Sheila Jasanoff

Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies
Kennedy School
Office Address
Littauer-354
Mailing Address
John F. Kennedy School of Government
Mailbox 17
79 JFK Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Contact
Phone: 617-495-7902
Fax: 617-496-5960
Email: sheila_jasanoff@harvard.edu
Assistant
Lauren Schiff (617-495-5636)
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Profile

Sheila Jasanoff is Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. She has held academic positions at Cornell, Yale, Oxford, and Kyoto. At Cornell, she founded and chaired the Department of Science and Technology Studies. She has also been a Leverhulme Visiting Professor at Cambridge, Fellow at the Berlin Institute for Advanced Study, and Resident Scholar at the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio study center. Her research concerns the role of science and technology in the law, politics, and public policy of modern democracies, with a particular focus on the challenges of globalization. She has written and lectured widely on problems of environmental regulation, risk management, and biotechnology in the United States, Europe, and India. Her books include Controlling Chemicals (1985), The Fifth Branch (1990), Science at the Bar (1995), and Designs on Nature (2005). Jasanoff has served on the Board of Directors of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and as President of the Society for Social Studies of Science.

Courses

Spring

  • STP-321 Bioethics, Law, and the Life Sciences

Fall

  • STP-291 Science, Power and Politics I
  • STP-292 Science, Power, and Politics II

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Research

Research for a complete list of faculty citations from 2001 - present, please visit the Harvard Kennedy School Research Report Online.

Selected Publication Citations:

  • Academic Journals
    • Jasanoff, Sheila. "Representation and Re-Presentation in Litigation Science." Environmental Health Perspectives 116.1 (January 2008): 123-129.
    • Jasanoff, Sheila. "Technologies of Humility." Nature 450.7166 (November 1, 2007): 33.
    • Jasanoff, Sheila. "Changing Expectations." British Association for the Advancement of Science (the-ba.net) (September 2007).
    • Jasanoff, Sheila. "Bhopal's Trials of Knowledge and Ignorance." ISIS: Journal of the History of Science in Society 98.2 (June 2007): 344-350.
  • Book Chapters
    • Jasanoff, Sheila. "Making Order: Law and Science in Action." The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies, Third Edition. Ed. Edward J. Hackett, Olga Amsterdamska, Michael Lynch, and Judy Wajcman. MIT Press, 2007, 761-786.