Hannah L. Landecker (born 1969)[1] is an Australian author and academic working as a professor of sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles and the UCLA Institute for Society and Genetics.
Landecker earned a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of British Columbia and a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
She was a visiting scholar at University of Texas Medical Branch in 2004, where she worked on a project that examined the changing human relationship to living matter in an age of biotechnology.
She has also worked on developing new methods and curricula for teaching the history and social study of biotechnology to undergraduates.
[3] Recent work includes looking at ways in which antibiotic resistance has become a key marker of the Anthropocene.