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Barbara Herr Harthorn, Principal Investigator and Director of the
Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center: Center for Nanotechnology in
Society (CNS) at University of California at Santa Barbara, is also
Associate Professor of Women's Studies, and Co-Director of the Center
for Global Studies in the Institute for Social, Behavioral and Economic
Research. Her research examines the social production of health
inequality, and in particular looks at the intersections of gender,
ethnicity/race, and transnational migration in health and health risk
perception. Her current work examines technological risk perception
among diverse US and comparative UK populations. She was a member of the
Executive Committee of the National Science Foundation Center for
Spatially Integrated Social Science and leads an international network
on health risk perception and spatial analysis. She has conducted
research in East Africa, Polynesia, Melanesia, and urban and rural
California. She is author (with Laury Oaks) of Risk, Culture, and Health
Inequality: Shifting Perceptions of Danger and Blame (2003) and has
published in a variety of social science, medical care, and public health journals. She has a
doctorate in medical anthropology and transcultural psychiatry from UCLA
and a bachelor’s degree in anthropology from Bryn Mawr College; she also
completed postdoctoral research in social psychology at UCSB.
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