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Cristina Bejarano serves as Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Pomona College since 2018 and holds affiliations with the intercollegiate Science, Technology and Society (STS) program. She is currently on leave for the 2025-2026 academic year while maintaining her faculty position in the Anthropology Department.
Her educational background includes:
- Ph.D. from University of California, Irvine
Bejarano specializes in sociocultural anthropology of science, medicine, and technology with research spanning medical anthropology, STS, biomedical practices, genetic essentialism, and environmental health governance. Her work critically examines how biological concepts like blood inheritance intersect with social structures, as evidenced in her book project Unruly Genomes: Blood, Inheritance, and Genetic Essentialism under contract with Johns Hopkins University Press.
Her scholarly publications focus on medical anthropology through book reviews analyzing biomedicine in Papua New Guinea and organ transplantation in Mexico, revealing cross-cutting themes of infrastructure, kinship, and national identity in healthcare systems.
Major recognitions include:
- Mellon Chau Postdoctoral Fellowship (2018-2020)
- UC Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellowship (2015-2017)
- NSF Doctoral Dissertation Grant (2010)
- Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship (2008-2011)
Her research has been sustained through competitive grants including the NSF Dissertation Improvement Grant and multiple prestigious fellowships supporting her doctoral and postdoctoral work, though specific student advising details remain unlisted in available materials.
No laboratory facilities or research teams are referenced in her current institutional profile.
