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Feminist Studies Dept.
UC Santa Cruz
Humanities 1, Room 315
1156 High Street
Santa Cruz, CA 95064
Phone: 831.459.4324
Email: fmst@ucsc.edu

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Karen Barad
Professor, Feminist Studies, History of Consciousness, and Philosophy
Ph.D., Theoretical Particle Physics, SUNY - Stony Brook

Office: Humanities 1, Room 330
Phone: 831-459-3101
Email: kbarad@ucsc.edu

 

 

Announcing the publication of

 

Meeting The Unvierse Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning, Duke University Press, 2007.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Selected Courses Taught

FMST 80K: Feminism and Science
FMST 194D: Feminist Science Studies
FMST 214: Topics in Feminist Science Studies

Research Interests

Feminist theory, physics, twentieth-century continental philosophy, epistemology, ontology, philosophy of physics, cultural studies of science, feminist science studies

Selected Publications

Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, forthcoming March 2007.

"Posthumanist Performativity: Toward an Understanding of How Matter Comes to Matter," in Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, vol. 28, no. 3, Spring 2003.

"Re(con)figuring Space, Time, and Matter," in Feminist Locations: Global and Local, Theory and Practice, edited by Marianne DeKoven. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2001.

"Performing Culture / Performing Nature: Using the Piezoelectric Crystal of Ultrasound Technologies as a Transducer Between Science Studies and Queer Theories," in Digital Anatomies, edited by Christina Lammar, Vienna: Turia & Kant, 2001.

"Scientific Literacy -> Agential Literacy = (Learning + Doing) Science Responsibly," in Feminist Science Studies: A New Generation, edited by Maralee Mayberry, Banu Subramaniam, and Lisa Weasel. NY: Routledge Press. (Abridged version of article published in Doing Culture + Science), 2001.

"Reconceiving Scientific Literacy as Agential Literacy, or Learning How to Intra-act Responsibly Within the World," in Doing Culture + Science, edited by Roddy Reid and Sharon Traweek, NY: Routledge Press, 2000.

"Agential Realism: Feminist Interventions in Understanding Scientific Practices," in The Science Studies Reader, edited by Mario Biagioli, NY: Routledge Press, 1998.

"Getting Real: Technoscientific Practices and the Materialization of Reality," in differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies, vol. 10, no. 2, Summer 1998.

"Meeting the Universe Halfway: Realism and Social Constructivism Without Contradiction," in Feminism, Science, and the Philosophy of Science, ed. Lynn Hankinson Nelson and Jack Nelson, Dordecht, Holland: Kluwer Press, 1996.