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Jessica Santana

Jessica Santana

Assistant Professor
Technology Management

Affiliation: 
Technology Management

Contact

(805) 893-4910

University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-5080

Honors

Hellman Fellowship, Society of Hellman Fellows

Research

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. Santana 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