Curriculum Vitae
This is my online CV. You may also download the CV as PDF.
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. Advisors: Stefan Timmermans and Susan Kahn
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.
Publications
“Pharmaceutical Meaning-Making Beyond Marketing: Racialized Subjects of Generic Thiazide.” The Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics 36.3 (September 2008): 530-536.
“The Internal Cardiac Defibrillator.” Ed. Sherry Turkle. The Inner History of Devices: Technology and Self. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2008: 98-111.
“Complicating Power in High-Tech Reproduction: Narratives of Anonymous Paid Egg Donors,” in Journal of the Medical Humanities, 24.3/4 (Winter 2003): 241-263.
Invited Talks
“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” University of California – Davis, Science and Technology Studies, 2007.
“Medicating Race: Thiazide, Hypertension, and Durable Preoccupations with Difference” Georgia Tech, School of Literature, Communication and Culture, 2007.
Retrofitting Women’s Heart Health: A Meditation on the Death of Betty Friedan” MIT Program in Women’s Studies, 2006.
“Technology to the Heart: Experiences of Internal Cardioverter Defibrillators” Evocative Objects Symposium, MIT Initiative on Technology and Self, 2004.
Conference Presentations
“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 the Social Studies of Science, Montreal, 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 the Social Studies of Science, Pasadena, CA, 2005.
“Racing Pharmaceutical Logics of African American Heart Disease” Society for the Social Studies of Science, Paris, France, 2004.
“Technologies of the Heart: Experience and Internal Defibrillators” Society of the Social Studies of Science, Atlanta, GA, 2003.
“D.C.’s Black Postal Workers and Anthrax: Multiple Failures of Health Care,” Society for the Social Studies of Science, Milwaukee, WI, 2002.
Conference and Workshop Organizing
“Horror, Health and the Reproductive Body” and “Chimeric Companions” Session Chair. Society for Science, Literature, and the Arts, Charlotte, NC 2008.
“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, with Joseph Dumit, 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
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.
“Narrating Disease,” Georgia Tech, Spring 2009.
“Introduction to Science, Technology and Culture,” Georgia Tech, Fall 2008.
“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.
Professional Memberships
- Society for the Social Studies of Science
- Society for Literature, Science and the Arts
