Our Team

Lisa R. Rubin is a Clinical Psychologist and Associate Professor of Psychology at the New School for Social Research. She is the former Co-Chair of the New School’s graduate certificate in Gender and Sexuality Studies. Her research focuses on the intersection of objectification and medicalization in healthcare, including an emphasis on “stratified biomedicalization”, or the uneven distribution of technoscientific interventions (leaving some to manage excessive biomedical intervention, and others lacking basic care), and a concern for under-researched groups, focusing on intersections of privilege and oppression across race, gender, disability, and sexuality in medicine. Lisa has explored these questions in the context of breast cancer and access to and decision-making about breast reconstruction post-mastectomy (e.g., Rubin & Tanenbaum, 2011; Rubin, Chavez, Alderman, & Pusic, 2013), body image across contexts (Rubin, Fitts, & Becker, 2003; Rubin & Steinberg, 2011),  and reproductive justice in the context of infertility and Assisted Reproductive Technologies (e.g., Rubin & Phillips, 2012).