Franke Lectures - Duana Fullwiley, Stanford University

Duana Fullwiley, “The Ancestors Watch in Disbelief: Genomic Ancestry, Power, and (Un)freedom”

Duana Fullwiley is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Stanford University. She is interested in how social identities, health outcomes, and molecular genetic findings
increasingly intersect. Her book The Enculturated Gene: Sickle Cell Health Politics and Biological Difference in West Africa won the Royal Anthropological Institute’s 2011 Amaury Talbot Prize for the most valuable work of African Anthropology and the American Anthropological Association’s 2014 Robert B. Textor and Family Prize for Excellence in Anticipatory Anthropology. Fullwiley recently completed a Scholars Award in the National Science Foundation’s Science & Society Program to research her second book, Tabula Raza: Mapping Race and Human Diversity in American Genome Science. She has also been an invited scholar at the Centre de Sociologie de l’Innovation in Paris, a USIA Fulbright Scholar to Senegal, a fellow at the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and a Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society Scholar at the Harvard School of Public Health.

The lectures are made possible by the generosity of Richard and Barbara Franke, and are intended to present important topics in the Humanities to a wide and general audience.
For more information, please contact the Whitney Humanities Center at 203 432-0670 or email whitneyhumanitiescenter@yale.edu.