, and S. De Zordo. 2022. "What Our 6-Year Research about Travel Across Borders for Abortion Care Tells Us: It’s Not a Solution." Cultural Anthropology in Hot Spots - Fieldsights, Peer-Reviewed, September. Link here.
Rahm, L., S. De Zordo, J. Mishtal, C. L. Garnsey, and C. Gerdts. 2022. “In-country abortion travels in metropolitan France: A mixed-methods analysis of women's experiences, access and barriers to abortion care.” PLoS ONE. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0273190
Duffy, D., Mishtal, J., Grimes, L., Murphy, M., Reeves, K., Chakravarty, D., Chavkin, W., Favier, M., Horgan, P., Stifani, B., and Lavelanet, AF. 2022. “Implementing abortion services in the Republic of Ireland since 2019: Patient journey analysis of informational obstructors and facilitators.” Social Science & Medicine – Population Health, Vol. 19. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmph.2022.101132
Stifani, B., Mishtal, J., Grimes, L., Murphy, M., Reeves, K., Chakravarty, D., Chavkin, W., Favier, M., Horgan, P., and Lavelanet, AF. 2022. “Abortion policy implementation in Ireland: Successes and challenges in the establishment of hospital-based services.” Social Science & Medicine: Qualitative Research in Health 2:1-12. https://doi.org./10.1016/j.ssmqr.2022.100090
Mishtal, J., Reeves, K., Chakravarty, D., Grimes, L., Stifani, B., Chavkin, W., Duffy, D., Favier, M., Horgan, P., Murphy, M., and Lavelanet, AF. 2022. “Abortion policy implementation in Ireland: Lessons from the community model of care.” PLoS ONE 17(5): e0264494. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0264494
Mishtal, J., and S. De Zordo. 2022. “Policy, Governance, Practice – Global Perspectives on Abortion.” Pp. 150-164. In The Routledge Handbook of Anthropology and Reproduction, Sallie Han and Cecília Tomori (eds). Oxford: Routledge Press. Link here.
Taliaferro, L. A., J. Mishtal, Veenod L. Chulani, Tiernan C. Middleton, Meagan Acevedo, Marla E. Eisenberg. 2021. “Perspectives on inadequate preparation and training priorities for physicians working with sexual minority youth.” International Journal of Medical Education 12:186-194. https://doi.org/10.5116/ijme.615c.25d3
Zanini, G., J. Mishtal, S. De Zordo, Ann-Katherine Ziegler, and C. Gerdts. 2021. “Abortion information governance and women’s travels across European borders.” Women’s Studies International Forum 87:1-8. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wsif.2021.102496
Mishtal, J., and S. De Zordo. 2021. “Cross-Border Travel for Reproductive Health.” In Encyclopedia of Life Sciences: Bioethics and Philosophy. Vol. 2: 1-8 (invited) Doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/9780470015902.a0029133
Garnsey, Camille, G. Zanini, S. De Zordo, J. Mishtal, Allie Wollum, C. Gerdts. 2021. “Cross-country abortion travel to England and Wales: Results from a cross-sectional survey exploring women’s experiences crossing borders to obtain care.” Reproductive Health 18:103. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12978-021-01158-z
De Zordo, S., G. Zanini, J. Mishtal, Camille Garnsey, Ann-Kathrin Ziegler, C. Gerdts. 2020. “Gestational Age Limits for Abortion: Failed Laws and Cross-Border Reproductive Care.” BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology 128(5):838-845. https://doi.org/10.1111/1471-0528.16534
De Zordo, S., J. Mishtal, G. Zanini, C. Gerdts. 2020. “Consequences of Gestational Age Limits for People Needing Abortion Care during the COVID-19 Pandemic.” Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters 28(1). https://doi.org/10.1080/26410397.2020.1818377
Mishtal, J. 2020. “As Church-State Relations Cool, Reproductive Rights Expand.” Special Forum: “Making Abortion Legal in Ireland: A Forum on Gender and Democracy Today” T. Strong, and E. Drążkiewicz (eds), Social Anthropology 28(3):561-584. (September) (Invited) https://doi.org/10.1111/1469-8676.12914
Mishtal, J., S. De Zordo, Irene Capelli, Anastasia Martino, Laura Rahm, G. Zanini. 2020. “Political (in)action in abortion governance during COVID-19 in Europe: a call for a harmonized EU response during public health crises.” Special Collection: “COVID-19 and Sexual and Reproductive Health/ Maternal and Newborn Health” E. Varley, and A. Strong (eds) Medical Anthropology Quarterly (June). Link here.
Taliaferro, L., J. Mishtal, Veenod L. Chulani, M. Acevedo, T. C. Middleton, and M. E. Eisenberg. 2019. “Communicating Effectively with Sexual Minority Youth: Perspectives of Young Adults and Healthcare Providers.” Acta Scientific Paediatrics 2(10):32-39. https://doi.org/10.31080/ASPE.2019.02.0144
Mishtal, J. 2019. “Reproductive Governance and the (Re)definition of Human Rights in Poland.” Medical Anthropology: Cross-Cultural Studies in Health and Illness 38(2):182-194. https://doi.org/10.1080/01459740.2018.1472090
Davenport, S.**, and J. Mishtal. 2019. “Whose Sustainability? An Analysis of a Community Farming Program’s Food Justice and Environmental Sustainability Agenda,” Culture, Agriculture, Food & Environment 41(1):56-65. https://doi.org/10.1111/cuag.12227
Mishtal, J. 2018. The Polish State and Parenthood: Critical Perspectives on Defunding Infertility Care and the ‘Family 500 Plus’ Program.” In Child, In Vitro, Society: An Interdisciplinary Perspective, E. Maciejewska-Mroczek, A. Krawczak, and M. Radkowska-Walkowicz (eds). P. 173-194. Warsaw: Science Publishing. (Invited) Link here.
Mattalucci, C., J. Mishtal, and S. De Zordo. 2018. “Introduction: Emerging Contestations of Abortion Rights: New Hierarchies, Political Strategies, and Discourses at the Intersection of Rights, Health, and Law.” Antropologia, 5(2):7-12. (Invited) https://doi.org/10.14672/ada201814547-12
Milanés, L.**, and J. Mishtal. 2018. “Too Little, Too Late? The Challenges in Expanding Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare for Men.” Anthropology in Action: Journal for Applied Anthropology in Policy & Practice 25(2):13-23. https://doi.org/10.3167/aia.2018.250203
Gray, D.*, and J. Mishtal. 2018. “Managing an Epidemic: Zika Interventions and Community Responses in Belize.” Global Public Health Journal 14(1):9-22. https://doi.org/10.1080/17441692.2018.1471146
Manzano, R.*, J. Mishtal, and Shana Harris. 2018. “The Effect of Second Reception Center Practices on Refugee Experiences in Sicily.” Human Organization 77(2): 79-89. https://doi.org/10.17730/0018-7259-77.2.79
Mishtal, J. 2018. “Mobilisation, Protest, and Resistance Against Reproductive Rights Restrictions in Poland.” Antropologia, 5(2):33-54. (Invited). https://doi.org/10.14672/ada2018145633-53
Mishtal, J. 2017. “Quiet Contestations of Irish Abortion Law: Reproductive Health Politics in Flux,” pp. 187-202. In Transcending Borders: Abortion in the Past and Present, S. Stettner, K. Ackerman, K. Burnett, T. Hay (eds). New York: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48399-3_12
Mishtal, J., and M. Radkowska-Walkowicz. 2017. “Introduction: Between Policy and Practice - Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Assisted Reproductive Technologies and Equitable Access to Health Care.” Reproductive Biomedicine & Society, Vol. 3 (March). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rbms.2017.03.001
Franklin A.*, Mishtal J., Johnson Teresa, Simms-Cendan Judith. “Rowers’ Behaviors, Attitudes, and Safety Concerns Related to Exercise, Training, and Competition during Pregnancy.” 2017. The Cureus Journal of Medical Science 9(8):e1534, pp. 1-26. https://doi.org/10.7759/cureus.1534
Mishtal, J. 2016. “Emigration, Exile, and Return: Conducting Anthropological Research in Poland.” Lud Journal – the 100th Year Jubilee Volume, 100:113-122. (Invited) Link here.
Andaya, E., and J. Mishtal. 2016. “The Erosion of Rights to Abortion Care in the United States: A Call for a Renewed Anthropological Engagement with the Politics of Abortion.” Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 30(3):40-59. https://doi.org/10.1111/maq.12298
Kersch, A.*, and J. Mishtal. 2016. “Asylum in Crisis: Migrant Policy, Entrapment, and the Role of Non-Governmental Organizations in Siracusa, Italy.” Refugee Survey Quarterly 35(4): 97-121. https://doi.org/10.1093/rsq/hdw017
Gerdts, C., S. De Zordo, J. Mishtal, Jill Barr-Walker, P. Lohr. 2016. “Experiences of Women Who Travel to England for Abortions: An Exploratory Pilot Study.” European Journal of Contraception and Reproductive Health Care August, 21(5): 401-407. https://doi.org/10.1080/13625187.2016.1217325
De Zordo, S., J. Mishtal, and L. Anton. 2016. “Introduction,” pp. 1-20. In A Fragmented Landscape: Abortion Governance and Associated Protest Logics in Postwar Europe. Berghahn Books: Oxford and New York. In: Protest Culture & Society Series. https://Doi.org/10.3167/9781785334276
Mishtal, J. 2016. “Quietly ‘Beating the System’: The Logics of Protest and Resistance Under the Polish Abortion Ban,” pp. 226-244. In A Fragmented Landscape: Abortion Governance and Protest Logics in Postwar Europe. De Zordo, S., J. Mishtal. and L. Anton (eds). Berghahn Books: Oxford and New York. In: Protest Culture & Society Series. https://doi.org/10.3167/9781785334276
Franklin A.*, Mishtal J., Johnson Teresa, Simms-Cendan Judith. 2015. “Rowers’ behaviors and perceptions about competitive exercise during pregnancy.” Obstetrics & Gynecology. 125:48S. (published abstract) Doi: https://doi.org/10.1097/01.AOG.0000463095.50136.0b
Mishtal, J. 2014. “Understanding Low Fertility in Poland: Demographic Consequences of Gendered Discrimination in Employment and Postsocialist Neoliberal Restructuring.” Etnografia Polska 58(1-2):175-189. (Invited) https://rcin.org.pl/dlibra/publication/77177/edition/59894/content
Mishtal, J. 2014. “Reproductive Governance in the New Europe: Competing Visions of Morality, Sovereignty, and Supranational Policy,” In Special Issue: “Culture, Power and Policymaking in the European Union,” Anthropological Journal of European Cultures, 23(1):59-76. Link here.
Mishtal, J. 2014. “Irrational non-reproduction? The ‘dying nation’ and the postsocialist logics of declining motherhood in Poland,” pp. 15-34. In Reproduction & Biopolitics: Ethnographies of Governance, “Irrationality” and Resistance, edited by S. De Zordo and Milena Marchesi. Oxford: Routledge Press. (Reprint) (Invited) Link here.
Sivén, J.*, and J. Mishtal. 2012. “Yoga as Entrée to Complementary and Alternative Medicine, and Medically Pluralistic Practices.” Human Organization 71(4):348-357. https://doi.org/10.17730/humo.71.4.f262087603m24816
Mishtal, J. 2012. “Irrational non-reproduction? The ‘dying nation’ and the postsocialist logics of declining motherhood in Poland,” In Special Issue: “‘Irrational’ Reproduction: Population Politics and Practices at the Intersection of North and South,” Anthropology & Medicine, 19(2):153-169. https://doi.org/10.1080/13648470.2012.675048
De Zordo, S., and J. Mishtal. 2011. “Physicians and Abortion: Provision, Political Participation and Conflicts on the Ground in Brazil and Poland.” Women’s Health Issues 21(3S):32-36. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.whi.2011.01.006
Gipson, J., D. Becker, J. Mishtal, and Alison Norris. 2011. “Conducting Collaborative Abortion Research in International Settings.” Women’s Health Issues 21(3S):58-62. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.whi.2011.01.005
Mishtal, J. 2010. “Neoliberal Reforms and Privatisation of Reproductive Health Services in Post-Socialist Poland.” Reproductive Health Matters 18(36):56–66. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0968-8080(10)36524-4
Mishtal, J., and R. Dannefer. 2010. “Reconciling Religious Identity and Reproductive Practices: The Church and Contraception in Poland.” European Journal of Contraception and Reproductive Health 15:232–242. https://doi.org/10.3109/13625187.2010.498595
Mishtal, J. Z. 2009. “Understanding Low Fertility in Poland: Demographic Consequences of Postsocialist Neoliberal Restructuring.” Demographic Research 21(20):599-626. https://doi.org/10.4054/DemRes.2009.21.20
Mishtal, J. Z. 2009. “Matters of ‘Conscience’: The Politics of Reproductive Health and Rights in Poland.” Medical Anthropology Quarterly 23(2):161-183. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1548-1387.2009.01053.x
Mishtal, J. Z. 2009. “How the Church Became the State: The Catholic Regime and Reproductive Rights and Policies in Poland,” pp. 133-150. In Gender Politics and Everyday Life in State Socialist Eastern and Central Europe, edited by Jill Massino and Shana Penn. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230101579_9
Book Reviews
Mishtal, J. 2019. The Poverty of Privacy Rights by K. M. Bridges (Stanford University Press, 2017), Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 25(1) 183-184. (Invited) https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.12981
Mishtal, J. 2018. The Devil’s Chain: Prostitution and Social Control in Partitioned Poland by K. Stauter-Halsted (Cornell University Press, 2015), The Polish Review Journal (Invited) https://doi.org/10.5406/polishreview.64.1.0100
Mishtal, J. 2018. Polish Patriotism after 1989: Concepts, Debates, Identities by D. Szeligowska (Peter Lang Publishing, 2016), H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences Online. (Invited) http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=50499
Mishtal, J. 2016. Hierarchy and Pluralism: Living Religious Difference in Catholic Poland by A. Pasieka (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), American Anthropologist 118(4):261. (Invited) https://doi.org/10.1111/aman.12762
Mishtal, J. 2014. Motherhood and Infertility in Ireland: Understanding the Presence of Absence by J. Allison (Cork University Press, 2013), Medical Anthropology Quarterly 29(2):260. (Invited) https://doi.org/10.1111/maq.12155
Mishtal, J. 2010. Women’s Health in Post-Soviet Russia: The Politics of Intervention by M. Rivkin-Fish (Indiana University Press, 2005), Medical Anthropology Quarterly 24(3):424-426. (Invited) https://Doi.org/10.1111/j.1548-1387.2010.01114.x
Research Reports, Policy Position Papers, and Commentaries
Final Scientific Report – European Research Council Grant. 2022. J. Mishtal, Senior Researcher for study: “Women travelling to seek abortion care in Europe: the impact of barriers to legal abortion on women living in countries with ostensibly liberal abortion laws.” Submitted to the University of Barcelona on September 7, 2022. ERC Study ID: 680004 BAR2LEGAB.
Society for Medical Anthropology Statement on Supreme Court Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization Decision. 2022. Co-author: J. Mishtal (one of four) writing on behalf of Society for Medical Anthropology (documentation available). Link here.
Williamson, E., B. McCaffrey, A. Premkumar, J. Mishtal, M. Cogburn, B. Howes-Mischel, and L. Lowe. 2022. “Council on Anthropology and Reproduction (CAR) Statement on the Reversal of Roe v. Wade,” Medical Anthropology Quarterly. Link here.
Mishtal, J., D. Duffy, W. Chavkin, K. Reeves, D. Chakravarty, L. Grimes, B. Stifani, P. Horgan, M. Murphy, M. Favier, and A. F. Lavelanet. 2021. “Policy Implementation – Access to Safe Abortion Services in Ireland Research Dissemination Report,” April 23. UNDP-UNFPA-UNICEF-WHO-World Bank Special Programme of Research, Development and Research Training in Human Reproduction (HRP), Department of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Research, World Health Organization, 20 Avenue Appia, 1211 Geneva, Switzerland. Pp. 1-37.
De Londras, F., S. De Zordo, Fredman, S., Krajewska, A., Mavronicola, N., McGuinness S., Mishtal J., Rubio Marin, R., and R. Scott. 2021. “Third Party Intervention by Scholars of Law and Anthropology: KC v Poland, KB v Poland, AL-B v Poland.” University of Birmingham, Birmingham Law School. Pages 1-12. Link here.
Andaya, E, J. Mishtal. 2017. “Abortion Rights are Being Eroded.” Sapiens, Apr. 18 Issue. Link here.
Andaya, E., J. Mishtal, L. Fordyce, B. Ruder, and R. Cromer. 2016. Society for Medical Anthropology Council on Anthropology and Reproduction Policy Statement: “The Council on Anthropology and Reproduction (CAR) Opposes Legislation that Creates Barriers to Safe Abortion Care.” Medical Anthropology Quarterly 30(1) e-pub. https://doi.org/10.1111/maq.12265
Mishtal, J. 2011. “Position Paper: Global Health Insurance Reform – Lessons from Eastern Europe.” Critical Anthropology of Global Health - Working Group on Health Insurance Reform. (Invited)
Mishtal, J., and W. Chavkin. 2007. “Religion, conscience, and controversial clinical practices.” New England Journal of Medicine 356(18):1890. https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMc070628
Teaching and Service-related Publications (Editor-Reviewed)
Mishtal, Joanna. 2014. “How to Stop Reinventing the Wheel: Reflections on Mentoring Students in Research and Research Writing.” Faculty Focus 13(2):3-4.
Harris, Shana, and Joanna Mishtal. 2014. “The Long and Short of It: Preparing Conference Papers for Discussants.” Anthropology News, Career Development Section, March 27, 2014.
Mishtal, Joanna. 2013. “Encouraging Global Citizenship through Community Engagement.” Faculty Focus 12(1):2-3.