Hannah Landecker
{{Short description|American sociologist}}
{{Infobox academic
| name = Hannah Landecker
| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1969}}
| education = University of British Columbia (BSc)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD)
| discipline = Sociology
Anthropology
| sub_discipline = History of science
| workplaces = Rice University
University of Texas Medical Branch
University of California, Los Angeles
}}
Hannah L. Landecker (born 1969){{Cite web |title=Hannah L. Landecker {{!}} People {{!}} The Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments |url=http://waywiser.rc.fas.harvard.edu/people/8960/hannah-l-landecker;jsessionid=850E4DBFF90FFDB63195ADEED10D0C3D |access-date=2022-10-18 |website=waywiser.rc.fas.harvard.edu |language=en}} is an Australian author and academic working as a professor of sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles and the UCLA Institute for Society and Genetics.
Education
Landecker earned a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of British Columbia and a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Career
Landecker's research interests are the social and historical study of biotechnology and life science and the intersections of biology and technology, with a particular focus on cells and the in vitro conditions of life in research settings.{{cite news |title=Hannah Landecker |url=http://www.soc.ucla.edu/people/faculty?lid=5351 |access-date=2008-10-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090331215241/http://www.soc.ucla.edu/people/faculty?lid=5351 |archive-date=2009-03-31 |url-status=dead }} Landecker was assistant professor of anthropology at Rice University through 2007. She was a visiting scholar at University of Texas Medical Branch in 2004, where she worked on a project that examined the changing human relationship to living matter in an age of biotechnology. She has also worked on developing new methods and curricula for teaching the history and social study of biotechnology to undergraduates.{{cite news |publisher=Institute for the Medical Humanities |access-date=2007-08-21 |title=Institute for the Medical Humanities |url=http://www.utmb.edu/imh/scholarlist.asp |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070213062458/http://www.utmb.edu/imh/scholarlist.asp |archive-date=2007-02-13 }} Recent work includes looking at ways in which antibiotic resistance has become a key marker of the Anthropocene.{{Cite web |url=http://ias.umn.edu/2014/01/30/ias-thursdays-january-30/ |title=IAS Thursdays: Hannah Landecker on Biofallibility | Institute for Advanced Study |access-date=2014-02-05 |archive-date=2013-12-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131219023148/http://ias.umn.edu/2014/01/30/ias-thursdays-january-30/ |url-status=dead }}
Publications
- Culturing Life: How Cells Became Technologies; Harvard University Press (2007) [http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/LANCUL.html][https://www.newscientist.com/channel/life/mg19325922.700-culturing-life-how-cells-became-technologies-by-hannah-landecker.html]
- Cellular Features: Microcinematography and Early Film Theory, Critical Inquiry 31(4):903-937. (2005)[https://web.archive.org/web/20070516131506/http://criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/issues/current/31n4landecker.html]
- Living Differently in Time: Plasticity, Temporality, and Cellular Biotechnologies, Culture Machine 7 (2005) [https://web.archive.org/web/20070927005043/http://culturemachine.tees.ac.uk/Cmach/Backissues/j007/Articles/landecker.htm]
- Immortality, In Vitro: A History of the HeLa Cell Line. Biotechnology and Culture: Bodies, Anxieties, Ethics, ed. Paul Brodwin; Indiana University Press: 53–74. (2000)
References
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External links
- [http://www.sociology.ucla.edu/faculty/hannah-landecker Hannah Landecker] at UCLA
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Category:University of British Columbia alumni
Category:Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
Category:Rice University faculty
Category:University of California, Los Angeles faculty
Category:American sociologists
Category:American women sociologists
Category:American women social scientists
Category:Sociologists of science
Category:American historians of science
Category:21st-century American women writers