
Rene Almeling is Professor of Sociology at Yale University and author of two award-winning books, Sex Cells: The Medical Market for Eggs and Sperm (2011) and GUYnecology: The Missing Science of Men’s Reproductive Health (2020). She is starting a new research project on the sociology of climate change, which she will be discussing in her talk. Professor Almeling’s research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. Her essays have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, and Elle. At Yale, she holds courtesy appointments in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, the Institution for Social and Policy Research, the School of Public Health, and the School of Medicine. She is Chair-elect of the Science, Knowledge, and Technology section of the American Sociological Association.


