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
2023–present
Associate professor, Cornell University
2020–2023
Assistant professor, Cornell University
2014–2020
Assistant professor, Ohio State University
2012–2013
Postdoctoral fellow, University of Pennsylvania
Education
2011
University of California Santa Cruz, PhD Cultural Anthropology, designated emphasis in Feminist Studies
Publications
2024
After 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
2023
Legislating 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
2022
Afterword: Data, Life, and Worlds in an Anthropology of Bioinformation, in Bioinformation: Worlds and Futures, edited by Silvia Posocco and EJ Gonzalez-Polledo
2020
Genetic Afterlives: Black Jewish Indigeneity in South Africa, Duke University Press
2019
Forensics and Fortification in South African Self-Captivity, History and Anthropology
2018
Time and Relational Possibility: Cultural Anthropology in 2017, American Anthropologist
2017
Engagements with Decolonization and Decoloniality in and at the Interfaces of STS (co-authored with Kristina Lyons and Juno Parrenas, Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience
2015
Jewish Genetics, Oxford Bibliographies in Jewish Studies
2014
Genetic Diaspora: Producing Knowledge of Genes and Jews in Rural South Africa, Cultural Anthropology
2014
African Indigenous Citizenship (co-authored with Rachel Giraudo), in The Routledge Handbook of Global Citizenship Studies, edited by Engin F. Isin and Peter Nyers
2011
Religion as Race, Recognition as Democracy: Lemba ‘Black Jews’ in South Africa, Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science