assistant professor jessica santana

Assistant Professor

Technology Management

jsantana@ucsb.edu

http://jsantana.org/

About

Honors:
Hellman Fellowship, Society of Hellman Fellows


Research:
Dr. Santana's research focuses on how entrepreneurs use peers and rhetoric to navigate sensemaking and stigma following startup failure. She also examines the relationship between innovation and ethics in contexts including synthetic biology, clinical trials, and cryptocurrency crowdfunding. She relies primarily on computational social science methods. 


Education:

  • PhD Sociology, Stanford University
  • MA  Sociology, Stanford University
  • MSc Information Science, UC Berkeley
  • BA  International and Area Studies, University of Oklahoma