Education

Ph.D. (2007) - Sociology and Rural Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
M.S. (2002) - Sociology and Rural Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
B.S. (1996) - Science, Technology, and Society, Vassar College.

Research Interests

Food, agriculture, biotechnology, and rural communities.
Environmental politics and history.
Social movements and participatory science.
Expertise and democracy.

Recent publications

Abby J. Kinchy (2006) “On the Borders of Post-War Ecology: Struggles over the Ecological Society of America’s Preservation Committee, 1917-1946,” Science as Culture 15 (1): 23-44.

Abby J. Kinchy (2007) Genes out of Place: Activists, Experts, and the Politics of Biotechnology, PhD Dissertation, Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Daniel Lee Kleinman and Abby J. Kinchy (2007) “Against the Neoliberal Steamroller? The Biosafety Protocol and the Social Regulation of Agricultural Biotechnologies,” Agriculture & Human Values 24: 195-206.

Abby J. Kinchy and Daniel Lee Kleinman (2008) “Against Free Markets, Against Science? Regulating the Socio-economic Effects of Biotechnology,” Rural Sociology 73(2): 147-179.

Abby J. Kinchy (2009) “African Americans in the Atomic Age: Post-War Perspectives on Science, Technology and the Bomb, 1945-1960,” Technology & Culture 50(2): 291-315.

Daniel Lee Kleinman, Abby J. Kinchy and Robyn Autry (2009) “Local variation or global convergence in agricultural biotechnology policy? A comparative analysis,” Science and Public Policy 36 (5)

Abby J. Kinchy, “Anti-GE Activism and Scientized Politics in the Case of ‘Contaminated’ Mexican Maize,” forthcoming in Agriculture and Human Values.


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