Rate My Professor Kelly Joyce

Her research interests include medical sociology, science and technology studies, sociology of aging, and qualitative methods. Key publications comprise her book Magnetic Appeal: MRI and the Myth of Transparency (Cornell University Press, 2008), which received the 2010 Eliot Freidson Outstanding Publication Award from the American Sociological Association Medical Sociology section; the co-edited volume Technogenarians: Studying Health and Illness through an Ageing, Technology, and Science Lens (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010); “Toward a Sociology of Artificial Intelligence: A Call for Research on Inequalities and Structural Change” (Socius, 2021); “Five Big Ideas About Artificial Intelligence” (Contexts, 2022); “Using Autoimmune Strategically: Diagnostic Lumping, Splitting, and the Experience of Illness” (Social Science & Medicine, 2020); and “Smart Textiles: Transforming the Practice of Medicalisation and Healthcare” (Sociology of Health and Illness, 2019). Awards include the 2011 National Science Foundation Director’s Award for Collaborative Integration, honorable mention for the 2007 IEEE Life Members’ Prize in Electrical History, the 2008 Alumni Fellowship Award for Excellence in Teaching from William and Mary, and the 2000/2001 Bok Award for Teaching Excellence from Harvard University. She guest-edited the special issue “Environmental Exposures: Technologies, Techniques, and Politics” for Environmental Sociology (2017).