Barad, Karen /

Karen Barad (b. 1956) is a professor of feminist studies, philosophy, and history of consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and codirector of the Science & Justice Graduate Training Program, funded by the National Science Foundation. As a feminist-physicist-philosopher, her i...

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Main Authors: Fairchild, Nikki, Taylor, Carol, active 2020 (Author)
Other Authors: Atkinson, Paul, 1947- (Editor), Delamont, Sara, 1947- (Editor), Cernat, Alexandru (Editor), Sakshaug, Joseph W. (Editor), Williams, Richard A., active 2020 (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : SAGE Publications Ltd., 2020.
Series:Science and technology studies (SAGE).
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Summary:Karen Barad (b. 1956) is a professor of feminist studies, philosophy, and history of consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and codirector of the Science & Justice Graduate Training Program, funded by the National Science Foundation. As a feminist-physicist-philosopher, her influence in the fields of new materialism, new material feminism, science studies, queer studies, and posthumanism has been profound. Barad's PhD in theoretical particle physics was awarded by the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1984 with her thesis titled, "Fermions in Lattice Gauge Theories." Her work has received funding from the National Science Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Hughes Foundation, the Irvine Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. In 2016, she was awarded an ...
Physical Description:1 online resource.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781529746761
1529746760
9781526421036
1526421038