Professor Ziegler Contributes to Forthcoming Biden Book Featured in N.Y. Times

Professor Mary Ziegler is a contributor to a first scholarly history of Joe Biden’s presidency. On Feb. 26, the New York Times reported on a recent two-day gathering at Princeton University of Ziegler and other academics involved with the book.

Ziegler, one of the world’s leading historians on the debates over abortion, IVF and reproduction in the United States, contributed a chapter on reproductive rights to the book, The Presidency of Joseph R. Biden: A First Historical Assessment, which is set to be published by Princeton University Press in 2026.

Martin Luther King Jr. Professor of Law Mary Ziegler is an expert on the law, history, and politics of reproduction, health care, and conservatism in the United States from 1945 to the present.