Curriculum Vitae
Education
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2001-2007. PhD in History and Social Study of Science and Technology. Advisors: Joseph Dumit, David Jones, Sherry Turkle
Brandeis University. Waltham, Massachusetts, 1995-1998. BA summa cum laude with highest honors in Sociology and Women’s Studies.
Johns Hopkins University. Baltimore, Maryland, 1993-1994.
Employment
Georgia Institute of Technology. Atlanta, GA. 2008-. Assistant Professor of Science, Technology and Culture. School of Literature, Communication and Culture.
Rice University. Houston, TX. 2007-2008. Visiting Lecturer of Science, Technology and Society. Department of Anthropology.
Book Manuscript
Medicating Race: Heart Disease and Durable Preoccupations with Difference, Duke University Press forthcoming 2012.
Journal Articles and Book Chapters
“Cultural Economy of Racialized Pharmaceuticals in the US.” In The Value of Transnational Medical Research, edited by Ann Kelly and P. Wenzel Geissler, Routledge, forthcoming 2012.
“Transforming the Critique of Big Pharma,” BioSocieties 6.1 (March 2011): 106-118.
“Reading Friedan Toward a Feminist Articulation of Heart Disease.” Body & Society 16.4 (December 2010): 77-97.
“Pharmaceutical Meaning-Making Beyond Marketing: Racialized Subjects of Generic Thiazide.” The Journal of Law, Medicine, & Ethics 36.3 (September 2008): 530-536.
“The Internal Cardiac Defibrillator.” In The Inner History of Devices, edited by Sherry Turkle, 98-111. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2008.
“Complicating Power in High-Tech Reproduction: Narratives of Anonymous Paid Egg Donors.” Journal of Medical Humanities, 24.3/4 (Winter 2003): 241-263.
Other Publications
Review of How Cancer Crossed the Color Line by Keith Wailoo, in Isis (forthcoming March 2012).
Troubling With ‘the Ethics of the Thing’ in Culturing Life: How Cells Became Technologies and The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Essay Review, coauthored with Melissa Littlefield, of Culturing Life: How Cells Became Technologies, by Hannah Landecker, and The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot, Social Studies of Science 41.4 (August 2011): 609-618.
Review of The Professional Guinea Pig: Big Pharma and the Risky World of Human Subjects by Roberto Abadie, in American Anthropologist 113.2 (June 2011): 356-357.
Invited Talks
“Race and Medicine: Toward Ethical Noninnocence” Centre for the Study of Invention and Social Process, Goldsmiths College, University of London, 2011.
“Big Pharma Stagnant and Dynamic: Transforming the Critique” STS Circle, Harvard University, 2010.
“On the Commercial Failure of BiDil: The Appeals and Unpalatabilities of the Drug for ‘Heart Failure in Self-Identified Black Patients’” Institute for Science and Society Seminar Series, University of Nottingham , 2010.
“Pharmaceutical Failures: Torcetrapib, BiDil, and Resistances to the Saturation of American Publics with Drugs” Institute of Social Sciences Biopolitics of Science Seminar Series, University of Sydney, 2010.
“There’s a Pill for That!: Grappling with the Durable Appeal of the Slavery Hypothesis for African American Hypertension” Science in Human Culture Lecture Series, Northwestern University, 2009.
“Medicating Race: Thiazide, Hypertension, and Durable Preoccupations with Difference” Science and Technology Studies Colloquium, University of California – Davis, 2007.
Invited Criticism
Critic, Author Meets Critics Session for Marsha Rosengarten’s HIV Interventions: Biomedicine and the Traffic Between Information and Flesh British Sociological Association: Medical Sociology Annual Conference, Chester, UK, 2011.
Book Forum Panelist, Hannah Landecker’s Culturing Life: How Cells Became Technologies Society for Literature, Science and the Arts, Indianapolis, IN, 2010.
Critic, Author Meets Critics Session for Jill Fisher’s Medical Research for Hire: The Political Economy of Pharmaceutical Clinical Trials American Sociological Association, Atlanta, GA, 2010.
Critic, Author Meets Critics Session for Jeremy Greene’s Prescribing By Numbers: Drugs and the Definition of Disease Society for Social Studies of Science, Washington, D.C., 2009.
Conference Presentations
“Contours of American Biological Citizenship in a Prison Sentence Suspended for a Kidney” Society for Social Studies of Science, Cleveland, OH, 2011.
“Contesting Black Exclusion from a Disease of Modernity” Making Sense of Illness, Health, and Disease: Chronic Disease, Oxford, UK, 2011.
“Heart Feminism” Society for Literature, Science and the Arts, Indianapolis, IN, 2010.
“Toward Situating South African Drug Discovery: Preliminary Comments on iThemba Pharmaceuticals” Society for Social Studies of Science, Tokyo, Japan, 2010.
“Transforming the Critique of Pharmaceuticals Amid Economic Crisis and the Pharmaceuticalization of Philanthropy” Society for Social Studies of Science, Washington, DC, 2009.
“BiDil Biopolitics: The Appeal and Unpalatibility of Medicating Race” Vital Politics III, London, UK, 2009.
“Constructing and Supplementing Framingham’s Normal White Americans” Society for Social Studies of Science, Montreal, QC, 2007.
“(Dis)heartening Women’s Health: Emerging Articulations of Women’s Heart Disease” Graduate Consortium in Women’s Studies Conference, Cambridge, MA, 2006.
“Racialized Rx Without the ®TM: Tracking the Commodity Fetishisms of Generic Thiazide” MIT Conference on Race, Pharmaceuticals, and Medical Technology, 2006.
“Racialization of a Generic Drug: The Commodity Fetishism of Thiazide” Society for Social Studies of Science, Pasadena, CA, 2005.
“Racing Pharmaceutical Logics of African American Heart Disease” Society for Social Studies of Science, Paris, France, 2004.
“Technology to the Heart: Experiences of Internal Cardioverter Defibrillators” Evocative Objects Symposium, MIT Initiative on Technology and Self, 2004.
“Technologies of the Heart: Experience and Internal Defibrillators” Society for Social Studies of Science, Atlanta, GA, 2003.
“D.C.’s Black Postal Workers and Anthrax: Multiple Failures of Health Care,” Society for Social Studies of Science, Milwaukee, WI, 2002.
Conference and Workshop Organizing
Society for Literature, Science and the Arts Annual Meeting Site Committee, 2009.
“How do we know our Hearts are Diseased?” Panel organizer and moderator. Society for Social Studies of Science, Montreal, 2007.
“Business of Race and Science” Conference organizing committee member. Center for the Study of Diversity in Science, Technology and Medicine. MIT, 2007.
“Race, Pharmaceuticals, and Medical Technology.” Conference organizing committee member. Center for the Study of Diversity in Science, Technology and Medicine. MIT, 2006.
“Shifting Gender Identities in the Face of War, Globalization, and Natural Disaster.” Organizing committee member and MIT Representative. Graduate Consortium in Women’s Studies Conference, Cambridge, MA, 2006.
Body/Technology Working Group. Founder and coordinator. Sponsored by the MIT Initiative on Technology and Self, 2002-2005.
“A feminist toolkit for thinking re-productively about biomedicine, agriculture, and photography.” Organizer and moderator of workshop with Claudia Castaneda. Cosponsored by STS and Women’s Studies, MIT, 2005.
“Menstruation Suppression: Cultural and Biomedical Inventions.” Co-organizer of workshop with Giovanna Chesler. Cosponsored by STS, Women’s Studies, and Biology, MIT, 2005.
“Plural Perspectives on Lesbian Artificial Insemination.” Organizer and moderator of panel discussion with Amy Agigian, Mary Baunato, and Jenifer Firestone. Cosponsored by Women’s Studies Politics and Technologies of Motherhood Series, LBGT Programming, and the Science Technology and Society Colloquium, 2003.
Fellowships and Grants
Dean’s Small Grants for Research, 2011. Ivan Allen College, Georgia Tech.
International Travel Grant, 2009, 2010, 2011. Georgia Tech Foundation.
Summer Support, 2010. Ivan Allen College Incentives for Seeking Extramural Research Funding (ISERF), Georgia Tech.
Doctoral Fellow, 2005-2007. Center for the Study of Diversity in Science, Technology, and Medicine, MIT.
Human Rights Internship, 2003. MIT Program in Human Rights and Justice. Internship at Vacha (Voice for Women), Mumbai, India. Web and other writing for health advocacy for preadolescent girls.
Teaching Experience
“Biomedicine and Culture,” Georgia Tech, Spring 2009, Spring 2010, Summer 2010, Spring 2011, Spring 2012.
“Medical Ways of Knowing,” Georgia Tech, Spring 2011, Spring 2012.
“Science, Technology, and Gender,” Georgia Tech, Fall 2010.
“Senior Seminar in Biomedicine and Culture: Drugs and Culture” Georgia Tech, Fall 2010.
“Introduction to Science, Technology and Culture,” Georgia Tech, Fall 2009, Fall 2008.
“Narrating Disease,” Georgia Tech, Spring 2009.
“Introduction to Biomedicine and Culture,” Georgia Tech, Fall 2008.
“Introduction to Science, Technology and Society,” Rice University, Spring 2008.
“Biotechnology and Culture,” Rice University, Fall 2007.
Service
Georgia Tech
LCC Executive Committee Member, 2011-2012.
LCC Undergraduate Curriculum Committee Member, 2010-2011.
LCC Writing and Communication Committee Member, 2008-2009.
Ivan Allen College Legacy Award Selection Committee, 2009.
Professional
Grant Review for: National Science Foundation, Australian National Health and Medical Research Council
Manuscript Review for: MIT Press, Social Science and Medicine, Journal of Law Medicine and Ethics, Science as Culture, BioSocieties
Professional Memberships
Society for Social Studies of Science (2002-present)
Society for Literature, Science and the Arts (2008-present)
