Dr. Charis Thompson is Associate Professor in the Departments of Rhetoric and Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She is Director of the Berkeley Science, Technology, and Society Center, and of the Designated Emphasis in Women, Gender, and Sexuality. She is also the Director of the Project on Stem Cells and Society at Berkeley’s Stem Cell Center. Thompson is the author of Making Parents: The Ontological Choreography of Reproductive Technologies (MIT Press 2005), which won the 2007 Rachel Carson Prize from the Society for the Social Study of Science, and of numerous articles on reproductive and stem cell technologies.
