Dr. Alondra Nelson, The Social Life of DNA: Race and Reconciliation after the Genome

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March 21, 2017
5:00PM - 6:30PM
Thompson Library Campus Reading Room, 11th floor

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Add to Calendar 2017-03-21 17:00:00 2017-03-21 18:30:00 Dr. Alondra Nelson, The Social Life of DNA: Race and Reconciliation after the Genome The Department of African American and African Studies 2017 Distinguished LectureDr. Alondra Nelson is the professor of sociology and gender studies and Dean of Social Science at Columbia University, and was recently appointed president of the SSRC. Dr. Nelson, an interdisciplinary social scientist, her lectures, books, and articles explore the intersections of science, medicine, and social inequality. Her books include The Social Life of DNA: Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation after the Genome, Genetics and the Unsettled Past: The Collision of DNA, Race, and History, and Technicolor: Race, Technology, and Everyday Life, Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight against Medical Discrimination, which won the Mirra Komarovsky Book Award from the Eastern Sociological Society, the Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Book Award from the American Sociological Association (Section on Race, Gender and Class) and was a finalist for the C. Wright Mills Award. Co-sponsors: Human Rights In Transit Discovery Theme Project, The Ohio State University Libraries, and The Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity.   Thompson Library Campus Reading Room, 11th floor Department of African American and African Studies afamast@osu.edu America/New_York public

The Department of African American and African Studies 2017 Distinguished Lecture

Dr. Alondra Nelson is the professor of sociology and gender studies and Dean of Social Science at Columbia University, and was recently appointed president of the SSRC. Dr. Nelson, an interdisciplinary social scientist, her lectures, books, and articles explore the intersections of science, medicine, and social inequality. Her books include The Social Life of DNA: Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation after the Genome, Genetics and the Unsettled Past: The Collision of DNA, Race, and History, and Technicolor: Race, Technology, and Everyday Life, Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight against Medical Discrimination, which won the Mirra Komarovsky Book Award from the Eastern Sociological Society, the Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Book Award from the American Sociological Association (Section on Race, Gender and Class) and was a finalist for the C. Wright Mills Award.
 
Co-sponsors: Human Rights In Transit Discovery Theme Project, The Ohio State University Libraries, and The Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity.
 
 
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