BU Sociology

Laurel Smith-Doerr is on leave 2007-9 as a Visiting Scientist and Program Director in Science, Technology and Society at the National Science Foundation.

BIO AND RESEARCH

See Laurel Smith- Doerr's homepage at: http://people.bu.edu/ldoerr/

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

2004. Women’s Work: Gender Equality vs. Hierarchy in the Life Sciences. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers.

2005. “Institutionalizing the Network Form: How Life Scientists Legitimate Work in the Biotechnology Industry.” Sociological Forum 20(2): 271-299.

2005. “Networks and Economic Life.” 2005. Pp. 379-402 in Handbook of Economic Sociology, Second Edition, edited by N.J. Smelser and R. Swedberg. Princeton, NJ: Russell Sage/Princeton University Press. With Walter W. Powell.

2005. “Gender and Commercial Science: Women’s Patenting in the Life Sciences.” Journal of Technology Transfer 30: 355-370. With Kjersten Bunker Whittington.

2006. “Stuck in the Middle: Doctoral Education Ranking and Career Outcomes for Life Scientists.” 2006. Bulletin of Science, Technology and Society 26 (3): 243-255.

2006. “Learning to Reflect or Deflect? U.S. Policies and Graduate Programs’ Ethics Training for Life Scientists.” Pp. 405-431 in The New Political Sociology of Science: Institutions, Networks, and Power, edited by S. Frickel and K. Moore. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press.

2007. “Organizational Contexts of Science: Boundaries and Relationships between University and Industry.”

2007. Chapter 28 in Handbook of Science and Technology Studies, edited by J. Wajcman, E. Hackett, O. Amsterdamska and M. Lynch. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. With Jennifer L. Croissant.

2008. “Decoupling Policy and Practice: How Life Scientists Respond to Ethics Education.” Minerva 46: 1-16.

2008. “Women Inventors in Context: Disparities in Patenting in Academia and Industry.” Gender & Society 22 (2): 194-218. With Kjersten Bunker Whittington.