Areas of Interest

Science and technology studies, reproductive and genetic technologies, transnational comparative studies of reproduction, population, biodiversity and environment, feminist theory

Selected Publications

Making Parents: The Ontological Choreography of Reproductive Technology (MIT Press, 2005).

"Fertile Ground: Feminists Theorize Infertility," in eds., M. Inhorn, and F. van Balen, Interpreting Infertility: Childlessness, Gender, and New Reproductive Technologies In Global Perspective. (University of California Press, 2002).

"Strategic Naturalizing: Kinship in an Infertility Clinic," in eds. S. Franklin and S. McKinnon, New Directions in Kinship Study: A Core Concept Revisited (2002).

"When Elephants Stand for Competing Models of Nature," in A. Mol and J. Law eds., Complexity in Science, Technology, and Medicine (Duke University Press, 2001).

"Primate Suspect: Some Varieties of Science Studies," in eds. S. Strum and L. Fedigan, Close Encounters: Primates, Science and Scientists (Chicago University Press, 1999).

"Confessions of a Bioterrorist: subject position and the valuing of reproductions," in eds. S. Squier and A. Kaplan, Reproductive Technologies and Representation (Rutgers University Press, 1999).

"Producing Reproduction: Techniques of Normalization and Naturalization in an Infertility Clinic," in eds. S. Franklin and H. Ragone, Reproducing Reproduction: Kinship, Power, and Technological Innovation (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998) 66-101.

"Ontological Choreography: Agency for Women Patients in an Infertility Clinic," in eds. M. Berg and A. Mol, Differences in Medicine: Unraveling Practices, Techniques and Bodies (Duke University Press, 1998).