Faculty

Valerie Tornini

Valerie Tornini

BS, Biology, Duke University AB, Religion, Duke University PhD, Cell Biology, Duke University Postdoctoral Fellowship, Department of Genetics, Yale School of Medicine 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 PhD from…

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Danielle Carr

Danielle Carr

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. Her current work involves two book projects. The first is a political history of neural…

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Nanibaa’ Garrison

Nanibaa’ Garrison

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 for the UCLA genetic counseling master’s program.  Dr. Garrison earned her Ph.D. in genetics at…

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Nicholas Shapiro

Nicholas Shapiro

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…

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Bharat Venkat

Bharat Venkat

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…

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Michelle Rensel

Michelle Rensel

2010   PhD     Biology, The University of Memphis 2009   MS       Biology, The University of Memphis 2005   BS        Biology, The University of Puget Sound (minor in Latin American Studies) Michelle Rensel is a behavioral endocrinologist who utilizes a number of experimental and field-based tools to assess the complex relationship between hormones and behavior in birds. In particular, she investigates the role of…

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