Deboleena Roy
Deboleena Roy is a professor and chair at Emory University, leading both the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies program and the Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology department. She is a member of The NeuroGenderings Network and previously served as a resident research fellow at Stanford University’s Clayman Institute for Gender Research (Sept 2008–June 2009) and as an assistant professor at San Diego State University. In August 2020, she became the Senior Associate Dean of Faculty for Emory College of Arts and Sciences.
Roy earned a Bachelor of Science in microbiology with a minor in South Asian studies from the University of Toronto, followed by a Master of Science at McMaster University. She completed her PhD in reproductive neuroendocrinology and molecular biology at the University of Toronto’s Institute of Medical Sciences, under Denise Belsham. Her thesis explored how melatonin and gonadal steroids affect the regulation of gonadotropin-releasing hormone in hypothalamic GT1-7 neurons (2001).
Her research covers neuroscience, molecular biology, feminist science and technology studies, feminist theory, postcolonial studies, and reproductive justice. She has published in Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, Hypatia, and Neuroethics, and serves on the editorial board of Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, and Technoscience, a journal she helped found with colleagues Elizabeth A. Wilson, Lisa Cartwright, and David Serlin.
Roy has been cited over 700 times and has an h-index of 11. She is married to Sean Meighoo and they have two children, Kheyal Roy-Meighoo and Koan Roy-Meighoo. Her awards include the National Science Foundation Scholars Award. For more about her work, see her official website.
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