Deboleena Roy

Deboleena Roy is professor and chair of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology at Emory University,^[1] former resident research fellow at the Clayman Institute for Gender Research, Stanford University (September 2008 – June 2009),^[2] and a member of The NeuroGenderings Network.^[3] Previously, she was an assistant professor at San Diego State University.^[4] Starting in August 2020, she will be serving as the Senior Associate Dean of Faculty for Emory College of Arts and Sciences.

Roy obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in microbiology, with a minor in South Asian studies at the University of Toronto.^[4] She then pursued a Master of Science, studying the photo sensitivity of murine fibrosarcoma cells, at McMaster University.^[4] Under the supervision of Denise Belsham, Roy completed her PhD in reproductive neuroendocrinology and molecular biology at the University of Toronto's Institute of Medical Sciences.^[4][5][6]

Roy's fields of interest include feminist theory, feminist science and technology studies, neuroscience, molecular biology, postcolonial theory, and reproductive justice movements,^[1][7] with her work having been published in a number of journals including: Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society,^[8] Hypatia^[9] and Neuroethics.^[10] She serves on the editorial board of Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, and Technoscience, a journal that she helped to found with her Emory colleague Elizabeth A Wilson Archived 2017-10-13 at the Wayback Machine and University of California, San Diego faculty Lisa Cartwright Archived 2017-10-13 at the Wayback Machine and David Serlin Archived 2017-10-13 at the Wayback Machine.^[11]

Roy has been cited over 700 times, and has an h-index of 11.^[12]

• Roy, D. (2014), "Developing a new political ecology: neuroscience, feminism, and the case for the estrogen receptor", in Schmitz, Sigrid; Höppner, Grit (eds.), Gendered neurocultures: feminist and queer perspectives on current brain discourses, challenge GENDER, 2, Wien: Zaglossus, pp. 203–222, ISBN 9783902902122.
• Roy, D. (2015). "Science Studies," in Handbook of Feminist Theory ed. by Lisa Disch and Mary Hawkesworth. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199328581.
• Roy, D. Molecular Feminisms: Biology, Becomings, and Life in the Lab. University of Washington Press. (Nov 2018). Available through open access: https://uw.manifoldapp.org/projects/molecular-feminisms.

• Roy, D., Angelini, N.L. and Belsham, D.D. (1999). "Estrogen directly represses gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) gene expression in estrogen receptor-α (ERα)-and ERβ-expressing GT1–7 GnRH neurons." Endocrinology. 140 (11), 5045–5053.
• Roy, D., Angelini, N.L., Fujieda, H. Brown, G.M. and Belsham, D.D. (2001). "Cyclical regulation of GnRH gene expression in GT1–7 GnRH-secreting neurons by melatonin." Endocrinology. (11), 4711–4720.
• Roy, D. and Belsham, D.D. (2002). "Melatonin Receptor Activation Regulates GnRH Gene Expression and Secretion in GT1–7 GnRH Neurons." Journal of Biological Chemistry. 277 (1), 251–258.
• Roy, D. (2007). "Somatic matters: Becoming molecular in molecular biology. " Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge. 14.^[13]
• Roy, D. (2012). "Neuroethics, Gender, and the Response to Difference." Neuroethics 5: 217–230.
• Roy, D. (2016). "Neuroscience and Feminist Theory: A New Directions Essay." Signs. 41(3): 531–552.

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