School of Social and Political Science

Profile

I completed my PhD at the University of California, San Diego, in Sociology and Science Studies. I am broadly interested in the ways that scientific expertise is differentiated from other forms of knowledge, and how scientific and technological innovations interact with other forms of social life. I am more particularly interested in the development, introduction, and circulation of new medical and healthcare technologies, particularly those utilizing big data and genomics. My doctoral research concerned the history of genetic epidemiology and its contemporary translations in personalized or precision health research, using case studies of the MyCode initiative at Geisinger Health in Pennsylvania, and the US National Institutes of Health’s All of Us Research Program.