Laura Stark
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Postdoctoral Lecturer Areas of Interest: Science, Knowledge, and Medicine; Morality and Ethics; Culture; Historical and Ethnographic Methods |
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Laura Stark (Princeton 2006) is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Program in Science and Human Culture and in the Department of Sociology. Her work examines how experts in the medical and social sciences invoke research findings, professional experiences, and other warrants to justify their views about right and wrong. Stark is currently working on a book manuscript based on her dissertation, Morality in Science: How Research is Evaluated in the Age of Human Subjects Regulation. This project, which draws on extensive archival research and long-term observations of three Institutional Review Boards, was funded by the Charlotte W. Newcombe Foundation and the National Science Foundation. Stark’s future research will look at how practices of torture and interrogation have been distinguished from each other over the past century, and how such practices have been imagined to produce reliable knowledge in the form of national intelligence. Stark is organizing a workshop for May 29-30th, 2008 on Max Weber's classic essay, "Science as a Vocation." The workshop is titled "Re:Calling 'Science as a Vocation.' "
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1808 Chicago Ave. Room 101B
Evanston, Illinois 60208
Phone: (847) 467-0516
Email:laura-stark@northwestern.edu
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| Current Courses: | |
| Soc 376 Sec 22: Virtue and Vice: The Sociology of Morality | |
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| Soc 226 Sec 20: Sociological Analysis | |
| Soc 355-0: Sociology of Medicine |
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