Joan Fujimura | |
Birth Name: | Joan Hideko Fujimura |
Fields: | Sociology |
Workplaces: | University of Wisconsin-Madison |
Education: | University of Washington University of California, Berkeley |
Thesis Title: | Bandwagons in Science: Doable Problems and Transportable Packages as Factors in the Development of the Molecular Genetic Bandwagon in Cancer Research |
Thesis Url: | https://www.proquest.com/docview/303443358 |
Thesis Year: | 1986 |
Doctoral Advisor: | Troy Duster |
Known For: | Sociology of science |
Awards: | Robert K. Merton Professional Book Award from the American Sociological Association (1998) |
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Joan Hideko Fujimura is an American sociologist and the Martindale-Bascom Professor Emerita of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is the president of the Society for the Social Studies of Science.[1] She was a fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study from 1999 to 2001 and of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University from 2014 to 2015.[2]