Wednesday, November 19
12PM-1PM
190 Rockefeller Hall
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Jamie Budnick is a sociologist whose work focuses on gender, sexuality, and feminist science studies.
She is currently an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Cornell University. Prior to this, she was an NICHD Postdoctoral Fellow at the Population Studies Center within the University of Michigan’s Institute for Social Research. She earned her PhD in Sociology from the University of Michigan in 2020, along with Graduate Certificates in Science, Technology, and Society (STS) in 2016, and in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) Studies in 2014.
Her research examines how sexuality knowledge is socially constructed, particularly through demographic data and population measurement. She is currently working on a book titled The New Gay Science: Tracing the Social Lives of Sexuality Statistics from Diagnosis to Demographic.
Her broader work also engages with topics such as reproductive health, intimate partner violence, survey methodology, and sexual identity. Her peer-reviewed research has appeared in American Sociological Review, Contexts, Demography, Gender & Society, and Sexualities.
At Cornell, she is working on several new projects, including a content analysis of news media discourse on the young people who say they won't have kids because of climate change, and qualitative interview studies about reproductive decision-making, and the concept of "matrescence" in the perinatal and postpartum life stages.
Learn more about Jamie’s research by visiting her website.
