MIRANDA R. WAGGONER University of Virginia Tel: (434) 924-6520 Department of Sociology Fax: (434) 924-7028 221 Randall Hall Email: mrw9z@virginia.edu Charlottesville, VA 22904 Website: www.mirandawaggoner.com POSITIONS 2014- Assistant Professor of Sociology and Women, Gender & Sexuality University of Virginia 2011-2014 National Institutes of Health/National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow Office of Population Research Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs Princeton University EDUCATION 2011 Ph.D., Sociology and Social Policy, Brandeis University 2008 M.A., Social Policy, Brandeis University 2004 B.A., Sociology and Government with High Honors, The University of Texas at Austin RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS Sociology of health and medicine Sociology of science and knowledge Sociology of culture Sociology of sex and gender Sociology of reproduction and the body Qualitative research methods BOOK Projecting Pregnancies: Health, Risk, and the Maternal Imperative (under consideration, University of California Press). JOURNAL ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS forthcoming Waggoner, Miranda. Cultivating the Maternal Future: Public Health and the New Pre- Pregnant Self. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. 2014 Conrad, Peter and Miranda Waggoner. Medicalization. The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Health, Illness, Behavior, and Society. Edited by William C. Cockerham, Robert Dingwall, and Stella Quah. UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 1448 1452. 2013 Waggoner, Miranda R. Motherhood Preconceived: The Emergence of the Preconception Health and Health Care Initiative. Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 38 (2): 345-371. 2013 Waggoner, Miranda R. Parsing the Peanut Panic: The Social Life of a Contested Food Allergy Epidemic. Social Science & Medicine 90: 49-55. 2013 Almeling, Rene and Miranda R. Waggoner (equal authorship). More and Less than Equal: How Men Factor in the Reproductive Equation. Gender & Society 27 (6): 821-842. 2012 Waggoner, Miranda R., Robin Gaines Lanzi, and Lorraine V. Klerman. Pregnancy
Intentions, Long-Acting Contraceptive Use, and Rapid Subsequent Pregnancies among Adolescent and Adult First-Time Mothers. Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Nursing 25: 96-104. 2011 Waggoner, Miranda R. Monitoring Milk and Motherhood: Lactation Consultants and the Dilemmas of Breastfeeding Advocacy. International Journal of Sociology of the Family (Special Issue on Policing Motherhood ) 37(1): 153-171. 2011 Shostak, Sara and Miranda Waggoner. Narration and Neuroscience: Encountering the Social on the Last Frontier of Medicine. Advances in Medical Sociology, vol. 13: Sociological Reflections on the Neurosciences. Edited by Martyn Pickersgill and Ira Van Keulen. Emerald Press, 51-74. 2007 Musick, Marc A. and Miranda R. Waggoner. Self-Initiated Volunteering and Mental Health. Altruism and Health: Perspectives from Empirical Research. Edited by Stephen G. Post. Oxford University Press, 82-96. REVIEWS forthcoming Waggoner, Miranda R. Review of Biology After the Sociobiology Debate: What Introductory Textbooks Say About the Nature of Science and Organisms by Carmen James Schifellite, Peter Lang Publishing (2011) (invited review for Contemporary Sociology). 2010 Waggoner, Miranda and Cheryl Stults. Gender and Medicalization. Fact sheet prepared for Sociologists for Women in Society. SWS Network News 4 (Winter): 13-17. 2009 Waggoner, Miranda R. Review of The Anorexic Self: A Personal, Political Analysis of a Diagnostic Discourse by Paula Saukko, State University of New York Press (2008). Gender & Society 23: 837-838. 2008 Waggoner, Miranda R. Review of Sanctioning Pregnancy by Harriet Gross and Helen Pattison, Routledge (2007). Journal of Health Psychology 13: 441. MANUSCRIPTS IN PREPARATION Waggoner, Miranda and Tobias Uller. Epigenetic Determinism in Science and Society. (revise and resubmit, New Genetics and Society). Waggoner, Miranda. Medicine and Medicalization. (under contract for the Wiley- Blackwell Encyclopedia of Gender and Sexuality Studies, edited by Nancy Naples). Programming the Fetus: Metaphor, Technology, and Population Health in the Postgenomic Age The Rise of Anticipatory Medicalization Theorizing Proximity Risk in a New Epidemic (with Michaela DeSoucey) FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, AND AWARDS 2013-2014 National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship (Science, Technology, and Society Program; Cultural Anthropology Program, SES Award 1256651) Waggoner 2
2011-2013 National Institutes of Health Postdoctoral Fellowship, Princeton University (T32 HD007163) 2011 Rose Laub Coser Dissertation Proposal Award (Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Proposal in the Area of the Family or Gender and Society), Eastern Sociological Society 2010-2011 National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement Grant (Sociology Program, SES Award 1029087) 2010-2011 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Dissertation Year Fellowship, Brandeis University 2010 The Heller School for Social Policy and Management Dissertation Grant, Brandeis University 2009 Phoebe and Dr. Donald Giddon Grant for Research on Women and Health, Women s and Gender Studies Program, Brandeis University 2009 Berkowitz Dissertation Research Award, Department of Sociology, Brandeis University 2008 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Graduate Consortium in Women s Studies Writing Prize 2007-2008 Outstanding Teaching Fellow Award, Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, Brandeis University 2007 Outstanding Teaching Award, Department of Sociology, Brandeis University 2003-2004 Hibbs Award for Sociology, Department of Sociology, The University of Texas at Austin 2003 College-Wide Liberal Arts Essay Competition Award, The University of Texas at Austin INVITED PRESENTATIONS 2014 Invited critic, Author Meets Critic: Cut It Out: The C-Section Epidemic in America (NYU Press, 2013) by Theresa Morris, Eastern Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Baltimore, February 20. 2013 Programming the Fetus: Reproductive Technology and the Developmental Origins Hypothesis. Rutgers University Interdisciplinary Symposium on Maternal and Fetal Bodies. New Brunswick, NJ, November 9. 2013 Programming the Fetus: Metaphor, Technology, and Population Health in the Postgenomic Age. Harvard University Humanities Center, Gender and Sexuality Seminar. Cambridge, MA, October 24. 2013 Theorizing Proximity Risk in a New Epidemic. Rutgers University Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research Colloquium. New Brunswick, NJ, October 10. 2013 The Origin and Operationalization of Fetal Programming Science. Interdisciplinary Panel on Parental Effects Research, International Society for History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology Annual Meeting, Montpellier, France, July 9. Waggoner 3
2013 Every Woman, Every Time: Anticipatory Motherhood in a New Reproductive Care Paradigm. Transylvania University Colloquium. Lexington, Kentucky, February 21. 2011 Entangling Motherhood and Womanhood in the Name of Health. Rutgers University Gender, Inequality, and Difference Workshop. New Brunswick, NJ, November 9. 2010 Preconception Care. Sociology of Reproduction Course. University of Maryland, College Park, October 27. SELECTED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS 2014 Theorizing Proximity Risk in a New Epidemic (with Michaela DeSoucey). American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, August 17 (forthcoming). 2013 Preconception Care and the Rise of Anticipatory Medicine. American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, New York, August 10. 2012 Entangling Motherhood and Womanhood in Reproductive Health: Social Implications of the Preconception Care Initiative. American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Denver, August 17. 2012 Programming the Fetus: Technology, Metaphor, and the Fetal Origins Hypothesis. Eastern Sociological Society Annual Meeting, New York City, February 25. 2011 Boundary Tensions in the Reproductive Health Arena. American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, August 23. 2011 Representations of Reproductive Health in the Preconception Care Initiative. Society for the Study of Social Problems Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, August 19. 2011 From the Womb to the Body: Preconception Care and the Characterization of Reproductive Risk. Eastern Sociological Society Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, February 24. 2010 Predictors of Exclusive Breastfeeding among Adolescent and Adult First-Time Mothers (with Lane Volpe). American Public Health Association Annual Meeting, Denver, November 9. 2010 Deception of Conception: Shifting Ethical Boundaries of Reproductive Care. American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, August 14. MEDIA 2013 Research on men and reproduction (article published in Gender & Society, 2013) featured on Slate Magazine, December 3; Chicago Tribune, December 3; Yale and Princeton websites, December 3; Slate France, December 5; Time.com, December 10. 2013 Research on peanut allergies (article published in Social Science & Medicine, 2013) featured on Princeton University homepage, July 25. 2011 Research on pre-pregnancy care featured on website Science & Sensibility (http://www.scienceandsensibility.org/), November 4. Waggoner 4
COURSES TAUGHT University of Virginia Health and Society Gender and the Body in Society Feminist Theory (forthcoming) Brandeis University Sociology of Body and Health Gender and the Body in Society Sociology of Families PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATION SERVICE 2014 Simmons Dissertation Award Committee Member, American Sociological Association Section on Medical Sociology (appointed). 2013 Nominations Committee, American Sociological Association Section on Medical Sociology Council (elected). 2013 Organizer, American Sociological Association Annual Meeting Section on Medical Sociology Session, Emerging Medical Epidemics, New York. 2013 Organizer (with Susan Markens), Eastern Sociological Society Annual Meeting Mini- Conference, Sociology of Reproduction, Boston. 2012-2013 Chair, Graduate Student Paper Competition Committee, Society for the Study of Social Problems Health, Health Policy, and Health Services Division. 2012 Organizer and Chair (with Elizabeth Sweeney), Section on Science, Knowledge, and Technology Roundtables, American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Denver. 2011 Organizer (with Arthur L. Greil), Society for the Study of Social Problems Annual Meeting Session, Reproductive Health: Current Issues and Prospects for Change, Las Vegas. 2010-2011 Student Editor (with Vanessa Munoz), American Sociological Association Section on Medical Sociology Newsletter. 2008-2011 Editor, Society for the Study of Social Problems Health, Health Policy and Health Services Division Newsletter. 2010-2011 Program Reviewer, Maternal and Child Health Section Abstracts, American Public Health Association Annual Meetings. 2010 Organizer (with Elizabeth Ettorre), Society for the Study of Social Problems Annual Meeting Sessions, Reproductive Justice: Exploring Birth and Reproductive Justice: Exploring Motherhood, Atlanta. 2006-2007 Organizer, International Society of Critical Health Psychology Conference, Boston. REFEREE SERVICE Social Science & Medicine, Gender & Society, Population Research and Policy Review, Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, PLOS ONE, Contraception, Journal of Family Issues, Contexts, Symbolic Interaction, Qualitative Sociology, Sociological Inquiry, Contemporary Sociology, Critical Public Health, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Food, Culture, and Society, Berghahn Books, The Netherlands Organisation for Health Research and Development Waggoner 5