Discussant: Ezekiel Dixon-Román (Penn School of Social Policy and Practice)

Silverstein Forum, Stiteler
Hall First Floor (Accessibility) / Free and open to the public

Citizenship on the Edge.
Sex/Gender/Race. 2016-2017 Democracy, Citizenship and Constitutionalism
Program.

in partnership with the Alice Paul Center

ALONDRA
NELSON is professor of sociology and gender studies and Dean of Social
Science at Columbia University, where she has served as director of the
Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality. She is
Chair-elect of the American Sociological Association Section on Science,
Knowledge, and Technology. She is the author of The Social Life of DNA: Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation after the Genome (2016), which traces how claims about ancestry are marshaled together with genetic analysis in a range of social ventures, and Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight Against Medical Discrimination (2011). She is also editor or coeditor of the volumes Technicolor: Race, Technology and Everyday Life (2001), Afrofuturism (2002), and Genetics and the Unsettled Past: The Collision of DNA, Race, and History (2012).

For a full schedule of events:
https://www.sas.upenn.edu/dcc/events-workshops