- Research Associate, Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of the Witwatersrand and Associate Professor of Anthropology and Science & Technology Studies, Cornell University
I am a cultural anthropologist and STS scholar with a research focus on political and legal anthropology, race, the social politics of genetics, and South Africa. At Cornell University, I have a dual appointment in anthropology and science & technology studies and I am also affiliated with feminist gender and sexuality studies, LGBT studies, and Jewish studies. I am also a research associate at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WISER) at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Experience
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2023–presentAssociate professor, Cornell University
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2020–2023Assistant professor, Cornell University
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2014–2020Assistant professor, Ohio State University
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2012–2013Postdoctoral fellow, University of Pennsylvania
Education
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2011University of California Santa Cruz, PhD Cultural Anthropology, designated emphasis in Feminist Studies
Publications
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2024After Race Classification: Grappling with South African Indigenous DNA in Practice, in Ordering the Human: The Global Spread of Racial Science, edited by Dorothy Roberts, Eram Alam, and Natalie Shibley
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2023Legislating Forensic Genetics in South Africa: Science, Justice, and the Occlusion of Race in Postapartheid DNA Databasing, in Law, Practice and Politics of Forensic DNA Profiling: Forensic Genetics and Their Technolegal Worlds, edited by Victor Toom, Amade M’Charek, and Mattias Wienroth
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2022Afterword: Data, Life, and Worlds in an Anthropology of Bioinformation, in Bioinformation: Worlds and Futures, edited by Silvia Posocco and EJ Gonzalez-Polledo
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2020Genetic Afterlives: Black Jewish Indigeneity in South Africa, Duke University Press
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2019Forensics and Fortification in South African Self-Captivity, History and Anthropology
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2018Time and Relational Possibility: Cultural Anthropology in 2017, American Anthropologist
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2017Engagements with Decolonization and Decoloniality in and at the Interfaces of STS (co-authored with Kristina Lyons and Juno Parrenas, Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience
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2015Jewish Genetics, Oxford Bibliographies in Jewish Studies
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2014Genetic Diaspora: Producing Knowledge of Genes and Jews in Rural South Africa, Cultural Anthropology
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2014African Indigenous Citizenship (co-authored with Rachel Giraudo), in The Routledge Handbook of Global Citizenship Studies, edited by Engin F. Isin and Peter Nyers
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2011Religion as Race, Recognition as Democracy: Lemba ‘Black Jews’ in South Africa, Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
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