Hannah L. Landecker (born 1969) is an Australian author and academic working as a professor of sociology at the

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and the UCLA Institute for Society and Genetics.

Education

Landecker earned a Bachelor of Science degree from the

University of British Columbia The University of British Columbia (UBC) is a public research university with campuses near Vancouver and in Kelowna, British Columbia. Established in 1908, it is British Columbia's oldest university. The university ranks among the top thre ...

and a PhD from the

Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the ...

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 ''In vitro'' (meaning in glass, or ''in the glass'') studies are performed with microorganisms, cells, or biological molecules outside their normal biological context. Colloquially called " test-tube experiments", these studies in biology ...

conditions of life in research settings. Landecker was assistant professor of anthropology at

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through 2007. She was a visiting scholar at

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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. Recent work includes looking at ways in which antibiotic resistance has become a key marker of the Anthropocene.

Publications

* Culturing Life: How Cells Became Technologies;

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(2007

https://www.newscientist.com/channel/life/mg19325922.700-culturing-life-how-cells-became-technologies-by-hannah-landecker.html] * Cellular Features: Microcinematography and Early Film Theory, Critical Inquiry 31(4):903-937. (200

* 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

External links

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Landecker, Hannah Living people University of British Columbia alumni Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni Rice University faculty University of California, Los Angeles faculty American sociologists American women sociologists American women social scientists Sociologists of science Medical sociologists Historians of science 21st-century American women writers 1969 births 21st-century American women academics