Joanna Kempner, associate professor in the Department of Sociology at Rutgers University, is an award-winning sociologist of science, medicine, technology, and inequality, and the author of Psychedelic Outlaws: The Movement Revolutionizing Modern Medicine (Hachette, 2024) and Not Tonight: Migraine and the Politics of Gender and Health (Chicago, 2014).
Kempner’s research is published in top journals across multiple disciplines, including Science, PLoS Medicine, and Social Science & Medicine and featured in the Washington Post, the New York Times, PBS Newshour, and the BBC.
She’s also a West Philly mom with two kids, two cats, and a very small poodle.
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