Faculty Profile

Assistant Professor of U.S. History
Tom Raper 244
jclicata@iu.edu

Ph.D. in United States History, University of North Carolina Greensboro, 2020
Post-Baccalaureate Certificate in Women's and Gender Studies, University of North Carolina Greensboro, 2017
M.A. in American History, University of North Carolina Greensboro, 2012
B.A. in History, Wagner College, 2009

Reproductive justice, population control, neoliberal social policies, abortion

20th century U.S., women's history, and African American history

Research Support Grant, Schlesinger Library at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, 2023-2024.
Travel to the Collection Fellowship, Sophia Smith Collections: Women's History Archives at Smith College, 2023-2024.

Dudley-Shotwell, Hannah, and Justina Licata. "Abortion Funders in the Southeast are 'Helping People Decide What They Want to Do With Their Lives,'" Ms. Magazine, February 16, 2024 (https://msmagazine.com/2024/02/16/pay-for-abortion-fund-north-carolina-south-carolina-tennessee-mississippi-alabama-georgia-florida/).
Levenstein, Lisa and Justina Licata. "Reading the Fine Print in North Carolina's Abortion Law," NC Newsline, September 18, 2023 (https://ncnewsline.com/2023/09/18/reading-the-fine-print-in-north-carolinas-new-abortion-law/).

"Abortion Funds: Overshadowed and Underfunded" Roundtable, National Women's Studies Association Conference, Baltimore, Maryland, October 26-29, 2023.
"The Global Fight Against Norplant: A Transnational Feminist History" National Women's Studies Association Conference, Baltimore, Maryland, October 26-29, 2023.
"Punitive Norplant Measures: A History of Coercive Sterilization Practices," Berkshire Conference of Women's Historians, Santa Clara University, California, June 28-July 2, 2023.