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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- Powell, Walter W., Kelley Packalen, and Kjersten Bunker Whittington. Forthcoming 2010. “Organizational and Institutional Genesis: The Emergence of High-Tech Clusters in the Life Sciences.” Clusters, Networks, and Innovation, edited by John Padgett and Walter W. Powell. Chapter 14.
- 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 2009). Available online at www.nber.org (forthcoming books).
- Whittington, Kjersten Bunker, Jason Owen-Smith, and Walter W. Powell. 2009. “Networks, Propinquity and Innovation in Technological Communities.” Administrative Science Quarterly, 54:90-122.
- 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.
Papers in Progress
- Whittington, Kjersten Bunker “Gender and Scientific Work across Organizational Settings: Commercial Patenting in Academia and Industry, Under Review.
- 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.
Book Reviews
- 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
Courses Taught at Reed
- Sociology 211: Introduction to Sociology (Fall)
- Sociology 380: Networks and Social Structure (Fall)
- Sociology 350: Sociology of Science (Spring)
- Sociology 318: Sociology of Gender (Spring)
Research and Teaching Interests
- Science & technology
- Gender
- Organizations & work
- Social network analysis
- Quantitative methodology