“I want a society in which we don’t throw things and people away with quite the abandon we do, especially people."
Sheila Jasanoff is one of the most influential scholars in Science and Technology Studies, dismantling the myth that science and technology operate above politics and values. As Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies at Harvard Kennedy School, she has spent decades showing that every scientific advance is entwined with human choices, cultural assumptions, and political power.
In landmark works such as The Ethics of Invention, Designs on Nature, and Can Science Make Sense of Life?, Jasanoff introduced the concept of “co-production” to explain how knowledge and social order evolve together. From biotechnology to climate governance, her research insists that innovation must be democratically steered, not left to the market or the lab alone.
“One of the most important thinkers we have on the relationship between science, technology, and democracy.” — American Scientist
