Workshop Organizers
Kim TallBear: Kimberly TallBear link to is Assistant Professor of Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management (ESPM) , Division of Society and Environment at the University of California, Berkeley. She is affiliated with UC Berkeley's Science, Technology and Society Center (STSC). She earned her Ph.D. in History of Consciousness from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 2005. She also earned a Master's in City Planning (environmental policy & planning) from the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1994. She was a University of California President's Postdoctoral Fellow to in ESPM and Gender and Women's Studies to in 2007-08. TallBear was Assistant Professor in American Indian Studies at Arizona State University, Tempe from 2006 to 2007.
TallBear's research and teaching cross the fields of Science and Technology Studies (STS), feminist science studies, anthropology of science, cultural studies, and Native American Studies (NAS). She is especially interested in the cultures and politics of scientific knowledge production and their impacts on indigenous peoples and others who historically suffer uneven power relations in scientific research. She focuses on genomic, forensic, and environmental science and technology as they intersect with U.S. American conceptions of race, nation, and indigeneity. She examines the narratives, discourses, and strategies that peoples employ as they govern scientific knowledge production via regulation, resistance, and the integration of community development and capacity building into research.
TallBear has authored or co-authored articles on genetics and race published in The Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics; Science; and the Wicazo Sa Review. She has a chapter in the forthcoming volume Revisiting Race in a Genomic Age (Rutgers University Press, 2008). She is at work on a book, Native American DNA: Origins, Ethics, and Governance. She also writes opinion pieces on Native American political issues for Indian Country Today and other popular journals.
Jenny Reardon: Jenny Reardon is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Faculty Affiliate in the Center for Biomolecular Science and Engineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She received her Ph.D. in Science and Technology Studies from Cornell University in August 2002. From Fall 1999-Spring 2002, she was a Fellow in Science, Technology and Public Policy at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. She taught in the Division of Biology and Medicine at Brown University from 2002-2004, and was a fellow at the Institute of Genome Sciences and Policy and a research assistant professor Women's Studies at Duke University from 2004-2005.
Her book, Race to the Finish: Identity and Governance in an Age of Genomics, was published with Princeton University Press in 2005.
Rebecca Tsosie: Professor Tsosie has served as Executive Director of the top-ranked Indian Legal Program in the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University since 1996. Professor Tsosie has written and published widely on doctrinal and theoretical issues related to tribal sovereignty, environmental policy, and cultural rights. Professor Tsosie is the author of many prominent articles dealing with cultural resources and cultural pluralism. She has used this work as a foundation for her newest research, which deals with Native rights to genetic resources. Professor Tsosie, who is of Yaqui descent, has also worked extensively with tribal governments and organizations. She serves as a Supreme Court Justice for the Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation. Professor Tsosie speaks at several national conferences each year on topics related to tribal sovereignty, self-determination, and tribal rights to environmental and cultural resources. Professor Tsosie was appointed as a Willard H. Pedrick Distinguished Research Scholar in 2005. Prior to this, she held the title of Lincoln Professor of Native American Law and Ethics. She is a Faculty Fellow of the Center for the Study of Law, Science, & Technology and an Affiliate Professor for the American Indian Studies Program. She joined the faculty of the College of Law in 1993 and teaches in the areas of Indian law, Property, Bioethics, and Critical Race Theory. She is the co-author with Robert Clinton and Carole Goldberg of a federal Indian law casebook entitled American Indian Law: Native Nations and the Federal System. Tsosie was awarded a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship and received the American Bar Association's "2002 Spirit of Excellence Award." She is the 2006 recipient of the "Judge Learned Hand Award" for Public Service.