Hannah Landecker
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000
Office: 268 HAINES HALL
Phone: 51517
Fax:
310-206-9838
E-mail:
landecker@soc.ucla.edu
Mailing Address:
264 Haines Hall - Box 951551
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1551
Subfield
Science and technology studies, history of twentieth century life science.
Research Interests
My work focuses on the social and historical study of biotechnology and life science, from 1900 to now. I am interested in the intersections of biology and technology, with a particular focus on cells, and the in vitro conditions of life in research settings.
Selected Publications
Book:
Culturing Life: How Cells Became Technologies, Harvard University Press, 2007
Selected Articles:
“Living Differently in Time: Plasticity, Temporality and Cellular Biotechnologies,” in Technologized Images, Technologized Bodies: Anthropological Approaches to a New Politics of Vision, Jeanette Edwards, Penny Harvey and Peter Wade, eds. New York: Berghahn Books, 2008. in press.
“Microcinematography and the History of Science and Film,” Isis, 97:121-132, 2006.
“Cellular Features: Microcinematography and Early Film Theory,” Critical Inquiry 31:903-937, 2005.
“A Theory of Animation: Cells, L-Systems, and Film,” (with Christopher Kelty), Grey Room, 17:30-63, 2004.
“The Lewis Films: Tissue Culture and ‘Living Anatomy’, 1919-1940,” 117-144 in Centennial History of the Carnegie Institute Department of Embryology, Jane Maienschein, Marie Glitz and Garland Allan (eds.), Cambridge University Press, 2004.
“Building ‘A New Type of Body in Which to Grow a Cell’: The Origins of Tissue Culture,” 151-174 in Creating a Tradition of Biomedical Research: Contributions to the History of The Rockefeller University, Darwin Stapleton (ed.), New York: Rockefeller University Press, 2004.
“On Beginning and Ending with Apoptosis: Cell Death and Biomedicine,” in Remaking Life and Death: Towards an Anthropology of the Life Sciences, edited by Sarah Franklin and Margaret Lock, School of American Research Press, 2003.
“New Times for Biology: Nerve Cultures and the Advent of Cellular Life in Vitro,” Studies in the History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 33:667-694, 2002.
“Immortality, In Vitro: A History of the HeLa Cell Line,” in Biotechnology and Culture: Bodies, Anxieties, Ethics, edited by Paul Brodwin, Theories of Contemporary Culture series, Indiana University Press, 2000.
“Between Beneficence and Chattel: The Human Biological in Law and Science,” Science in Context 12(1): 203-225, 1999. Reprinted in Law and Science, Volume II: Epistemological, Evidentiary, and Relational Engagements, International Library of Essays in Law and Society, Susan Silbey, ed., Ashgate Publishing, 2008, pp. 181-204.
Awards
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 2005.
Rice University Graduate Student Teaching and Mentoring Award, 2005.
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