Londa Schiebinger
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Londa Schiebinger is a historian of science
specialising in research on the relationship between gender and science. She is the John L. Hinds Professor of History of Science, and the Barbara D. Finberg Director of the Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford University
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She graduated from University of Nebraska with a B.A. in English in 1974, from Harvard University
with a M.A. in History in 1977, and with a Ph.D. in History in 1984.
She works on gendered innovations in science, medicine, and engineering, where she and her team explore how gender analysis
, when turned to science and technology, can spark creativity by opening new questions and fields for future research.
She lectured at the University of Oldenburg, and the Adelaide Festival of Ideas.
History of science
The history of science is the study of the historical development of human understandings of the natural world and the domains of the social sciences....
specialising in research on the relationship between gender and science. She is the John L. Hinds Professor of History of Science, and the Barbara D. Finberg Director of the Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford University
Stanford University
The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...
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She graduated from University of Nebraska with a B.A. in English in 1974, from Harvard University
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
with a M.A. in History in 1977, and with a Ph.D. in History in 1984.
She works on gendered innovations in science, medicine, and engineering, where she and her team explore how gender analysis
Gender analysis
Gender analysis is a type of socio-economic analysis that uncovers how gender relations affect a development problem. The aim may just be to show that gender relations will probably affect the solution, or to show how they will affect the solution and what could be done...
, when turned to science and technology, can spark creativity by opening new questions and fields for future research.
She lectured at the University of Oldenburg, and the Adelaide Festival of Ideas.
Awards
Schiebinger's awards have included- 2005 Prize in Atlantic History, American Historical AssociationAmerican Historical AssociationThe American Historical Association is the oldest and largest society of historians and professors of history in the United States. Founded in 1884, the association promotes historical studies, the teaching of history, and the preservation of and access to historical materials...
, for Plants and Empire - 2005 Alf Andrew Heggoy Book Prize, French Colonial Historical Society, for Plants and Empire
- 2005 J. Worth Estes Prize for the History of Pharmacology, American Association for the History of Medicine, for Feminist History of Colonial Science
- 1999 Alexander von Humboldt Research Prize, Berlin,
- 2001-2004 National Science FoundationNational Science FoundationThe National Science Foundation is a United States government agency that supports fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering. Its medical counterpart is the National Institutes of Health...
Grant - 2002-2004 National Science Foundation Scholars Award
- 1999-2000 Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Berlin Senior Research Fellow
- 1998 National Institutes of HealthNational Institutes of HealthThe National Institutes of Health are an agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services and are the primary agency of the United States government responsible for biomedical and health-related research. Its science and engineering counterpart is the National Science Foundation...
, National Library of Medicine Fellowship - 1994 Margaret W. Rossiter History of Women in Science PrizeMargaret W. Rossiter History of Women in Science PrizeMargaret W. Rossiter History of Women in Science Prize is awarded for an outstanding book or article on the history of women in science, by the History of Science Society....
- 1991-1993, 1996 National Science Foundation Scholars Award
- 1995 Deutsche ForschungsgemeinschaftDeutsche ForschungsgemeinschaftThe Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft is an important German research funding organization and the largest such organization in Europe.-Function:...
- 1991-1992 Guggenheim Fellow
- 1988-89 Rockefeller Foundation Humanist-in-Residence
- 1986-87 National Endowment for the HumanitiesNational Endowment for the HumanitiesThe National Endowment for the Humanities is an independent federal agency of the United States established by the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965 dedicated to supporting research, education, preservation, and public programs in the humanities. The NEH is located at...
Fellowship - 1985-1986 Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship
- Summer 1985 Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst Grant
- 1983-84 Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, Woodrow Wilson Foundation
- Summer 1982 Marion and Jasper Whiting Fellowship, Paris
- 1980-81 Fulbright-Hayes Graduate Scholar in Germany
Books
- Dual-Career Academic Couples: What Universities Need to Know, Londa L. Schiebinger, Andrea Davies Henderson, Shannon K. Gilmartin, Stanford University, 2008, ISBN 9780981774602
- Gendered Innovations in Science and Engineering, Edited by Londa Schiebinger. Stanford University Press, 2008 ISBN 9780804758147
- Agnotology: The Making and Unmaking of Ignorance, Edited by Robert N. Proctor, Londa Schiebinger. Stanford University Press 2008, ISBN 9780804756525
- Plants and Empire: Colonial Bioprospecting in the Atlantic World, Harvard University Press. 2004, ISBN 9780674014879
- Foreign Translation: Japanese (Kosakusha Publishing Co., in progress). Winner of the Prize in Atlantic History, American Historical Association, 2005, and the Alf Andrew Heggoy Book Prize, French Colonial Historical Society, 2005. ISBN 0674014871
- Colonial Botany: Science, Commerce, and Politics, edited by Londa Schiebinger, Claudia Swan (University of Pennsylvania Press) 2004.
- Nature's Body: Gender in the Making of Modern Science Beacon Press, 1993, ISBN 9780807089002; New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2004 ISBN 9780813535319
- Foreign Translations: Japanese (Tokyo: Kosakusha Publishing Co., 1996); German (Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta Verlag, 1995); and Hungarian (in preparation). Winner of the Ludwik Fleck Book Prize, Society for Social Studies of Science, 1995.
- Feminism in Twentieth-Century Science, Technology, and Medicine, edited by Angela Creager, Elizabeth Lunbeck, and Londa Schiebinger, University of Chicago Press, 2001, ISBN 9780226120249
- Oxford Companion to the Body, edited by Colin Blakemore and Sheila Jennett; Section editors Alan Cuthbert, Roy Porter, Tom Sears, Londa Schiebinger, and Tilli Tansey (Oxford University Press) 2001.
- Feminism and the Body, edited by Londa Schiebinger, Oxford University Press, 2000, ISBN 9780198731917
- Has Feminism Changed Science?, Cambridge: Harvard University Press 2001, ISBN 9780674005440
- Foreign Translations: Japanese (Kosakusha Publishing Co., 2002); German (München: Beck Verlag, 2000); Portuguese (Editora da Universidade do Sagrado Coração, 2001); Korean (Dulnyouk Publishing Co., 2002). ISBN 0674005449
- The Mind Has No Sex? Women in the Origins of Modern Science, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1989, ISBN 9780674576230; Harvard University Press, 1991, ISBN 9780674576254
- Foreign Translations: Japanese (Tokyo: Kosakusha Publishing Co., 1992); German (Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta Verlag, 1993); Chinese (Taipei: Yuan-Liou Publishing); Portuguese (Lisbon: Pandora Ediçioes, 2001); and Greek (Athens: Katoptro, 2003).
- "Theories of Gender and Race", Feminist theory and the body: a reader, Editors Janet Price, Margrit Shildrick, Taylor & Francis, 1999, ISBN 9780415925662
Criticism
- "Changing Assumptions", American Scientist, September–October 2008
External links
- Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research
- "Londa Schiebinger", The Economist
- "Sex, Knowledge and Society", Australian Broadcasting Corporation
- "Londa Schiebinger talks Gender and Science", Stanford University Press