About

Miranda Waggoner is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Florida State University and affiliated with FSU's Center for Demography & Population Health. Her research focuses on the social and cultural dimensions of medicine, science, and public health, with an emphasis on the politics of gender, reproduction, and maternal and child health. Her articles have been published in Signs, Social Science & Medicine, Gender & Society, Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, New Genetics and Society, among others. Her research has been supported by the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation.

Miranda grew up in Texas and graduated from The University of Texas at Austin with a B.A. in sociology and government. She then earned her Ph.D. in sociology and social policy from the Department of Sociology and The Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University. From 2011 to 2014, Miranda was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Office of Population Research at Princeton University.

Contact

Mailing address: Florida State University, Department of Sociology, 526 Bellamy Building, 113 Collegiate Loop, Tallahassee, FL32306

Email address: mwaggoner@fsu.edu

Phone: (850) 644-1378