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Jennifer Reardon

  
Jennifer Reardon
    Title:  Associate Professor
    Type:  Faculty Member
    Email:  reardon1@ucsc.edu
    Phone:  (831) 459-1645 Office
(831) 459-3516 Message
    Office:  College 8, 323
    Office Hours:  Fall 2009: Wed 10:30-12:30 and 2-3pm; and by appt. (not teaching this quarter)<br><br> Please Note: Office hours are held in Engineering 2, 537B (not at College 8). WED OCT 7: WILL BE LATE; OFFICE HOURS WILL BEGIN ABOUT 11:15
    Personal Page:  http://www2.ucsc.edu/scienceandjustice/reardon.php

Courses Taught 
SOCY-10 - Issues/Problems in Amer Society
SOCY-290 - Adv. Topics in Soc. Analysis

Research Focus 
Issues of social identity as influenced by the new sciences of genetics and genomics; intersection of the sociology of science and knowledge; sociology of race, gender and class.

Education History 
Ph.D., Science and Technology Studies, Cornell University
M.A., Science and Technology Studies, Cornell University
B.A. in Political Science and B.S. in Biology, University of Kansas - Lawrence

Selected Publications 
PUBLICATIONS

Books and Monographs

Reardon, Jenny. 2005. Race to the Finish: Identity and Governance in an Age of Genomics (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University).

Articles in Professional Journals

Race and Biology: Beyond the Perpetual Return of Crisis, Hans-Jorg Rheinberger and Staffan Mueller-Wille, Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Wissenschaften, Technik und Medizin (NTM Journal of the History of Science, Technology and Medicine) 16[3]: 373-77.

Reardon, Jenny. 2008. “Reckless Driving: Race Through Mass Spec and Global Capital on Highwaydarkmatter 1:2 (http://www.darkmatter101.org/site/2008/02/23/reckless-driving/).

Bolnick, D., Fullwiley, D., Duster, T., Cooper, R., Fujimura, J., Kahn, J., Kauffman, J., Marks, J., Morning, A., Nelson, A., Ossario, P., Reverby, S., Reardon, J, Tallbear, K, The Science and Business of Genetic Ancestry Testing, Science 318: 399-400

Reardon, Jenny. 2007. Democratic Mis-Haps: The Problem of Democratization in a Time of Biopolitics, BioSocieties 2: 239-256.

Reardon, Jenny. 2004. “Decoding Race and Human Difference in A Genomic Age.” differences 15[3]: 38-65.

Reardon, Jenny. 2001. "The Human Genome Diversity Project: A Case Study in Coproduction." Social Studies of Science 31[3]: 357-388.

Chapters in Books

Reardon, Jenny. 2008. “Race Without Salvation: Beyond the Science/Society Divide in Genomic Studies of Human Differences.” In Barbara A. Koenig, Sandra Soo-Jin Lee, and Sarah Richardson, eds., Revisiting Race in a Genomic Age (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press): 304-319.

Reardon, Jenny. 2006. “Creating Participatory Subjects: Race, Science and Democracy in a Genomic Age.” In Scott Frickel and Kelly Moore eds., The New Political Sociology of Science: Institutions, Networks, and Power (Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press): 351-377.

Reardon, Jenny and Brady Dunklee and Kara Wentworth. 2006. “Race and Crisis.” Social Science Research Council Forum on “Is ‘Race’ Real?” http://raceandgenomics.ssrc.org/Reardon/.

WORKS IN PROGRESS

Reardon, Jenny. Forthcoming. “Anti-Colonial Genomic Practice? Learning from Chacmool and the Genographic Project.” International Journal of Cultural Property.

Reardon, Jenny. Forthcoming. “Responsibility for Rights: Human Population Genomics and the Dilemma of Difference.” In Sheila Jasanoff ed. Reframing Rights: The Constitutional Implications of Technological Change.