Sarah Franklin

For the daughter of Benjamin Franklin, see Sarah Franklin Bache.

Sarah Franklin
Born	November 9, 1960 Cambridge, Massachusetts
Residence	London, England
Nationality	American
Fields	Anthropology Cultural theory Gender theory Feminism
Institutions	London School of Economics Lancaster University University of Manchester
Alma mater	New York University Smith College Birmingham University University of Kent

Sarah Franklin (born 1960) is an American anthropologist who has substantially contributed to the fields of feminism, gender theory, stem cell research, reproductive and genetic medicine and their associated technologies. She has conducted fieldwork on IVF, cloning, embryology and stem cell research. Her work combines both ethnographic methods and kinship theory, with more recent approaches from science studies, gender and cultural studies. In 2001 she was appointed to a Personal Chair in the Anthropology of Science, the first of its kind in the UK, and a field she has helped to create. She is currently Professor of Social Studies of Biomedicine in the Department of Sociology at the London School of Economics. She held previous academic posts at the University of Manchester, Lancaster University, New York University, and the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Franklin has an MA in Women's Studies from the University of Kent (1984), an MA in Anthropology from New York University (1986) and a PhD from Birmingham University's Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies (1992). She is one of the first anthropologists to undertake ethnographic research on new reproductive technologies.

She has written and edited numerous books on reproductive and genetic technologies, as well as more than 150 articles, chapters, and reports. She has designed and led several major research projects addressing the social and cultural dimensions of new reproductive and genetic technologies with funding from the Wenner Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, The Wellcome Trust, the Leverhulme Trust, the European Commission, the Economic and Social Research Council (UK) and the Medical Research Council (UK), among other sources. In 2010 she was elected as a Fellow of the Society of Biology.

The post-modernist aspects of some of her work have been criticized.^[1]

References

1. ^ Sullivan, M.C. (1996) A Mathematician Reads Social Text, AMS Notices 43(10), 1127-1131.

Selected Publications

• Dolly Mixtures: the remaking of genealogy, Duke University Press, 2007.
• Born and Made: an ethnography of preimplantation genetic diagnosis, (co-authored with C. Roberts), Princeton University Press, 2006.
• Off-Centre: feminism and cultural studies, (with J. Stacey and C. Lury), Routledge, 2006.
• Global Nature, Global Culture, (co-authored with C. Lury and J. Stacey), Sage, 2000.
• Embodied Progress: a cultural account of assisted conception, Routledge, 1997.
• The Sociology of Gender, Edward Elgar, 1996.
• Technologies of Procreation: kinship in the age of assisted conception, (co-authored with J. Edwards, et al.), Manchester University Press, 1993.
• Relative Values: reconfiguring kinship studies, Duke 2001 (coedited with Susan McKinnon).
• Remaking Life and Death: toward an anthropology of the biosciences, School of American Research (co-edited with Margaret Lock)
• The Sociology of Gender, Edward Elgar, 1996

External links

• London School of Economics Staff Profile Sarah Franklin

Persondata
Name	Franklin, Sarah
Alternative names
Short description	American Anthropologist
Date of birth	9 November 1960
Place of birth	United States of America
Date of death
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