Professor Sheila Jasanoff

Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies at Harvard Kennedy School

Sheila Jasanoff
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Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies, Harvard Kennedy School
Member, CSaP Advisory Council

Professor Sheila Jasanoff is a pioneer in her field, she has authored more than 100 articles and chapters and is author or editor of a dozen books, including Controlling Chemicals, The Fifth Branch, Science at the Bar, and Designs on Nature. Her work explores the role of science and technology in the law, politics, and policy of modern democracies, with particular attention to the nature of public reason. She was founding chair of the Science & Technology Studies Department at Cornell University and has held numerous distinguished visiting appointments in the US, Europe, and Japan. Jasanoff served on the Board of Directors of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and as President of the Society for Social Studies of Science. Her grants and awards include a 2010 Guggenheim Fellowship and an Ehrenkreuz from the Government of Austria. She holds AB, JD, and PhD degrees from Harvard, and an honorary doctorate from the University of Twente.

https://www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty/sheila-jasanoff

Lucy Smith

Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs (Defra)

Harvard Kennedy School

Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies

  • 11 March 2022, 5:30pm

    Democracy and distrust after the pandemic

    The 2022 Dr Seng Tee Lee Lecture was delivered by Professor Shelia Jasanoff, Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies at Harvard Kennedy School.

  • In news articles

    Dr S T Lee Public Policy Lecture 2022:Democracy and distrust after the pandemic

    The University of Cambridge's 2022 Dr Seng Tee Lee Lecture was delivered by Sheila Jasanoff, Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies at Harvard Kennedy School in the U.S. Her talk at St John's College, Cambridge, concerned how the COVID-19 pandemic has revealed the nature of our current model of trust, the political nature of expert institutions, and state-level differences in public reasoning.

  • In news articles

    Testing times for evidence and expertise: what lies ahead for science and innovation?

    Will political events of 2016 provoke a fundamental rethink of the role of institutions at the intersection of science, innovation, expertise, politics and power?