Charis Thompson, Lady Campbell is Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics (se

. Prior to that she was a professor of Gender and Women's Studies in the Department of Gender and Women's Studies at the

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. She was also associate director, and the founding Director, of the Science, Technology, and Society Center at UC Berkeley. She is the author of ''Making Parents: The Ontological Choreography of Reproductive Technologies'' (MIT Press 2005) WorldCat identities
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. From that book, she is known for the concept of "ontological choreography".

Career

She has written on stem cell research, biodiversity conservation, and population. She is the author of ''Good Science: the Ethical Choreography of Stem Cell Research'' (MIT Press 2013). Thompson has degrees from the Science Studies program

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(Ph.D.) and

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(BA Hons). She was a National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellow at

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's Science, Technology, & Society Department, and Assistant Professor at the

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and

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. She has been a visitor at the Institute for Research on Women and Gender at the

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and at the Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation, École Supérieure des Mines de Paris.

Personal life

She is married to Sir Philip Campbell, editor-in-chief of ''Springer Nature''. She is a recipient of the Distinguished Teaching Award from the UC Berkeley Social Science Division. In 2017, she was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU).NTNU's list of honorary doctors
ntnu.edu. Accessed 9 December 2022.

References

*Donna Haraway, ''Companion Species Manifesto'' (Prickly Paradigm Press, 2003), p. 8. (https://web.archive.org/web/20110424091337/http://www.spurse.org/wiki/images/1/14/Haraway%2C_Companion_Species_Manifesto.pdf) *Adele Clarke and Janet Shim, “Medicalization and Biomedicalization Revisited,” in Pescosolido et al. eds. ''Handbook of the Sociology of Health, Illness, and Healing'' (Springer 2010), p. 183

External links

*Charis Thompson, professor, Dept of Gender and Women's Studies, UC Berkeley (https://web.archive.org/web/20121125025905/http://womensstudies.berkeley.edu/about/profile/faculty/34) *Charis Thompson, associate director, Science, Technology, and Society Center, UC Berkeley (http://cstms.berkeley.edu/people/charis-thompson/) {{DEFAULTSORT:Thompson, Charis Women's studies academics University of California, Berkeley faculty Living people University of Michigan faculty Year of birth missing (living people) Wives of knights