Charis Thompson

[2] She is the author of Making Parents: The Ontological Choreography of Reproductive Technologies (MIT Press 2005) [3] which won the 2007 Rachel Carson Prize from the Society for Social Studies of Science.

[4] She has written on stem cell research, biodiversity conservation, and population.

She is the author of Good Science: the Ethical Choreography of Stem Cell Research (MIT Press 2013).

She is a recipient of the Distinguished Teaching Award from the UC Berkeley Social Science Division.

In 2017, she was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU).