Mary F.E. Ebeling

Mary F.E. Ebeling is Professor of Sociology at Drexel University, affiliated with the Center for Science, Technology and Society and the Center for Interdisciplinary Study. She also serves as a visiting researcher at Washington University School of Medicine's Institute for Informatics.

Education:

• PhD, Sociology, University of Surrey, 2006
• MscJ, Journalism, Northwestern University, 2001
• BFA, Fine Art, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1991

Her research examines intersections of gender, race, and digital technologies, with focus areas including healthcare privacy, data brokerage ecosystems, and algorithmic justice in medical capitalism. She investigates how biocapital transforms health data into market commodities through cross-sector information exchanges.

Publications demonstrate consistent focus on health data exploitation across sectors, with recent works analyzing legislative erosion of privacy protections and innovative methodologies for tracking clinical data repurposing.

Awards and Fellowships:

• Wolf Center for the Humanities Fellowship
• University of Surrey Fellowship
• Fulbright Fellowship (Zimbabwe)

Research funded by National Science Foundation, EU 5th Framework, and Economic and Social Research Council. Manages interdisciplinary collaborations across healthcare informatics and critical data studies.