Kelly Moore

Kelly Moore studies the relationship between science, morality, and politics. This essay is drawn from her current research project, Pleasuring Science, on the rise and gendered forms of neoliberal eating and exercise in the US. She is the author of Disrupting Science: Scientists, Social Movements and the Politics of the Military, 1945-1975 (Princeton University Press, 2008), winner of the 2009 Charles Tilly Prize from the American Sociological Association section on Collective Behavior and Social Movements and the 2011 Robert K. Merton Prize from the American Sociological Association Section on Science, Knowledge and Technology. Moore co-edited The New Political Sociology of Science (Wisconsin, 2014) and is co-editing The Handbook of Science, Technology and Society (with Daniel L. Kleinman, forthcoming 2014, Routledge). Moore’s other work has also appeared in sociological and cross-disciplinary journals, including Theory and Society and the American Journal of Sociology, and Moore has a piece on foodways among the urban poor forthcoming in Geoforum. Moore is currently Associate Professor of Sociology at Loyola University Chicago, and has held academic positions at the University of Cincinnati, Barnard College, and Brooklyn College. In 2011-2012, Moore was Co-director of the National Science Foundation Science, Technology and Society Program, and Director of the Ethics Education in Science and Engineering Program.