Aryn Martin works in social and historical studies of biomedicine, as well as feminist theory. In diverse empirical sites where lab meets world, her research is anchored by theoretical attention to language, classification, individuation (and its opposites), and the entanglements of social relations and biological materiality. In work that appears in Social Studies of Science, Osiris, Social Problems, Body & Society and elsewhere, Aryn has written about human genetic chimaeras, maternal-fetal microchimerism, immunology and pregnancy as phenomena that trouble biological and political notions of the individual. Other projects explore the material-semiotic history of bodily “barriers” (placental and blood-brain); the emerging “epidemic” of CTE (chronic traumatic encephalopathy) in North American contact sports, and the social and political contingencies of naming disease entities.

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Aryn Martin works in social and historical studies of biomedicine, as well as feminist theory. In diverse empirical sites where lab meets world, her research is anchored by theoretical attention to language, classification, individuation (and its opposites), and the entanglements of social relations and biological materiality. In work that appears in Social Studies of Science, Osiris, Social Problems, Body & Society and elsewhere, Aryn has written about human genetic chimaeras, maternal-fetal microchimerism, immunology and pregnancy as phenomena that trouble biological and political notions of the individual. Other projects explore the material-semiotic history of bodily “barriers” (placental and blood-brain); the emerging “epidemic” of CTE (chronic traumatic encephalopathy) in North American contact sports, and the social and political contingencies of naming disease entities.

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Professional Leadership

Associate Dean Students, Faculty of Graduate Studies (2017-2023)
Graduate Program Director, Science and Technology Studies (2014-2017)

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