Speaker bio

Shelia Jasanoff
Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies
Harvard University

Sheila Jasanoff, Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, has held academic appointments at Cornell, Yale, Oxford, Cambridge, and Kyoto universities. At Cornell, she founded and chaired the Department of Science and Technology Studies. She researches the relationship of science and technology to politics and policy in modern democratic societies with a particular focus on the uses of science in legal and regulatory settings. Jasanoff has written and lectured widely on problems of environmental policy and the democratization of science in the United States, Europe, and India. Her books include Controlling Chemicals (co-written, 1985), The Fifth Branch (1990), and Science at the Bar (1995). Her latest book, Designs on Nature, a comparative study of the politics of biotechnology in Europe and the United States, was published by Princeton in 2005. Jasanoff has served on the board of directors of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and as president of the Society for Social Studies of Science, whose J.D. Bernal award she received in 2004. She holds an A.B., Ph.D. and J.D. from Harvard University and an honorary doctorate from the University of Twente (2006).

Sessions Featuring This Speaker
Saturday, Oct. 20, 2007

• Plenary: Imagining the New: Barriers and Opportunities at 8:30-10 a.m.

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