Jenny Reardon
Director
Jenny Reardon is Professor of Sociology and Faculty Affiliate in the Center for Biomolecular Science and Engineering at UC Santa Cruz. She founded and directs the Science and Justice Research Center at UCSC. She is the author of Race to the Finish: Identity and Governance in an Age of Genomics (Princeton University Press, 2005) and has finished her second manuscript, The Postgenomic Condition: Ethics, Justice, Knowledge After the Genome (University of Chicago, Forthcoming).
Mailstop: Rachel Carson College Faculty Services | reardon1(at)ucsc.edu | tel: 831-459-1645
Kate Darling
Assistant Director of Research and Academic Programs
Katherine (Kate) Weatherford Darling is a sociologist working across the boundaries of the sociology of health, illness and disability, and feminist science studies. Kate is currently a Doctoral Candidate at UC San Francisco. She first joined the Science and Justice Research Center as a Visiting Scholar and a Graduate Student Researcher in 2015 and worked with the SJRC team to plan the Just Data? conference held May 2016 at UCSC.
Mailstop: College 8 Faculty Services | kdarling(at)ucsc.edu | tel: 831-459-4133
Karen Barad
Co-Director, Science and Justice Training Program
Karen Barad is Professor of Feminist Studies, Philosophy, and History of Consciousness at the UCSC. Her Ph.D. is in theoretical particle physics. She held a tenured appointment in a physics department before moving into more interdisciplinary spaces. She is the author of Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning (Duke University Press, 2007) and numerous articles in the fields of physics, philosophy, science studies, poststructuralist theory, and feminist theory. Her research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Hughes Foundation, the Irvine Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Humanities Academic Services | kbarad(at)ucsc.edu | tel: 831-459-1925