WRITINGS

Employing Biopolitically Discriminate Borders

My latest paper in Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education is titled: “Embodying biopolitically discriminate borders: teachers’ spatializations of race.” I am especially proud of this paper because of how challenging it was to write. How teachers spoke about race and racialized space was an unexpected but deeply interesting theme to emerge inContinue reading “Employing Biopolitically Discriminate Borders”

Contagion Risk, Real and Imagined – Implications for the Future

Social crises offer a unique opportunity to made substantial and rapid change for the future – good or bad. Covid-19 is no different. Today’s pandemic reveals where and when societies fall short. When our healthcare and economic systems are taxed, the communities we most value, the resources we most cherish, and the fragility of certainContinue reading “Contagion Risk, Real and Imagined – Implications for the Future”

Transcending Borders in the Ethical Oversight of Human Genome Editing

This past week Ayesha Rasheed and I wrote a piece that featured on the Hasting’s Center Blog, you can read it here. Both of us are deeply interested in the ELSI (ethical, legal, and social implications) of Genetics Research and together started thinking about a few central questions: What processes, developments, movements earlier in theContinue reading “Transcending Borders in the Ethical Oversight of Human Genome Editing”

Reading List: Race & Genetics

I had a friend recently ask for a reading list on race and genetics. They had read the NYT OpEd by Bret Stephens and wanted to understand why race science continues to exist, how people think about genetics, and how people think about race in relation to genetics. In response, I’ve compiled the following. RecommendationsContinue reading “Reading List: Race & Genetics”

Where there is threat, is there possibility? If so, how do we harness it?

Nature recently released a news feature titled: The promise and peril of the new science of social genomics A very well-written piece, in which I make a small appearance. Maya Sabatello is quoted in the piece speaking on something I truly align with:  “One of the main concerns is not so much the study of genomics,Continue reading “Where there is threat, is there possibility? If so, how do we harness it?”

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