Alicia Gutierrez-Romine

Born and raised in the Inland Empire, Dr. Gutierrez-Romine earned her BA in history from CSUSB in 2010 and her Ph.D. in history from the University of Southern California in 2016. Her book From Back Alley to the Border: Criminal Abortion in California, 1920-1969 (University of Nebraska Press, 2020, rev. 2023) explores the history of criminal abortion and abortion legislation in California before Roe v. Wade. Most recently, her expertise on the topic led to her invitation to contribute to the book Roe v. Wade: Fifty Years After (University of Georgia Press, 2024). Gutierrez-Romine’s work has also been published in Beyond the Borders of the Law: Critical Legal Histories of the North American West (University Press of Kansas, 2018), in California History, and the Southern California Quarterly. She was awarded the American Historical Association’s Littleton-Griswold Grant in 2020 and the Huntington Library's Mayers Short Term Fellowship in 2022. She has been featured on C-SPAN, the Science Channel, in the Los Angeles Times, The Economist, and The New Yorker, among others. Her research and abortion scholarship also resulted in Governor Gavin Newsom posthumously pardoning Laura Miner, a 1940s San Diego abortion provider. Her current project explores intersections of race and professional medicine in Southern California and the borderlands.

Before Dr. Gutierrez-Romine joined the faculty at CSUSB, she was an associate professor of history at La Sierra University.

Dr. Gutierrez-Romine with the USC-Huntington ICW.
Dr. Gutierrez-Romine on C-SPAN.
Dr. Gutierrez-Romine on C-SPAN Lectures in History.
Dr. Gutierrez-Romine on the New Books Network podcast.
Dr. Gutierrez-Romine on The Economist Checks and Balances podcast.
Dr. Gutierrez-Romine's short essay with Zócalo Public Square.
Dr. Gutierrez-Romine's short essay with Space on Space Magazine.