Rachel Washburn
Professor of Sociology and Director of Health and Society | Loyola Marymount University
Los Angeles, CA, UNITED STATES
Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts
Biography
Rachel Washburn is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Health and Society Program at Loyola Marymount University. She received her doctorate in medical sociology from the University of California, San Francisco. Rachel's areas of research and teaching expertise include science, technology, and medicine studies, environmental health, and qualitative research methods. She has two major lines of scholarship. The first explores the politics of knowledge production in the environmental health sciences. Rachel is currently working on a project that examines the development of human biomonitoring, a technique used to measure environmental chemicals in people, in the United States during the twentieth century. A second area of scholarship is Situational Analysis, a qualitative theory/methods package that offers cartographic strategies to analyze relationalities in research situations. At LMU, Rachel teaches courses on the sociology of health and illness, health and society, and science, technology, and society.
Education (2)
University of California, San Francisco: Ph.D., Medical Sociology 2009
University of California, Santa Cruz: B.A., Sociology 1999
Areas of Expertise (3)
Sociology of health and illness
Science and technology studies
Situational Analysis
Articles (6)
Critical Situational Analysis After the Interpretive Turn
Sage Handbook of Qualitative Inquiry, 6th Ed.Clarke, Adele, Carrie Friese, and Rachel Washburn
2024-03-01
Edited Book Chapter
Reflections on Situational Analysis and its Use for Analyzing Visual Discourses
Die Situationanalyse als Forschungsprogramm: Theoretische ImplikationenWashburn, Rachel, Anna-Lisa Klages, and Anna Mazur
2023-10-01
Edited Book Chapter
Situational Analysis in Practice: Mapping Relationalities Across Disciplines
London: RoutledgeClarke, Adele, Rachel Washburn, and Carrie Friese
2022-11-01
Book
Situational Analysis: Mapping Relationalities in Psychology
Qualitative Research in Psychology: Expanding PerspectivesWashburn, Rachel, Carrie Friese, and Adele Clarke
2021-10-01
Edited Book Chapter
Conceptual Frameworks in Scientific Inquiry and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Approach to Pesticide Toxicity (1948–1968)
American Journal of Public Health2019-11-01
https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2019.305260
Review of "Toxic Safety: Flame Retardants, Chemical Controversies, and Environmental Health"
Medical Anthropology Quarterly2017. Invited Review of Cordner, Alissa. Toxic Safety: Flame Retardants, Chemical Controversies, and Environmental Health. New York: Columbia University Press. Medical Anthropology Quarterly (published online November 21, 2016)
