Carla Lam

Carla Lam has been a teacher and researcher of political theory and gender studies for 15 years. In addition to her academic experience, she has taught medical students the social/economic and technical dimensions of women's reproductive health, and analyzed policy at Health Canada in Ottawa. She took up her current position in the politics department at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand in 2008. Her research interests include political and moral thought, history of ideas, philosophy of embodiment, feminist studies of science and technology, and post-constructionism (or getting beyond the nature/nurture debate, including beliefs in a meaningful separation between human and natural worlds).