Faculty and Researchers with STS Interests - Profile

Jennifer Reardon
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology
University of California, Santa Cruz


Email: reardon1@ucsc.edu

Jenny Reardon is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz and Adjunct Research Professor of Women's Studies at Duke University. She received her Ph.D. in Science and Technology Studies from Cornell University in August 2002. From Fall 1999-Spring 2002, she was a Fellow in Science, Technology and Public Policy at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. She taught in the Division of Biology and Medicine at Brown University from 2002-2004, and was a fellow at the Institute of Genome Sciences and Policy and a research assistant professor Women's Studies at Duke University from 2004-2005. Her book, Race to the Finish: Identity and Governance in an Age of Genomics, was published with Princeton University Press in 2005. Under a sole-investigator grant from the National Science Foundation, Reardon is currently investigating the paradoxes and dilemmas that confront researchers, policy makers and potential research subjects who seek to address the problems of governance and research design created by the focus on human groups as objects of genomic analysis. She is also engaged in a study of the emergence of genomic medicine that aims to clarify the concepts of health, disease, justice, individual, race, population, and environment that both shape and are formed by efforts to translate genomic information into medical practice. In all her research, Reardon seeks to extend our emerging understanding of how science and the social order are constituted together, and explores how such understandings might help us to more adequately address questions of social justice in a technoscientific age. She is a primary organizer of a two-year Science and Justice Initiative at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Website: http://sociology.ucsc.edu/directory/details.php?id=34

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