Assistant Professor
125 Johnston Hall
(414) 229-6273
barbley@uwm.edu
Vita (pdf-60kb)
Ph.D., University of California at Santa Cruz
B.A., Swarthmore College
Research Interests: Science, health, social activism and the media; science and technology studies; digital cultures; feminist and cultural theory
Teaching Interests: Health and the Media, Contemporary Issues in Mass Communication, Internet Culture and Ethnography, Digital Cultures
Biography:
Barbara Ley joined the JMC faculty in fall 2003. Prior to her appointment, she spent seven years researching and working on local and national environmental breast cancer and safe drinking water campaigns. She has published work on ethnographic strategies for studying the internet and is currently writing a book manuscript about the U.S. environmental breast cancer movement titled Assembling Breast Cancer: Activism, Science and the Environment. Other research interests include public understandings of science; media and the production of scientific and medical knowledge; on-line disease cultures and communities; and social activism and alternative media.