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Sheila Jasanoff

Sheila Jasanoff

· Environmental Science and Public Policy Concentration

Harvard University · Environmental Science and Public Policy

Active 1981–2025

h-index72
Citations27.9k
Papers27028 last 5y
Funding$1.1M

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About

Sheila Jasanoff is the Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies at Harvard University, with a focus on the role of science and technology in the law, politics, and policy of modern democracies. Her research pays particular attention to environmental and biotechnology regulation in Europe and the United States, exploring how scientific knowledge influences legal and political decision-making. Her work examines the intersection of science, policy, and society, contributing to understanding the governance of technological and environmental issues within democratic frameworks.

Research topics

  • Sociology
  • Ecology
  • Computer Science
  • Engineering
  • Social Science
  • Epistemology
  • Political Science
  • Philosophy
  • Management
  • Economics

Selected publications

  • Technologies of Humility: Citizen Participation in Governing Science

    Routledge eBooks · 2020 · 137 citations

    1st authorCorresponding
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  • Humility in the Anthropocene

    Globalizations · 2021-02-09 · 61 citations

    article1st authorCorresponding

    The last 50 years have witnessed a set of changes in the scale of humankind’s ecological imagination toward ‘thinking globally’. Developments in earth and planetary sciences have elaborated a creation story that dethroned humans from a position of claimed supremacy to a status on a par with other systemic forces that have shaped the planet. So marked is the human imprint that it has earned its own name in the annals of geology, environmental history, and geopolitics: the anthropocene. The scient…

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  • Imagined worlds

    2020-05-28 · 46 citations

    book-chapterOpen access1st authorCorresponding

    This chapter analyses how the predictive politics of future-making fundamentally alters existing practices of constitutional democratic government by upsetting three of its foundational attributes: its materiality, its presentism, and its localism. The outcomes of contemporary political struggles are no longer conceived as immediate, tangible, and available for public evaluation and judgment based on outcomes. Instead, contemporary political contestations revolve around collective imaginations o…

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  • Constitutionalism at the Nexus of Life and Law

    Science Technology & Human Values · 2020-05-01 · 28 citations

    article

    This essay introduces a collection of articles gathered under the theme of “law, science, and constitutions of life.” Together, they explore how revolutions in notions of what biological life is are eliciting correspondingly revolutionary imaginations of how life should be governed. The central theoretical contribution of the collection is to further elaborate the concept of bioconstitutionalism, which draws attention to especially consequential forms of coproduction at the law–life nexus. This…

    PublisherDOI

  • Was “science” on the ballot?

    Science · 2021-02-25 · 22 citations

    articleSenior author

    Labeling dissent as “anti-science” is bad social science and bad politics

    PublisherDOI

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Education

  • Ph.D., Environmental Science and Public Policy

    Harvard University

    1980

  • M.A., Political Science

    University of California, Berkeley

    1975

  • B.A., Political Science

    University of California, Berkeley

    1972

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