Charis Thompson
Charis Thompson was Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics, and before that a Professor at Harvard and Berkeley. She was a professor of Gender and Women's Studies{{Cite web |url=http://womensstudies.berkeley.edu/about/profile/faculty/34 |title=Berkeley Facility Profile |access-date=2012-11-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121125025905/http://womensstudies.berkeley.edu/about/profile/faculty/34 |archive-date=2012-11-25 |url-status=dead }} in the Department of Gender and Women's Studies at the University of California at Berkeley. She was also associate director, and the founding Director, of the Science, Technology, and Society Center at UC Berkeley.[http://cstms.berkeley.edu/people/charis-thompson/ Berkeley Facility Profile: Charis Thompson]
She is the author of Making Parents: The Ontological Choreography of Reproductive Technologies (MIT Press 2005) [http://www.worldcat.org/wcidentities/lccn-n2004-142681 WorldCat identities] which won the 2007 Rachel Carson Prize from the Society for Social Studies of Science. From that book, she is known for the concept of "ontological choreography".[http://www.spurse.org/wiki/images/1/14/Haraway,_Companion_Species_Manifesto.pdf Spurse.org Haraway Companion Species Manifesto] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110424091337/http://www.spurse.org/wiki/images/1/14/Haraway%2C_Companion_Species_Manifesto.pdf |date=April 24, 2011 }}
Career
She has written on stem cell research, biodiversity conservation, and population. She is the author of Good Science: the Ethical Choreography of Stem Cell Research (MIT Press 2013).
Thompson has degrees from the Science Studies program University of California, San Diego (Ph.D.) and Oxford University (BA Hons).
She was a National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellow at Cornell University's Science, Technology, & Society Department, and Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Harvard University.
She has been a visitor at the Institute for Research on Women and Gender at the University of Michigan and at the Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation, École Supérieure des Mines de Paris.
Personal life
She is a recipient of the Distinguished Teaching Award from the UC Berkeley Social Science Division.
In 2017, she was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU).[https://www.ntnu.edu/phd/honorary-doctors NTNU's list of honorary doctors], ntnu.edu. Accessed 9 December 2022.
References
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- Donna Haraway, Companion Species Manifesto (Prickly Paradigm Press, 2003), p. 8. (https://web.archive.org/web/20110424091337/http://www.spurse.org/wiki/images/1/14/Haraway%2C_Companion_Species_Manifesto.pdf)
- Adele Clarke and Janet Shim, “Medicalization and Biomedicalization Revisited,” in Pescosolido et al. eds. Handbook of the Sociology of Health, Illness, and Healing (Springer 2010), p. 183
External links
- Charis Thompson, professor, Dept of Gender and Women's Studies, UC Berkeley (https://web.archive.org/web/20121125025905/http://womensstudies.berkeley.edu/about/profile/faculty/34)
- Charis Thompson, associate director, Science, Technology, and Society Center, UC Berkeley (http://cstms.berkeley.edu/people/charis-thompson/)
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