Sociology Faculty
- Title
- Associate Professor
- Division Social Sciences Division
- Department
- Sociology Department
- Affiliations Science & Justice Research Center, Anthropology Department, John R. Lewis College, Global & Community Health
- Phone 831-459-2638
- Website
- Office Location
- Rachel Carson College Academic Building, 325
- Mail Stop Rachel Carson College Faculty Services
- Mailing Address
- 1156 High Street
- Santa Cruz CA 95064
- Faculty Areas of Expertise Sociology, Science and Technology, Anthropology, African Diaspora, Sociology of Development, Genomics
- Courses SOCY 121 Sociology of Health and Medicine; SOCY 132 Sociology of Science and Technology; SOCY 127P Sociology of Drugs, Botanicals, and Pharmaceuticals
Research Interests
Health disparities, race, and medicine; power, subject-making, and citizenship; ethnography, political economy, grounded theory: diasporic and transnational Africa.
Biography, Education and Training
Ph.D. Medical Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley/University San Francisco, 2012
Selected Publications
Book
Sweetness in the Blood: Race, Risk, and Type 2 Diabetes (U Minn Press, March 2021)
Journal Articles
2021 "The Case of Sparkle Rai: A Violent Patriarchal Narrative of Conspiratorial Kinship and Race." Feminist Anthropology 2(2): 271-283.
2018 “Ennobling the Neanderthal: Racialized Texts and Genomic Admixture.”
Kalfou: A Journal of Comparative and Relational Ethnic Studies Vol. 5(1): 61-67.
2016 “Bioethical Matriarchy: Race, Gender, and the Gift in Genomic Research” Special Issue: "Nothing/More: Black Studies and Feminist Technoscience" Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience 2(2): 1-28.
2016 “Sweet Salvation: One Black Church, Diabetes Outreach, and Trust” Transforming Anthropology 24(2): 125-135.
2007 “Race and Anthropology, Race in Anthropology: From Race to Ancestry, Gene to Genotype.” Kroeber Anthropological Society Papers Vol. 95: 1-6.
