Hannah Landecker

Hannah L. Landecker (born 1969)[1] 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.

Hannah Landecker
Born1969 (age 53–54)
Academic background
EducationUniversity of British Columbia (BSc)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD)
Academic work
DisciplineSociology
Anthropology
Sub-disciplineHistory of science
InstitutionsRice University
University of Texas Medical Branch
University of California, Los Angeles

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.[2] 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 is also worked on developing new methods and curricula for teaching the history and social study of biotechnology to undergraduates.[3] Recent work includes looking at ways in which antibiotic resistance has become a key marker of the Anthropocene.[4]

Publications
  • Culturing Life: How Cells Became Technologies; Harvard University Press (2007)
  • Cellular Features: Microcinematography and Early Film Theory, Critical Inquiry 31(4):903-937. (2005)
  • Living Differently in Time: Plasticity, Temporality, and Cellular Biotechnologies, Culture Machine 7 (2005)
  • 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
  1. "Hannah L. Landecker | People | The Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments". waywiser.rc.fas.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2022-10-18.
  2. "Hannah Landecker". Archived from the original on 2009-03-31. Retrieved 2008-10-09.
  3. "Institute for the Medical Humanities". Institute for the Medical Humanities. Archived from the original on 2007-02-13. Retrieved 2007-08-21.
  4. "IAS Thursdays: Hannah Landecker on Biofallibility | Institute for Advanced Study". Archived from the original on 2013-12-19. Retrieved 2014-02-05.
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