Joan Hideko Fujimura

Background

Joan Fujimura was born on September 15, 1951. She is the daughter of Kurio and Asae (Kaboyama) Fujimura.

Education

In 1986 Joan Fujimura received a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of California, Berkeley.

Career

From 1988 to 1993 Joan Fujimura was an assistant professor of anthropology at the Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In 1993 she was appointed an associate professor of anthropology at the Stanford University. Fujimura has studied research practices in cancer research, molecular genetics, bioinformatics, genomics, and new developments in epigenetics and systems biology. Through ethnographic research in these research arenas, she has developed theoretical concepts that include doable problems, standardization, bandwagons, theory-methods packages, socio-material analysis, awkward surpluses, future imaginaries, postgenomic futures, and genome geography. Across projects, Fujimura is interested in the issues that arise when epistemologies of science collide with social and political issues, as in her research on sex determination gene research, on race and genomics.

Joan Fujimura has been elected to a four-year term as President of the Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S), which will include two years as President, one year as President-Elect and an additional year as Past-President.

Achievements

• Joan Fujimura is best known as the author of "The Right Tools for the Job".

Works

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  • Crafting Science

    (During the late 1970s and 1980s, "cancer" underwent a tra...)

    1996
  • The Right Tools for the Job

    (This volume examines scientific practice through studies ...)

    1992

Connections

Joan Fujimura married Kjell Doksum.

Father:

Kurio Fujimura

Mother:

Asae Fujimura

Spouse:

Kjell Doksum

References

• Contemporary Authors
  1998