{"id":73,"date":"2018-10-22T20:21:20","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T00:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/lgbtqiataskforce\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=73"},"modified":"2018-10-24T13:26:50","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T17:26:50","slug":"karen-warkentin","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/lgbtqiataskforce\/profile\/karen-warkentin\/","title":{"rendered":"Karen Warkentin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"TextRun SCXW197991303\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" lang=\"EN-US\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW197991303\">Karen Warkentin is a<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><a class=\"Hyperlink SCXW197991303\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/biology\/people\/profiles\/karen-warkentin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"TextRun Underlined SCXW197991303\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" lang=\"EN-US\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW197991303\">Professor of Biology<\/span><\/span><\/a><span class=\"TextRun SCXW197991303\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" lang=\"EN-US\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW197991303\"><span>\u00a0<\/span>and<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><a class=\"Hyperlink SCXW197991303\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wgs\/people\/wgs-core-faculty\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"TextRun Underlined SCXW197991303\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" lang=\"EN-US\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW197991303\">Professor of Women\u2019s, Gender &amp; Sexuality Studies<\/span><\/span><\/a><span class=\"TextRun SCXW197991303\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" lang=\"EN-US\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW197991303\">. She did her MSc (1990) at Dalhousie University, PhD (1998) at the University of Texas at Austin, and post-doctoral research at the University of Kentucky and the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, where she is now a Research Associate. She joined the BU faculty in 2001. Her<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><a class=\"Hyperlink SCXW197991303\" href=\"http:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/warkentinlab\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"TextRun Underlined SCXW197991303\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" lang=\"EN-US\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW197991303\">research<\/span><\/span><\/a><span class=\"TextRun SCXW197991303\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" lang=\"EN-US\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW197991303\"><span>\u00a0<\/span>focuses on phenotypic plasticity of frog embryos (i.e., environmental effects on development and behavior) and she also considers sexual diversity in nature from a plasticity perspective; her<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><a class=\"Hyperlink SCXW197991303\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/provost\/awards-publications\/award-opportunities\/lecture\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"TextRun Underlined SCXW197991303\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" lang=\"EN-US\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW197991303\">2018 University Lecture<\/span><\/span><\/a><span class=\"TextRun SCXW197991303\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" lang=\"EN-US\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW197991303\"><span>\u00a0<\/span>addresses both themes. Prof. Warkentin came out in 1980 as an undergraduate at the University of Guelph, in Ontario, Canada, and identifies as queer and genderfluid (she\/her\/hers<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><span class=\"TextRun SCXW197991303\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" lang=\"EN-US\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW197991303\">or<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><span class=\"TextRun SCXW197991303\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" lang=\"EN-US\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW197991303\">they\/them\/their). She appreciates both how the working environment for LGBTQIA+ people at BU has improved since 2001 and the need for further improvements.<\/span><\/span><span class=\"EOP SCXW197991303\" data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/lgbtqiataskforce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/73"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/lgbtqiataskforce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/lgbtqiataskforce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/lgbtqiataskforce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/lgbtqiataskforce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/73\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":183,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/lgbtqiataskforce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/73\/revisions\/183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/lgbtqiataskforce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}