Erika Bachiochi

Fellow Erika Bachiochi is a legal scholar who works at the intersection of constitutional law, political theory, women’s history, and Catholic social teaching. She is a Professor of Practice at the School for Civic and Economic Thought and Leadership at Arizona State University, where she teaches courses in the history of political thought, directs the Mercy Otis Warren Initiative for Women in Civic Life and Thought, and serves as founding editor-in-chief of its online journal, Fairer Disputations.

A 2018 visiting scholar at Harvard Law School, she remains a Senior Fellow at the Abigail Adams Institute in Cambridge, MA where she founded its Wollstonecraft Project. Her book, The Rights of Women: Reclaiming a Lost Vision, was published by Notre Dame University Press in 2021, and was named a finalist for the Intercollegiate Studies Institute’s 2022 Conservative Book of the Year award. She is also the editor of two books, Women, Sex & the Church: A Case for Catholic Teaching (Pauline Books & Media, 2010) and The Cost of “Choice”: Women Evaluate the Impact of Abortion (Encounter Books, 2004). Her academic articles can be found at SSRN.

Ms. Bachiochi’s more popular essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, Politico, First Things, American Compass, Compact, CNN.com, The New Digest, National Review Online, National Affairs, Institute for Family Studies, Claremont Review of Books, SCOTUSblog, National Catholic Register, America, and Public Discourse.

Ms. Bachiochi serves on the Advisory Boards/Councils of the Moral Ecology Trust; the Center for the Law and the Human Person at CUA; the American Institute for Boys and Men; the Susan B. Anthony Birthplace Museum; and St. Thomas More Academy (South Bend). She is a co-founder of St. Benedict Classical Academy in Natick, MA, and serves on the Board of Trustees at Montrose School.