Jennifer A Winther
Ph.D. (expected 2009); M.A. Sociology, UCLA (2002); M.Ed. Hiroshima University (1997); B.A. International Relations/Japanese Language and Literature, University of Minnesota (1994)
Office: A 52 Haines Hall
Phone: 310-622-2357
Fax: 310-206-9838
E-mail:
jwinther@ucla.edu
Subfield
Sociology of Knowledge, Science and Technology; Sociology of Culture; Comparative/Historical Sociology; Modern Japan
Research Interests
My dissertation research on expertise analyzes the field of statistics in modern Japan, focusing on the processes and dynamics of institutionalization and the changing discourse of scientific authority.
Notes
I have served as instructor for two freshman seminars ("Making up People: quantification and classification in the modern world," and "The Technologies and Cultures of Prenatal Care and Birth), and as a teaching assistant for courses in the development of social theory, the development of social thought, biotechnology and society, and self and society.
My post doctoral research will explore sociological issues in women's health.
Publications
Winther, Jennifer. 2008. “National discourse in household enumeration: three moments in modern Japanese history” Social Science History, Vol. 32, No. 1, Spring, 19-46.
Winther, Jennifer 2005. “The Embodiment of Sound in Musical Cohesion” American Behavioral Scientist Vol. 48, No. 11, 1410-1421.
Advisors
William Roy (Sociology)
Rebecca Emigh (Sociology)
Theodore Porter (History)
Herman Ooms (History)
Conference Presentations
2008 "Scientific Expertise in Japan" American Sociological Association
2007 “Institutionalizing Expertise: Statisticians in Japan 1880-1920” American Sociological Association
2007 “Statisticians as Public Intellectuals in Postwar Japan” Pacific Sociological Association
2006 “The Organization, Technologies and Politics of Official Statistics in Modern Japan” American Sociological Association
2006 “The Embodiment of Sound in Musical Cohesion” Pacific Sociological Association
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