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Prof. Dr. Jenny Reardon

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University of California
Sociology and History of Science, Science and Technology Studies

External Senior Fellow 
March 2024 – August 2024

E-Mail: Reardon1@ucsc.edu

Last Update: 08.11.2024

Curriculum Vitae

Jenny Reardon is a Professor of Sociology and the Founding Director of the Science and Justice Research Center at the University of California, Santa Cruz.  Reardon’s research draws into focus questions about identity, justice and democracy that are often silently embedded in scientific ideas and practices, particularly in modern genomic research. Her training spans molecular biology, the history of biology, science studies, feminist and critical race studies, and the sociology of science, technology and medicine. She is the author of Race to the Finish: Identity and Governance in an Age of Genomics (Princeton University Press, 2005) and The Postgenomic Condition: Ethics, Justice, Knowledge After the Genome (Chicago University Press, Fall 2017).  She was the PI of the NSF grant that funded the creation of the Science and Justice Training Program (SJTP), an internationally unique pedagogical effort to provide the transdisciplinary training needed to create a next generation of scholars able to recognize and respond to places where questions of science meet questions of justice.  She is currently the PI of the NSF grant that supports the first phase of the Leadership in the Equitable and Ethical Design (LEED) of STEM initiative.  She has been the recipient of fellowships and awards from, among others, the National Science Foundation, the Max Planck Institute, the Humboldt Foundation, the Westinghouse Science Talent Search, and the United States Congressional Committee on Science, Space and Technology. 

Selected Publications

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