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Sarah Jansen

Associate Professor of the History of Science

Sarah JansenSarah Jansen is Associate Professor of History of Science at Harvard University. Her work focuses on the history of biopolitics, the history of the life sciences, environmental history, the history of formalization, and the history of scientific objects. Jansen earned a B.Sc. in Biology from McGill University, worked as a policy adviser on biotechnologies, environmental technologies, and science, technology, and gender at the German Federal Parliament before earning a Dr. phil. in Modern History from the Technische Universität Braunschweig. Jansen has been the recipient of a Davis fellowship at Princeton University, and of a postdoctoral fellowship at the Max-Planck-Institute for the History of Science in Berlin; she has been a visiting scholar at the University of Cambridge and a research scholar at the MPI in Berlin. She is the author of Naturwissenschaftlerinnen und Ingenieurinnen: von der Forderung nach Gleichstellung zur feministischen Forschung (1991), and, in the history of science, of 'Schädlinge': Geschichte eines wissenschaftlichen und politischen Konstrukts, 1840-1920 (in German by Campus, 2003; in English by The University of Chicago Press, 2006). She is currently completing a book on the history of the 'population' as an object of the life sciences, the sciences of the state, and biopolitics.

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