Current Scholar Bios
RENE ALMELING 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 studying how gendered inequalities are produced through and reflected in market processes in medical settings. In her dissertation, “Egg Agencies, Sperm Banks, and the Medical Market in Genetic Material,” she compares how these sexed cells, and the women and men who produce them, are culturally and economically valued, social processes that result in gendered regimes of bodily commodification. As a Scholar, she will study how gendered ideas about bodies shape the presentation of and response to genetic knowledge. Following the Program, she will join the Sociology Department at Yale University as an Assistant Professor.
Email: almeling@berkeley.edu