Lisa Jean Moore

I am a feminist medical sociologist and SUNY Distinguished Professor at Purchase College, State University of New York. I live in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. I'm the mom of three. We also live with a springy rescue rat terrier named Ziggy and a cat named Isaac James. My work examines human bodies, body parts and fluids in sociocultural contexts. I have written about human sperm, genital anatomy, and human breast milk.

I've also been deeply fortunate to teach in the Bedford Hills College Program for the past several years.

In 2018 I published a book about North American Horseshoe Crabs entitled Catch and Release: The Enduring, yet Vulnerable, Horseshoe Crab and now available from New York University Press.

My most recent book is Our Transgenic Future: Spider Goats, Genetic Modification, and the Will to Change Nature, published in 2022 by NYU Press.

I have two books in the works: Spring 2026, The Unknowable Body (Polity Press), a memoir exploring bodily uncertainty through personal experiences with medical systems and family illness, and in early 2027, The Right to Know: Higher Education in New York Prisons (co-edited with Rachel Sander, Ragnhild Utheim, and Eitan Freedenberg, NYU Press), an interdisciplinary examination of prison education as a human right.