Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Scholars Program
University of California, Berkeley/UCSF
School of Public Health
50 University Hall, MC 7360
Berkeley, CA 94720-7360
almeling (at) berkeley (dot) edu
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Rene Almeling is a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley/UCSF. She received a B.A. in Gender Studies and Religious Studies from Rice University in 1998 and a Ph.D. in Sociology from UCLA in 2008. Her research interests include gender, economics, and medicine, and she is currently working on a book manuscript titled "Selling Genes, Selling Gender: Egg Donation, Sperm Donation, and the Medical Market in Genetic Material." In it, she compares how these sexed reproductive cells, and the women and men who produce them, are culturally and economically valued, social processes that result in gendered regimes of bodily commodification. In her next project, she will study how gendered ideas about bodies shape the presentation of and response to genetic knowledge. In January 2010, she will join the Sociology Department at Yale University as an Assistant Professor.
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