Our Science, Ourselves: How Gender, Race, and Social Movements Shaped the Study of Science
October 25 @ 1:00 pm – 2:15 pm
Anyone from the UNCG community is invited to join this seminar and Q&A with author Christa Kuljian. Kuljian is the author of “Our Science, Ourselves: How Gender, Race, and Social Movements Shaped the Study of Science,” which tells the origin story of feminist science studies. The book focuses on the life histories of six trailblazing figures: Ruth Hubbard, Rita Arditti, Evelyn Fox Keller, Evelynn Hammonds, Anne Fausto-Sterling, and Banu Subramaniam.
Read more about the book here.
About the Author: Christa Kuljian grew up in the Boston area, and has lived in Johannesburg, South Africa for the past thirty years. She is a science writer and the author of Sanctuary and Darwin’s Hunch: Science, Race and the Search for Human Origins, which was short listed for the Sunday Times Alan Paton Award for Non-Fiction. Currently a Research Associate at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WiSER) at Wits University, she is also a fellow with the Consortium on the History of Science, Medicine and Technology (CHSMT) in Philadelphia.