Lindsay Cannon

Lindsay Cannon is a sociologist and demographer with research interests in health and gender. Her mixed methods research focuses on reproductive health and gender-based violence, applying trauma-informed, survivor-centered, and reproductive justice frameworks. Lindsay’s dissertation work investigates how birthing people with chronic health conditions make decisions about pregnancy and parenting in light of constrained choices. This work explores how racial and socioeconomic (dis)advantage interact with chronic health conditions to produce differential gaps between fertility desires and achieved fertility, using both qualitative and demographic methods. Lindsay’s other streams of research focus on gender-based violence and educational attainment, intimate partner violence and fertility, reproductive and contraceptive coercion, and reproductive health among women who use substances. 

Lindsay holds bachelor’s degrees in Neuroscience and Psychology from The Ohio State University and Master of Public Health and Master of Social Work degrees from the University of Michigan.

In the Reproductive Equity Action Lab (REAL), Lindsay works on projects related to contraceptive coercion by healthcare providers and reproductive coercion from intimate partners.

What do you collect?
I collect books (971 currently) and enamel pins from my travels.

What is your special talent?
I am unbeatable at the 1990 video game Dr. Mario.

What’s your favorite outdoor activity?
I love to kayak and snowshoe!