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stef shuster

Associate Professor

Berkey Hall, 434C

(517) 355-4189

sshuster@msu.edu

Curriculum Vitae

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Area of Expertise

Health Medicine and the BodyRace Class Gender and Sexuality

Biography

stef m. shuster is an associate professor in the Society Program (Lyman Briggs College) and Department of Sociology (College of Social Science). They earned their Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Iowa, with a certificate in Gender Studies, and their B.A. in Sociology from Indiana University, Bloomington. Their current research in gender, medicine, and feminist science, knowledge, and technology studies is united by an overarching interest in how evidence is a social artifact that is

Education

PhD, The University of Iowa 2014

Publications

2026 Becker, Andréa, stef shuster, Leah R. Koenig, Jennifer Ko, Ushma D. Upadhyay “Transgender, Nonbinary, and Gender Expansive Experiences with Telehealth Medication Abortion and Implications for Health Equity in the US.” Contraception 153:111212. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.contraception.2025.111212

2025 shuster, stef, Nicole Wonderlin, and Shahnaz Masani. “Plant Sex: A Cultural Analysis of the Gendering of Plant Reproduction Processes.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 50(30):707-32.

2025 Moseson, Heidi, Iris Olson, stef shuster, Angel Foster, Leo Han, Miles Harris, and Brooke Levandowski. “Approaching the Concepts of Gender and Sex in Family Planning Research.” Contraception 141:110708. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.contraception.2024.110708

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