Margaret Eby is a medical sociologist and historian of medical ethics (PhD Sociology, UC Berkeley). Their dissertation on eugenics as a “new science” in the first decades of the twentieth century analyzes how professional expertise, identity, and dissent shaped the legitimacy of eugenic interventions. They will continue this research on legitimacy and contention at Penn, researching how narratives around new genetic technologies are co-constructed by various stakeholders and the organization of dissent within these processes. Before graduate school, Margaret received a B.A. in Global Public Health from NYU and worked as a Program Assistant at NYU Langone Medical Center.
