Jenna Tonn
Jenna Tonn is an assistant professor of the practice and director of undergraduate studies for the human-centered engineering program at Boston College. Dr. Tonn received her Ph.D. in the history of science from Harvard University and taught in the Program in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Harvard before arriving at BC as one of the first cohort of Core Fellows. Her research centers on the social and cultural history of scientific knowledge, with a specific focus on women and gender in STEM. She is currently working on a book about masculinity and experimental biology in the nineteenth-century United States. Her next project is a history of radical feminist biology. Dr. Tonn holds a B.A. and M.A. from Stanford University. She designed and taught the hands-on experiential laboratory practicum (STEM Lab) for the Complex Problem course “Science and Technology in American Society.”