Joan Fujimura | |
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| Born | Joan Hideko Fujimura |
| Education | University of Washington University of California, Berkeley |
| Known for | Sociology of science |
| Awards | Robert K. Merton Professional Book Award from the American Sociological Association (1998) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Sociology |
| Workplaces | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| Thesis | Bandwagons in Science: Doable Problems and Transportable Packages as Factors in the Development of the Molecular Genetic Bandwagon in Cancer Research (1986) |
| Troy Duster | |
Joan Hideko Fujimura is an American sociologist and the emeritus Martindale-Bascom Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She is the president of the Society for Social Studies of Science. She was a fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study from 1999 to 2001 and of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University from 2014 to 2015.