Education BS, Biology, Duke University AB, Religion, Duke University PhD, Cell Biology, Duke University Postdoctoral Fellowship, Department of Genetics, Yale School of Medicine Bio I was born and raised in Port Chester, NY, and received my B.S. in biology and A.B. in religion from Duke University. I completed my doctoral training in developmental and stem cell biology and earned my…
2022 Ph.D., Anthropology, Columbia University Danielle Carr is an Assistant Professor at the Institute for Society and Genetics at UCLA. Trained as an anthropologist and historian of neuroscience, her work brings together the critical study of the brain and mind sciences in the twentieth century with the history of politics. At UCLA, she also directs the Material Intelligence as Historical…
Education PhD – Genetics, Stanford University BS – Molecular & Cellular Biology, University of Arizona Bio Nanibaa’ Garrison (Navajo), Ph.D. is an Associate Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. She has appointments in the Institute for Society and Genetics, the Institute for Precision Health, and the Division of General Internal Medicine & Health Services Research. She is a teaching faculty…
DPhil, Anthropology, University of Oxford MPhil, Medical Anthropology, University of Oxford BA, Global Public Health and Anthropology, Bard College Nicholas Shapiro is a multidisciplinary environmental researcher that studies, and designs interventions into, issues of chemical contamination and climate change. He has worked tracking the quasi-legal resale of 120,000+ chemically contaminated housing units after Hurricane Katrina, developing air monitoring systems with…
2014 Ph.D., Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley 2007 M.A., Cultural and Social Anthropology, Stanford University 2006 B.A., Cultural and Social Anthropology, Stanford University Dr. Bharat Jayram Venkat is an Associate Professor at UCLA with a joint appointment spanning the Institute for Society & Genetics, the Department of History, and the Department of Anthropology. He is also affiliated with the UCLA Center for…
Education PhD – Biology, The University of Memphis MS – Biology, The University of Memphis BS – Biology, The University of Puget Sound (minor in Latin American Studies) Bio Dr. Michelle Rensel is an Associate Teaching Professor in the Institute for Society and Genetics. She is trained as an avian behavioral endocrinologist and interdisciplinary life sciences educator. Dr. Rensel’s research…