Jennifer L Croissant

Interests

Research

Technology and Society, Science and Social Theory, Science Studies, Science Fiction Studies, Sports and Society, Science and Organizations, Agnotology.

Teaching

Technology and Society, Science and Social Theory, Science Studies, Science Fiction Studies, Sports and Society

Courses

Scholarly Contributions

Books

• Croissant, J. L., & Volti, R. (2023). Society and Technological Change, 9th Edition. Long Grove, Illinois: Waveland Press.
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  Copyediting was completed in Fall 2023, with first run at indexing and page proofs in December/January.  To be in print in Spring 2024.Rudi Volti and Jennifer L. CroissantSociety and Technological Change, Ninth EditionISBN 978-1-4786-5104-8available January 2024
• Croissant, J. L., Restivo, S., & Bauchspies, W. K. (2014). Powerpoint, Communication, and the Knowledge SOciety. Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews: Sage.
• Croissant, J. L., Restivo, S. P., & Bauchspies, W. K. (2006). Science, Technology, and Society: A Sociological Approach. Malden, MA/Oxford, UK: Blackwell.
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  Also reprinted in Turkish: https://www.idefix.com/Kitap/Bilim-Teknoloji-ve-Toplum-Sosyolojik-Bir-Yaklasim/Arastirma-Tarih/Sosyoloji/urunno=0001815655001?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIhu6DtOXS5QIVGzvgCh2O4gBpEAEYASABEgJ5xPD_BwE
• Croissant, J. L., & Restivo, S. (2001). Degrees of compromise : industrial interests and academic values. State University of New York Press.

Chapters

• Croissant, J. L. (2022). Science and Instrumentation. In The Routledge History of American Science. Routledge.
• Croissant, J. L., Sacco, T., Smith-Doerr, L., & Vardi, I. (2019).

  3. Epistemic Cultures of Collaboration: Coherence and Ambiguity in Interdisciplinarity

  . In Investigating Interdisciplinary Collaboration: Theory and Practice Across Disciplines(pp 65-83). doi:10.36019/9780813585918-006
• Croissant, J. L. (2018). Agnotology: Ignorance and Absence, or Towards a Sociology of Things that Aren’t There. In Geographies of the University (Knowledge and Space, Vol 12)(pp TBA). Springer.
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  revised reprint of 2014 publication
• Smith-Doerr, L., & Croissant, J. L. (2016). CHAPTER 3. Epistemic Cultures of Collaboration: Coherence and Ambiguity in Interdisciplinarity. In Investigating Interdisciplinary Collaboration. Rutgers.
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  CHAPTER 3. Epistemic Cultures of Collaboration: Coherence and Ambiguity in InterdisciplinarityLaurel Smith-Doerr (Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Massachusetts Amherst, US)Jennifer Croissant (Associate Professor, Department of Gender and Women’s Studies, University of Arizona, US)Itai Vardi (Lecturer, Department of Sociology, Boston University, US)Timothy Sacco (Graduate Student, Department of Sociology, University of Massachusetts Amherst, US)
• Smith-doerr, L., Croissant, J. L., Vardi, I., & Sacco, T. (2016). Epistemic cultures of collaboration: Coherence and ambiguity in interdisciplinarity. In Investigating Interdisciplinary Collaboration. Rutgers University Press.
• Croissant, J. L. (2015). Science, knowledge, and technology. In Handbook of Sociology and Human Rights. Taylor and Francis. doi:10.4324/9781315634227
• Croissant, J. L. (2012). Science, Knowledge, and Technology.
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  ;Your Role: Primary Author;Full Citation: Chapter 19: “Science, Knowledge, and Technology”, The Handbook of Sociology and Human Rights. Eds. David L. Brunsma, Keri Iyall Smith, Brian Gran, 2012, Boulder: Paradigm Publishers.;
• Croissant, J. L., & Restivo, S. (2011). Science Studies. Blackwell.
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  ;Your Role: Co-Author;Full Citation: RESTIVO, SAL and JENNIFER CROISSANT. "Science Studies." The Encyclopedia of Literary and Cultural Theory. Ryan, Michael (ed). Blackwell Publishing, 2011. Blackwell Reference Online. 16 February 2011 ;Other collaborative: Yes;Specify other collaborative: Collaboration with Sal Restivo, RPI;
• Croissant, J. L., & Priddy, A. (2008). Designer Vaginas. In The Body in Medical Culture. SUNY.
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  E. Klaver, Ed. pp. 173-191.The Body in Medical CultureBook is being advertised on amazon so I think I'll skip uploading the acceptance letter.;Your Role: Second Author;Collaborative with graduate student: Yes;
• Croissant, J. L., & Priddy, A. (2009). Designer Vaginas. SUNY.
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  ;Your Role: Second Author.;Full Citation: E. Klaver, Ed. pp. 173-191.The Body in Medical CultureAlbany, NY: SUNY Press.;Collaborative with graduate student: Yes;
• Croissant, J. L., & Smith-Doerr, L. (2007). Organizational Contexts of Science: Boundaries and Relationships between University and Industry. MIT Press.
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  Handbook Chapter.;Your Role: First author.;Full Citation: Organizational Contexts of Science: Boundaries and Relationships between University and Industry, with Laurel Smith-Doerr. Handbook of Science and Technology Studies (pp. 691-719), Hackett, et al., 2007, MIT Press.;Other collaborative: Yes;Specify other collaborative: L. Smith-Doerr is at another institution.;

Journals/Publications

• Croissant, J. L. (2023). Time and Interdisciplinarity. https://catalystjournal.org/index.php/catalyst.
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  https://estsjournal.org/index.php/ests - review process to start Spring 2022, expected publication 2023.
• Croissant, J. L. (2014). Doing Gender and Responsibility: Scientists and Engineers Talk About Their Work. Journal of Women & Minorities in Science and Engineering.
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  ;Other collaborative: Yes;Please specify if you select "Other collaborative" : with Co-PI Laurel Smith-Doerr;Full Citation: Submitted Journal of Women & Minorities in Science and EngineeirngStatus: Submitted But Not Yet Accepted;
• Vardi, I., Smith-doerr, L., & Croissant, J. L. (2016). Doing Gender and Responsibility: Scientists and Engineers Talk About Their Work. Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering, 22(1), 49-68. doi:10.1615/jwomenminorscieneng.2016011513
• Croissant, J. L. (2015). Routine, Scale, and Inequality Introduction to the Special Issue on Ethics, Organizations, and Science. Science, Technology, & Human Values, 40(2), 167-175. doi:10.1177/0162243914567232
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  This special issue of Science, Technology, & Human Values contains articles concerned with ethics in and around scientific practice. These articles ask how organizational routines both produce and ...
• Croissant, J. L. (2014). Agnotology. Social Epistemology, 8(1), 4-25.
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• Croissant, J. L. (2014). Agnotology: Ignorance and Absence or Towards a Sociology of Things That Aren't There. SOCIAL EPISTEMOLOGY, 28(1), 4-25.
• Croissant, J. L. (2014). PowerPoint, Communication, and the Knowledge Society. Contemporary Sociology, 43(3), 383-385. doi:10.1177/0094306114531284cc
• Croissant, J. L. (2015). Introduction: Special Issue on Ethics and Science. Science, Technology, & Human Values.
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  Organized special issue.
• Croissant, J. L., & Smith-Doerr, L. (2011). A FEMINIST APPROACH TO UNIVERSITY- INDUSTRY RELATIONS: INTEGRATING THEORIES OF GENDER, KNOWLEDGE, AND CAPITAL. Journal of Women & Minorities in Science & Engineering.
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  A FEMINIST APPROACH TO UNIVERSITY- INDUSTRY RELATIONS: INTEGRATING THEORIES OF GENDER, KNOWLEDGE, AND CAPITAL (JWMSE 17(3):251-269 (2011));Your Role: Co-Author;Other collaborative: Yes;Specify other collaborative: Boston University Sociology;
• Croissant, J. L., & Restivo, S. (2008). Social Constructionism in Science and Technology Studies. Guilford.
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  ;Your Role: Co-Author;Full Citation: Restivo, Sal P., and Jennifer L. Croissant (2008). Social Constructionism in Science and Technology Studies, pp. 213-230. Guilford Publications, New York, 2008. James A. Holstein and Jaber F. Gubrium, eds.;Other collaborative: Yes;Specify other collaborative: colleague at another institution;
• Croissant, J. L., & Schmit, E. (2007). Misplaced Focus: Assumptions about Sex Hormones and ACL Injury in Female Athletes.
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  ;Your Role: Second Author;Full Citation: “Misplaced Focus: Assumptions about Sex Hormones and ACL Injury in Female Athletes,” co-authored with Emily Schmit, Journal of Interdisciplinary Feminist Thought. 2(1): Spring 2007: 15-28.;Collaborative with graduate student: Yes;
• Croissant, J. L. (2006). The New Sexual Technobody. Sexualties.
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  ;Full Citation: “The New Sexual Technobody: Landscape and Technique in the Hyper-real world.” in A. Potts and L. Tiefer, eds. special edition of Sexualities. July 2006 9(3):333-344.;
• Croissant, J. L. (2003). Studying Those Who Study Us: An Anthropologist in the World of Artificial Intelligence.. American Anthropologist, 105(2), 412-413. doi:10.1525/aa.2003.105.2.412
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  Studying Those Who Study Us: An Anthropologist in the World of Artificial Intelligence. Diana E. Forsythe. ed., with an introduction by David J. Hess. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001. 240 pp.
• Croissant, J. L. (2003). Theory, Narrative, and Discipline at the Intersections of Science and Technology Studies and History. Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society, 23(6), 465-472. doi:10.1177/0270467603259870
• Croissant, J. L. (2002). Silicon Valley Light. Agricultural History, 27(2), 207-208. doi:10.1525/ahu.2002.27.2.207
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  June Anne English-Lueck. Cultures@SiliconValley. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2002. viii. 202 pp.
• Croissant, J. L. (2001). Doing Science + Culture: How Cultural and Interdisciplinary Studies are Changing the Way We Look at Science and Medicine. Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 15(4), 558-559. doi:10.1525/maq.2001.15.4.558
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  Doing Science. Culture: How Cultural and Interdisciplinary Studies are Changing the Way We Look at Science and Medicine. Roddy Reid and Sharon Traweek. eds. New York/London: Routledge, 2000. viii. 339 pp.
• Croissant, J. L. (2000). Critical Legal Theory and Critical Science Studies. Cultural Dynamics, 12(2), 223-236. doi:10.1177/092137400001200206
• Ogden, K. L., Ogden, G. E., & Croissant, J. L. (2000). Teamed Internships in Environmental Engineering and Technology: A Project Report. Journal of Engineering Education, 89(2), 111-114. doi:10.1002/j.2168-9830.2000.tb00502.x
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  This paper is a summary report of the “Teamed Internships Program” (TIP), an Advanced Technological Education (ATE) grant through the National Science Foundation (NSF). This three-year project created internships encompassing regional industries, federal research facilities, and two- and four-year educational institutions. The project cultivated teamwork and communication skills for environmental technician and engineering students, developed instructional materials, and provided valuable contacts with industry. To foster faculty and teacher enhancement and student interest in environmental science and technology, insights from the program were incorporated into instructional materials and educational modules for dissemination to local secondary schools.
• Croissant, J. L. (1999). The View from The Basement: The Ethics and Politics of Teaching Engineers While Studying Them. Anthropology of Work Review, 20(1), 22-27. doi:10.1525/awr.1999.20.1.22
• Croissant, J. L., Hackett, E. J., & Schneider, B. (1992).

  Industry, academe, and the values of undergraduate engineers

  . Research in Higher Education. doi:10.1007/bf00992263

Proceedings Publications

• Croissant, J. L., & Restivo, S. (2010). Science Studies.
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  ;Your Role: co-author;Full Citation: Encyclopedia of Literary and Cultural Theory, Wiley-Blackwell (2011). Co-authored chapter with Sal Restivo on Science Studies, pp. 1266-1274. Michael Ryan, Gregory Castle, Robert Eaglestone, M. Keith Booker, eds. ;Other collaborative: Yes;Specify other collaborative: at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute;

Presentations

• Croissant, J. L. (2023). Growing Convergence Research: Articulating the Specificity of a Hybrid Experimental Platform”. Society for Social Studies of Science. Honolulu, Hawaii: Society for Social Studies of Science (4S).
• Croissant, J. L. (2021, October). Late to the Party: Temporality and Interdisciplinary Projects, Notes from the Field. Society for Social Studies of Science (4S). Virtual/Toronto: Society for Social Studies of Science.
• Croissant, J. L. (2020, December). Race, Football, Trauma: Arguments for and Against the Preservation of American Football. UA Sociology Brown Bag. UA School of Sociology.
• Croissant, J. L. (2014, September). Spatializations of Knowledge and the University: Scale, Materiality, and Metaphor. 12th Interdisciplinary Symposium on Knowledge and Space. Heidelberg, Germany: Department of Geography, Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg/Klaus Tschira Stiftung Gemeinnutzige GmbH.
• Croissant, J. L. (2013, 2013-08-01). No Harm, No Foul: Prosthesis, Compensation, and Shifting Terrains of Disability. American Sociological Association. NYC.
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  ;Invited: Yes;Type of Presentation: Academic Conference;
• Croissant, J. L., & Smith-Doerr, L. (2013, 2013-10-01). : Interrogating Collaboration: Complex Questions and New Directions for Studying Interdisciplinary and Interinstitutional Collaboration. Society for Social Studies of Science. San Diego.
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  ;Submitted: Yes;Interdisciplinary: Yes;Other collaborative: Yes;Specify other collaborative: Panel organizer for 4S panel (above), co-author with Laurel Smith-Doerr ;Type of Presentation: Academic Conference;
• Croissant, J. L., & Smith-Doerr, L. (2012, 2012-07-01). The Entrepreneurial University: Feminist Perspectives. Pomona College.
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  Thurs Feb 2, 2012. Part of STS Colloquium Series.;Your Role: Primary author and presenter.;Invited: Yes;Other collaborative: Yes;Specify other collaborative: Smith-Doerr is Co-PI at BU;Type of Presentation: University;
• Croissant, J. L., & Smith-Doerr, L. (2012, 2013-02-01). Interrogating Collaboration: How Chemical Scientists Define Collaboration and Responsibilities to Collaborators. 4S. Copenhagen.
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  ;Your Role: Presenter/Co-Author;Submitted: Yes;Other collaborative: Yes;Specify other collaborative: L.S-D is at BU;Type of Presentation: Academic Conference/Workshop;
• Croissant, J. L. (2011, 2011-10-01). Change Your Brain, Change Your.... Society for Social Studies of Science. Cleveland, OH.
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  ;Submitted: Yes;Type of Presentation: Academic Conference;
• Croissant, J. L. (2010, 2010-08-01). Agnotology and the Study of things that aren't there.. Society for Social Studies of Science. Tokyo, Japan.
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  I am also co-organizer of the panel, with Wenda Bauchspies (GA Tech) and Brian Rappert (Exeter, UK) on "The Absence of Absences" within which this paper appears.;Submitted: Yes;Interdisciplinary: Yes;Type of Presentation: Academic Conference;
• Croissant, J. L., & Smith-Doerr, L. (2010, 2010-08-01). Gendering Science, Gendering Ethics: The Intersecting Production of Knowledge, Gender, and Ethical Issues,. Society for Social Studies of Science. Tokyo, Japan.
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  ;Your Role: Presented. Co-Author.;Submitted: Yes;Interdisciplinary: Yes;Other collaborative: Yes;Specify other collaborative: Dr. Smith-Doerr is at BU.;Type of Presentation: Academic Conference;
• Croissant, J. L. (2009, 2009-04-01). The Social Construction of What? Strategic and Methodological Disaggregation and the Socio-Technical Line. Pacific Sociological Association. San Diego.
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• Croissant, J. L. (2009, 2009-08-01). Legislating Pain Treatment: Modeling the Emergence of Ubiquitous Pain Measurment Systems. American Sociological Association. San Francisco, CA.
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  Roundtable presentation in the Science, Knowledge, and Technology Section Refereed Roundtables.;Submitted: Yes;Type of Presentation: Academic Conference;
• Croissant, J. L. (2009, 2009-08-01). To Bean or Not to Bean: The Ironic Political Economy of Vanilla Production. American Sociological Association. San Francisco.
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  Regular presentation in a Science, Knowledge, and Technology Section Session.;Submitted: Yes;Type of Presentation: Academic Conference;
• Croissant, J. L. (2009, 2009-10-01). Agnotology and Error: Privatives and Symmetry. Science Studies Colloquium Series. University of San Diego.
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  Presented new work on agnotology to the Science Studies Program (Graduate Students and Faculty) at UCSD.;Invited: Yes;Type of Presentation: University;
• Croissant, J. L. (2009, 2009-10-01). Agnotology's Errors: Privatives and Asymmetry. Society for Social Studies of Science (4S). Washington, DC.
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  ;Submitted: Yes;Type of Presentation: Professional Organization;
• Croissant, J. L. (2008, 2008-02-01). Pain, Fatigue, and Sites of Knowledge. HSTS Seminar Series. Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA.
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  ;Invited: Yes;Type of Presentation: University;
• Croissant, J. L. (2008, 2008-11-01). Why We (Still) Need Women's Studies. AAUW-Juniata Branch Monthly Meeting. Huntingdon, PA.
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  ;Invited: Yes;Type of Presentation: Community Outreach;

Reviews

• Croissant, J. L. (2013. Book Review: I Died for Beauty: Dorothy Wrinch and the Cultures of Science.
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  ;Full Citation: Journal of Humanistic Mathematics, June 2013. Review of "Senechal, Marjorie (2013). "I Died for Beauty: Dorothy Wrinch and the Cultures of Science," NY: Oxford.;Electronic: Yes;
• Croissant, J. L. (2007. Suffering for Science.
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  Book Review;Your Role: Author of Review;Full Citation: Published Review: Suffering for Science: Reason and Sacrifice in Modern America REBECCA M. HERZIG. New Brunswick, NJ, Rutgers University Press, 2005194 pp., ISBN: 0831536626. History and Technology, pp. 313-315.Vol. 23, No. 3, September 2007, pp. 309-315 (esp. 313-315.);

Others

• Croissant, J. L., & Smith-Doerr, L. (2016, November). Gender Equity and Interdisciplinary Collaboration. SSRC Items. http://items.ssrc.org/gender-equity-and-interdisciplinary-collaboration/
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  Research summary piece from the SSRC "Items" digital forum.http://items.ssrc.org/about-items/
• Croissant, J. L. (2008). Adoption of Technology.
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  ;Your Role: Author;Full Citation: Croissant, Jennifer L. (2008). Adoption of Technology, pp. 305-306 in International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences. Darity, William A., Jr., Ed. Detroit, MacMillan Reference.;Type of Publication: Encyclopedia Article;
• Croissant, J. L. (2008). Miscellaneous Entries.
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  ;Your Role: Author;Full Citation: Croissant, Jennifer (2008). various articles (below) Battleground Science and Technology, Peter Denton and Sal Restivo, eds. Oxford, UK: Greenwood Press.36. Health and Medicine 216-22444. Intellectual Property 257-26054. Nature vs. Nurture 310-31357. Obesity 331-33358. Objectivity 333-33566. Prostheses and Implants 357-35972. Robots 389-39378. Scientific Method 398-40082. Sexuality 412-41494. UFOs 467-469;Type of Publication: Short articles for a "pro-con" type encyclopedia.;
• Croissant, J. L. (2008). Values.
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  ;Full Citation: Croissant, Jennifer (2008). Values, pp. 581-583 in International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences. Darrity, William A., Jr. Ed. Detroit: MacMillan Reference.;Type of Publication: Encyclopedia Article;
• Croissant, J. L. (2008). Vanilla Industry.
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  ;Your Role: Author;Full Citation: Croissant, Jennifer L. (2008). "Vanilla Industry", pp. 583-584 in International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences. Darity, William A., Jr. Ed. Detroit: MacMillan Reference.;Type of Publication: Encyclopedia Entry;