Rate My Professor Jennifer Hamilton

Jennifer A. Hamilton is Professor and Chair of Anthropology at Bates College, joining the faculty in 2022. A sociocultural anthropologist, her interdisciplinary research and teaching center on feminist science and technology studies, medical and legal anthropology, ethnography, and the politics of indigeneity. She earned her PhD in Anthropology from Rice University. Prior to Bates, Hamilton served as Associate Professor of Legal Studies and Anthropology at Hampshire College. There, she directed the Five College Women’s Studies Research Center from 2017 to 2020, presided over the Hampshire College chapter of the American Association of University Professors from 2018 to 2019, and participated in the Advisory Circle of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Mellon Grant through the Five College Consortium from 2020 to 2022.

Hamilton authored Indigeneity in the Courtroom: Law, Culture, and the Production of Difference in North American Courts (Routledge, 2009), an ethnographic analysis of how law produces indigenous difference in U.S. and Canadian courts. She is revising a second book manuscript, Settler Science and the Politics of Indigeneity. Her publications also include "What Indians and Indians Can Teach Us about Colonization: Feminist Science and Technology Studies, Epistemological Imperialism, and the Politics of Difference" (Feminist Studies, 2017), "Critical Perspectives on Whiteness and Technoscience: An Introduction" (Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience, 2018), "The Mating Life of Geeks: Love, Neuroscience, and the New Autistic Subject" (Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 2015), "Reindeer and Woolly Mammoths: The Imperial Transit of Frozen Meat from the North American Arctic" (2021), "On the Ethics of Unusable Data: Learning Anthropology's Method in a Time of Transition" (2017), and "Revitalizing Difference in the HapMap: Race and Contemporary Human Genetic Variation Research" (2008). With over 280 citations, her scholarship impacts critical anthropology on law, science, race, and colonial legacies.