PhD, Geography Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Jonah Walters is a human geographer whose research examines state and popular responses to mass social vulnerability. At ISG, he studies the sociotechnical construction of lethality in medicolegal death examination as a member of the BioCritical Studies Lab under the direction of Associate Professor Terence Keel. His current project interrogates the…

Kushan Dasgupta is a political and cultural sociologist who studies the roles that civil society actors play in the coordination and coproduction of scientific expertise and governmental authority. He has researched both grassroots bone marrow donation efforts and minimum wage policymaking. As a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Society and Genetics, he is researching how far-right groups appropriate genetics…

PhD, Philosophy Anne Le Goff is a philosopher working in bioethics and science and technology studies. She uses the tools of philosophy and ethnography to ask how our concepts of and norms around life are transformed by practices in contemporary life sciences and biotechnologies, ethics, and our relationships to nonhuman animals. Her current research focuses on germ cells and the germline.…