Alexandra Minna Stern, Ph.D. is the Dean of Humanities, and Professor of English, History, and in the Institute for Society and Genetics at the University of California, Los Angeles. Most of her research has focused on the uses and misuses of genetics in the United States and Latin America. She is the author of the award-winning Eugenic Nation: Faults and Frontiers of…

Adys Mendizabal, MD, MS, is an Assistant Professor the Department of Neurology and the Institute for Society and Genetic sat the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). She earned a Bachelor of Science in Psychobiology from the University of Miami and completed medical school at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University. While in medical school, she also earned…

1995 Ph. D., University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana Dr. Stefan Timmermans is Professor at the UCLA Department of Sociology as well as a professor at ISG. His research draws from medical sociology and science studies and uses ethnographic and historical methods to address key issues in the for-profit U.S. health care system. He has conducted research on medical technologies, health professions, death and dying, and population health. …

B.A., 1988, Cornell University Ph.D., 1995, University of California, Los Angeles Rachel C. Lee, Professor of Gender Studies, English, and the Institute of Society and Genetics at UCLA, specializes in embodiment studies through cultural studies methods and intersectional feminism. She is the author of The Exquisite Corpse of Asian America: Biopolitics, Biosociality, and Posthuman Ecologies (NYU, 2014) winner of the 2016 Best…

1994, J.D. Stanford University 1989, B.A. Stanford University Russell Korobkin is Professor of Law at the UCLA School of Law, where he teaches contracts, negotiation, and health care law. Prior to joining the UCLA faculty in 2001, he held appointments at the University of Illinois College of Law and the University of Illinois Institute of Government and Public Affairs. He…

Ph.D., University of Texas, Austin, Psychology: 2000 M.A., College of William & Mary, Psychology: 1997 B.A., University of San Diego, Psychology; magna cum laude: 1992 Martie G. Haselton is a Professor in the Departments of Psychology and Communication Studies as well as ISG. Haselton’s research focuses on evolution and human behavior, social psychology, interpersonal communication, social endocrinology. Empirical work explores…