What is Participation?
Principal Investigator(s): Christopher Kelty, Aaron Panofsky Participation–as a concept and as a practice–ranges from the frustratingly vague to the strangely precise. It is a currency of legitimacy in the contemporary…
Past Research
Model Organism Newsletters, Intellectual Property and Open Science
Principal Investigator(s): Christopher M. Kelty Scientific newsletters, especially in biology, flourished in the twentieth century. They are virtually unstudied, but can tell us a great deal about the simultaneous development…
Public Participation in Science and Technology
Principal Investigator(s): Christopher M. Kelty and Aaron Panofsky This project grows out of recent work in three areas: 1) recent research in science and technology studies on public participation and…
Maternal Effects, Developmental Nutrition, and Social Behavior
Principal Investigator(s): Karen M. Kapheim Nutritional stores are closely associated with social caste in many species. In humans, access to high caloric food is a privilege traditionally reserved for the wealthy,…
Genomic Sovereignty and the Comparative Biopolitics of Race
Principal Investigator(s): Ruha Benjamin This project that builds upon my interest in the cultural politics of science: Genomic Sovereignty and the Comparative Biopolitics of Race-Ethnicity analyzes the geneticization of race…
The Protection of Human Genetic Information and the First Amendment
Principal Investigator(s): Debra Greenfield Debra Greedfield’s research is a study of legal trends involving the rights of individuals to their own genetic information suggesting that specific Constitutional guarantees should be…