Anna Jabloner

Dr. Anna Jabloner is an assistant professor of anthropology at IE University. Her research centers on the social and cultural dimensions of science, technology, medicine, and data, on biopolitics and bioethics, feminist epistemologies, gender and race, futurism, and on ethnographies of the US. Jabloner is working on a book titled Future Pending: Genomics, California, and the American Technological Imagination, and she has authored recent articles in the journals Social Analysis, Science as Culture, Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience, and Nature Biotechnology, among others. Her research has been supported by the US National Institutes of Health, Wenner-Gren Foundation, Social Science Research Council, and the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research. Jabloner was educated at the University of Vienna and the University of Chicago and completed postdoctoral fellowships at Stanford, Columbia, and Harvard. After teaching at Harvard University for four years, she joins IE from Goethe University Frankfurt, where she was a postdoctoral fellow in the project “Fixing Futures: Technologies of Anticipation in Contemporary Societies.”

Academic Experience

• Assistant Professor of Anthropology, IE University, Spain, 2024 - Present

• Postdoc and Lecturer on Anthropology, Harvard University, US, 2019 - 2023

• Postdoctoral Researcher, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany, 2023

• Visiting Professor of Anthropology, University of Vienna, Austria, 2023

• Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Columbia University, US, 2017 - 2019

• Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University, US, 2016 - 2017

Academic Background

• Ph.D. in Anthropology, University of Chicago, US, 2015

• Mag.aPhil. in Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Vienna, Austria, 2004

Selected Publications

• Jabloner, A., Walker, A. (2023). “The Pitfalls of Genomic Data Diversity”. The Hastings Center Report, Vol. 53(5):10-13. 

• Jabloner, A. (2022). “American Bioinformation and U.S. Race Politics: The Values of Diverse Genetic Data”. In Gonzalez-Polledo, E. & Posocco, S. (Eds.). Bioinformation Worlds and Futures. London & New York: Routledge

• Jabloner, A. (2021). “Relative Risk: Measuring Kinship for Future Health in U.S. Genetic Counseling”. Social Analysis, Vol. 65(4): 111-130. 

• Jabloner, A. (2019). “A Tale of Two Molecular Californias”. Science as Culture Vol. 28(1): 1-24