Kjersten Bunker Whittington, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Reed College

Sociology Department
Reed College
3203 SE Woodstock Blvd.
Portland, OR 97202

Office: Vollum 133
Phone: (503) 517-7628
Email: whittington at reed dot edu

Ph.D. Stanford University 2007.
MA Stanford University 2001.
BS North Carolina State University (Physics) 1999.
Reed College 2007-.

Publications

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Whittington, Kjersten Bunker, Forthcoming. “Patterns of Male and Female Dissemination in Public and Private Science”. The New Market for Scientists and Engineers: The Science and Engineering Workforce in the Era of Globalization, edited by Richard B. Freeman and Daniel F. Goroff. (University of Chicago Press for NBER/SEWP, forthcoming 2008). Available online at www.nber.org (forthcoming books).
Whittington, Kjersten Bunker and Laurel Smith-Doerr. 2008. “Women Inventors in Context: Disparities in Patenting across Academia and Industry”. Gender & Society 22(2):194-218
Whittington, Kjersten Bunker. 2007. “Employment Sectors as Opportunity Structures: Male and Female: The Effects of Location on Male and Female Scientific Dissemination”. PhD Dissertation, Stanford University.
Whittington, Kjersten Bunker and Laurel Smith-Doerr. 2005. “Women and Commercial Science: Women’s Patenting in the Life Sciences” Journal of Technology Transfer: Special Issue on Women and Science, 30(November): 355-370.
Porter, Kelley, Kjersten Bunker Whittington, and Walter W. Powell. 2005. “The Institutional Embeddedness of High-Tech Regions: Relational Foundations of the Boston Biotechnology Community.” Clusters, Networks, and Innovation, edited by Stefano Breschi and Franco Malerba, Oxford University Press. Pages 261-296.

Whittington, Kjersten Bunker, Jason Owen-Smith and Walter W. Powell. “Networks, Propinquity and Innovation in Technological Communities.” R&R, Administrative Science Quarterly. Draft available upon request.
Packalen, Kelley, Kjersten B. Whittington, Jason Owen-Smith, and Walter W. Powell. “Which Secrets Need to Be in the Air? An Analysis of the Geographic Division of Labor in the Biopharmaceutical Industry". NBER Biopharma Location Project, in progress.
Whittington, Kjersten Bunker. “Gender and Patenting in Academia and Industry: Interactions between Individual and Contextual Characteristics.” Working paper in progress.
Whittington, Kjersten Bunker. “Male and Female Inventor Collaboration Networks in the Boston Biotechnology Community.” Working paper in progress.
Whittington, Kjersten Bunker. “Exploring the Breakup of Violent Adolescent Relationships.” Working paper available upon request.

Whittington, Kjersten Bunker. 2008. Review of Gender, Women, Gender and Technology, edited by Mary Frank Fox, Deborah Johnson and Sue Rosser (2006, University of Illinois Press), Review of Policy Research, 25(2), p189-191