Department of Gender Studies

Laura Foster is an Associate Professor of Gender Studies and Affiliate Faculty in African Studies and Maurer School of Law at Indiana University – Bloomington. She is also a Senior Researcher at the Intellectual Property Unit, University of Cape Town Faculty of Law. Her research explores questions of power and inequality at the nexus of law, science, technology, and the nonhuman. In particular, she is interested in relationships of technoscience, governance, gender, race, indigeneity, plants, health, and justice within histories of South Africa. Her innovative interdisciplinary research contributes to conversations in feminist science and technology studies (STS), critical plant studies, socio-legal studies, Indigenous and Native studies, African studies, critical intellectual property studies, and feminist data studies.