Rate My Professor Martha Kenney

Martha Kenney is a Professor in the Department of Women and Gender Studies at San Francisco State University, part of the California State University system. She earned her Ph.D. in History of Consciousness from the University of California, Santa Cruz. Dr. Kenney is a feminist science studies scholar whose research explores the poetics and politics of biological storytelling. Her current project examines and intervenes in the narratives emerging from the new field of environmental epigenetics, which studies how signals from the environment affect gene expression. Specifically, she looks at how assumptions about gender, race, class and sexuality influence the design of epigenetic experiments on model organisms and how we understand the relationship between bodies and environments. She has recent and forthcoming articles in Social Studies of Science, Science as Culture, Biosocieties and Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience. Dr. Kenney teaches courses on the politics of science, technology, medicine and the environment. She has been active in discussions regarding artificial intelligence initiatives within the California State University system, including co-authoring petitions and articles advocating for investment in human-centered approaches to higher education.