06/01/2020 DOROTHY E. ROBERTS University of Pennsylvania 3501 Sansom Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 [email protected]
Professional History
14th Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor; George A. Weiss University Professor of Law & Sociology; Raymond Pace & Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights; and Professor of Africana Studies, University of Pennsylvania (as of July 1, 2012).
Founding Director, Penn Program on Race, Science & Society, Center for Africana Studies, University of Pennsylvania, 2013-present.
Research Associate, Population Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania, 2016-present.
Kirkland & Ellis Professor, Northwestern University School of Law (September 2002-June 2012); professor, School of Law (July 1998-August 2002); professor, Departments of African American Studies and Sociology, Northwestern University (by courtesy) (July 1998-June 2012).
Faculty fellow, Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University (July 1998-June 2012).
Visiting Fellow, Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, Stanford University (January- June 2008).
Bacon-Kilkenny Distinguished Visiting Professor, Fordham University School of Law (spring 2006).
Fulbright Fellow, Centre for Gender and Development Studies, University of the West Indies, Trinidad & Tobago (September 2002-June 2003).
Professor, Rutgers University School of Law-Newark (July 1994-June 1998); Associate Professor (July 1988-June 1994).
Visiting Professor, Stanford Law School (Spring 1998).
Visiting Professor, Northwestern University School of Law (Fall 1997).
Fellow, The Program in Ethics and the Professions, Harvard University (September 1994-July 1995).
Visiting Associate Professor, University of Pennsylvania Law School (Spring 1994).
Associate (litigation); Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison; New York, NY (1981-1988).
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Law clerk to the Honorable Constance Baker Motley, United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (1980-1981).
Education
Harvard Law School, J.D., 1980.
Yale College, B.A., Magna Cum Laude, 1977 (elected to Phi Beta Kappa).
Publications
Key works
Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and The Meaning of Liberty (Random House/Pantheon, 1997; Vintage paperback, 1999; Vintage 20th Anniversary edition, 2017).
Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century (The New Press, 2011).
Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfare (Basic Books/Civitas, 2001; paperback, 2002).
"Punishing Drug Addicts Who Have Babies: Women of Color, Equality, and The Right of Privacy," 104 Harvard Law Review 1419 (1991).
"Spiritual and Menial Housework," 9 Yale Journal of Law & Feminism 51 (1997).
“The Social and Moral Cost of Mass Incarceration in African American Communities,” 56 Stanford Law Review 1271 (2004).
“Race, Gender, and Genetic Technologies: A New Reproductive Dystopia?,” 34 Signs 783 (2009).
“Law, Race, and Biotechnology: Toward a Biopolitical and Transdisciplinary Paradigm,” 9 Annual Review of Law & Social Science 149 (2013).
“Abolition Constitutionalism,” Foreword to The Supreme Court, 2018 Term Issue, Harvard Law Review 1-122 (2019).
Books: Monographs
3. Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century (The New Press, 2011).
2. Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfare (Basic Books/Civitas, 2001; paperback, 2002).
1. Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and The Meaning of Liberty (Random House/Pantheon, 1997; Vintage paperback, 1999; Vintage 20th Anniversary Edition, 2017).
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Co-edited Books
9. Sex, Power, and Taboo: Gender and HIV in the Caribbean and Beyond (with Rhoda Reddock, Dianne Douglas & Sandra Reid, Ian Randle Publishers, 2009).
8. Frug’s Women and The Law (with Libby Adler, Lisa Crooms, Judith Greenberg & Martha Minow, Foundation Press, 4th ed., 2008).
7. Constitutional Law: Cases, History and Dialogues (with William D. Araiza & Phoebe A. Haddon, Lexis/Nexis, 3rd ed., 2006).
6. Frug’s Women and The Law (with Judith Greenberg & Martha Minow, Foundation Press, 2nd ed., 1998; 3rd ed. 2004).
5. First Amendment Law: Cases, Comparative Perspectives, and Dialogues (with Donald E. Lively, William D. Araiza, Phoebe A. Haddon, & John C. Knechtle, Anderson Publishing Co., 2003).
4. Constitutional Law: Cases, History and Dialogues (with Donald E. Lively, Phoebe A. Haddon, Russell L. Weaver, & William D. Araiza, Anderson Publishing Co., 2nd ed., 2000).
3. Constitutional Law: Cases, History and Dialogues (with Donald E. Lively, Phoebe A. Haddon, Russell L. Weaver, Anderson Publishing Co, 1996).
2. Constitutional Law Anthology (edited with Michael J. Glennon, Donald E. Lively, Phoebe A. Haddon, and Russell L. Weaver, Anderson Publishing 1996).
1.A First Amendment Anthology (edited with Donald E. Lively and Russell L. Weaver, Lexis/Nexis 1994).
Works in Progress
Untitled book manuscript on an abolitionist approach to ending foster care and transforming child welfare, under contract with Basic Books for 2021 publication.
Ordering the Human: Global Science and Racial Reason (edited with Eram Alam and Natalie Shibley).
Articles & Essays in Scholarly Journals
79. “Why Sociology Matter to Race and Biosocial Science,” Annual Review of Sociology (with Oliver Rollins) (in press).
78. “Abolition Constitutionalism,” Foreword to The Supreme Court, 2018 Term Issue, Harvard Law Review 1-122 (2019).
77. “Digitizing the Carceral State,” reviewing Virginia Eubanks, Automating Inequality How High- Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish The Poor (2017), 132 Harvard Law Review 1695-1728 (2019).
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76. “’It Is Likely a White Gene’”: Racial Voyeurism and Consumption of Black Mothers and ‘White’ Babies in Online News Media,” Humanity & Society (with Sonita R. Moss) (first published online March 14, 2019).
75. “Learning about Race: The Lived Experiences of Interracially Married U.S.-born White and European Immigrant Women in the 1930s,” Sociology of Race & Ethnicity (with Sarah Adeyinka- Skold) (first published online August 7, 2018).
74. “The Most Shocking and Inhumane Inequality: Thinking Structurally About Persistent Poverty and Racial Health Inequities,” MLK50 Symposium, 49 University of Memphis Law Review 167-183 (2018).
73. “Why Baby Markets Aren’t Free,” 7 University of California-Irvine Law Review 611-621 (2018).
72. “Democratizing Criminal Law as an Abolitionist Project,” 111 Northwestern Law Review 1597- 1607 (2017).
71. “Crossing Two Color Lines: Interracial Marriage and Residential Segregation in Chicago,” 45 Capital University Law Review 1-32 (2017).
70. “Sleep Disparity, Race/Ethnicity, and Socioeconomic Position,” 18 Sleep Medicine 7-18 (2016) (with Michael Grandner, Natasha Williams, Kristen L. Knutson & Girardin Jean-Louis).
69. “Taking Race Out of Human Genetics,” 351 Science 564-565 (2016) (with Michael Yudell, Sarah Tishkoff & Rob DeSalle) (cited by American Society of Human Genetics, “ASHG Denounces Attempts to Link Genetics and Racial Supremacy,” American Journal of Human Genetics 103:1-1 (2018).
68. “Can Research on the Genetics of Intelligence Be ‘Socially Neutral’?,” 45 Hastings Center Report Issue S1, S50-S53 (2015).
67. “Race, Care Work, and The Private Law of Inheritance,” 40 Law & Social Inquiry 511-518 (2015).
66. “The Politics of Race and Science: Conservative Colorblindness and The Limits of Liberal Critique,” 12 Du Bois Review 199-211 (2015).
65. “Loving v. Virginia as a Civil Rights Decision,” 59 New York Law School Law Review 175-209 (2014-2015).
64. “Child Protection as Surveillance of African American Families,” 36 Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law 426-437 (2014).
63. “Structural Competency Meets Structural Racism: Race, Politics, and the Structure of Medical Knowledge,” AMA Journal of Ethics, September 2014, https://journalofethics.ama- assn.org/article/structural-competency-meets-structural-racism-race-politics-and-structure- medical-knowledge/2014-09 (with Jonathan M. Metzl).
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62. “Complicating the Triangle of Race, Class, and State: The Insights of Black Feminists,” 37 Ethnic & Racial Studies 1776-1782 (2014).
61. “Reconciling Equal Protection Law in the Public and in the Family: The Role of Racial Politics,” responding to Katie Eyer, “Constitutional Colorblindness and the Family,” 162 University of Pennsylvania Law Review Online 283 (2014).
60. “Law, Race, and Biotechnology: Toward a Biopolitical and Transdisciplinary Paradigm,” 9 Annual Review of Law & Social Science 149-166 (2013).
59. “Movement Intersectionality: The Case of Race, Gender, Disability, and Genetic Technologies,” 10 DuBois Review 313-328 (2013) (with Sujatha Jesudason), reprinted in Margaret L. Andersen & Patricia Hill Collins, eds., Race, Class, & Gender: An Anthology (10th ed., Cengage Learning, 2019).
58. “Prison, Foster Care, and the Systemic Punishment of Black Mothers,” 59 UCLA Law Review 1474 (2012).
57. “The Social Context of Oncofertility,” 61 DePaul Law Review 777 (2012).
56. “Debating the Cause of Health Disparities: Implications for Bioethics and Racial Equality,” 21 Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 332-341 (2012).
55. “Race, Gender, and the Conflation of Biological and Social Issues,” 9 DuBois Review 235-244 (2012) (book review).
54. “What’s Wrong with Race-based Medicine? Genes, Drugs, and Health Disparities,” 2010 Dienard Memorial Lecture in Law & Medicine, 12 Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology 1-21 (2011).
53. “Collateral Consequences, Genetics Surveillance, and the New Biopolitics of Race,” 54 Howard Law Journal 567-586 (2011).
52. “Race, Gender, and Genetic Technologies: A New Reproductive Dystopia?,” 34 Signs 783-804 (2009).
51. “Medical Hope, Legal Pitfalls: Potential Legal Issues In The Emerging Field Of Oncofertility,” 49 Santa Clara Law Review 673-716 (2009) (with Gregory Dolin, Lina M. Rodriguez, and Teresa K. Woodruff).
50. “Is Race-Based Medicine Good for Us?: African-American Approaches to Race, Biotechnology, and Equality,” 36 Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 537-545 (2008).
49. “The Racial Geography of Child Welfare: Toward a New Research Paradigm,”87 Child Welfare 125-150 (2008).
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48. “Torture and the Biopolitics of Race,” 62 University of Miami Law Review 229-247 (2008).
47. “Constructing a Criminal Justice System Free of Racial Bias: An Abolitionist Framework,” 39 Columbia Human Rights Law Review 261 (2008).
46. “Child Welfare’s Paradox,” 49 William & Mary Law Review 881-901 (2007).
45. “Legal Constraints on the Use of Race in Biomedical Research: Toward a Social Justice Framework,” 34 Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 526-534 (2006).
44. “Race and Gender in the Law Review,” 100 Northwestern University Law Review 27-70 (2006) (with Cynthia Bowman & Leonard Rubinowitz).
43. “Victims and Villains in Murder by Abortion Cases from Turn-of-the-Twentieth-Century Chicago,” 124 Triquarterly 63-78 (2006) (with Carolyn Frazier).
42. “Privatization and Punishment in the New Age of Reprogenetics,” 54 Emory Law Journal 1343- 1360 (2005), excerpted in Melissa Murray & Kristin Luker, eds., Cases on Reproductive Rights and Justice (2015).
41. “The Community Dimension of State Child Protection,” 34 Hofstra Law Review 23-37 (2005).
40. "Black Club Women and Child Welfare: Lessons for Modern Reform," 2004 Mason Ladd Lecture, 32 Florida State University Law Review 957-972 (2005).
39. “The Social and Moral Cost of Mass Incarceration in African American Communities,” 56 Stanford Law Review 1271-1305 (2004).
38. “Welfare Reform and Economic Freedom: Low-Income Mothers' Decisions about Work at Home and in the Market,” 44 Santa Clara Law Review 1029-1963 (2004).
37. “Child Welfare and Civil Rights,” 2001 David C. Baum Memorial Lecture on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, 2003 University of Illinois Law Review 171.
36. “Social Justice and Family Court Reform,” in 40 Family Court Review 453 (2003) (with Susan L. Brooks).
35. “Welfare Reform and Families in The Child Welfare System,” 61 University of Maryland Law Review 386 (2002) (with Morgan B. Ward Doran).
34. “Kinship Care and the Price of State Support for Children,” Symposium on the Structures of Care Work, 76 Chicago-Kent Law Review 1619 (2001).
33. “Criminal Justice and Black Families: The Collateral Damage of Over-Enforcement,” 2000 Bodenheimer Lecture on the Family, 34 U.C. Davis Law Review 1005 (2001).
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32. “Poverty, Welfare Reform, and the Meaning of Disability,” 62 Ohio State Law Journal 425 (2001) (with Jennifer Pokempner).
31. "The Moral Exclusivity of the New Civil Society," 75 Chicago-Kent L. Rev. 555 (2000).
30. “Is There Justice in Children’s Rights?: The Critique of Federal Family Preservation Policy,” 2 University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law 112 (2000).
29. “Creating and Solving the Problem of Drug Use during Pregnancy,” 90 Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology 1353 (2000) (book review).
28. “Foreword: Race, Vagueness, and the Social Meaning of Order Maintenance Policing,” Supreme Court Issue, 89 Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology 775 (1999).
27. “The Challenge of Substance Abuse for Family Preservation Policy,” Symposium on Substance Abuse, Families, and the Courts: Legal and Public Health Challenges, 3 Journal of Health Care Law & Policy 72 (1999).
26. “Poverty, Race, and New Directions in Child Welfare Policy,” 1 Journal of Law & Policy 63 (1999).
25. “Sources of Commitment to Social Justice,” 4 Roger Williams University Law Review 175 (1998) (Roger Williams University School of Law Third Annual Lecture).
24. “Who May Give Birth to Citizens?: Reproduction, Eugenics, and Immigration,” 1 Rutgers Race & Law Review 129 (1998).
23. "The Meaning of Blacks' Fidelity to the Constitution," 65 Fordham Law Review 1761 (1997).
22. "Spiritual and Menial Housework," 9 Yale Journal of Law & Feminism 51 (1997); excerpted in Katharine T. Bartlett, Angela P. Harris, & Deborah L. Rhode, Gender and Law: Theory, Doctrine, and Commentary (Aspen Publishers, 3d ed. 2002).
21. "Unshackling Black Motherhood," 95 Michigan Law Review 938 (1997), reprinted in Notable Selections in Crime, Criminology, and Criminal Justice (Dushkin/McGraw-Hill 2000).
20. "Biology, Justice, and Women's Fate," 3 U. of Chicago Law School Roundtable 465 (1997).
19. "The Nature of Blacks' Skepticism about Genetic Testing," 27 Seton Hall Law Review 971 (1997).
18. "Race and the New Reproduction," 47 Hastings L.J. 935 (1996); excerpted in Health Care and the Law: A Multi-Disciplinary Reader (John H. Robinson, et. al., eds, Carolina Academic Press, 1998); Critical Race Theory: The Cutting Edge (Richard Delgado & Jean Stefancic, eds., 2d ed. 2000).
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17. "Welfare and The Problem of Black Citizenship," 105 Yale L. J. 1563 (1996) (book review); reprinted in Martha R. Mahoney, John O. Calmore, & Stephanie M. Wildman, Social Justice: Professionals, Communities, and Law (West Publishing 2002).
16. "The Priority Paradigm: Private Choices and the Limits of Equality," 57 U. Pittsburgh L. Rev. 363 (1996).
15. "A Feminist Social Justice Approach to Reproduction-Assisting Technologies: A Case Study on the Limits of Liberal Theory," 84 Kentucky L. J. 1197 (1995-96) (with Joan C. Callahan).
14. "The Genetic Tie," 62 Univ. of Chicago L. Rev. 209 (1995); excerpted in Critical White Studies: Looking Behind the Mirror (Richard Delgado & Jean Stefancic eds., NYU Press 1997).
13. "Irrationality and Sacrifice in The Welfare Reform Consensus," 81 Virginia L. Rev. 2607 (1995).
12. "The Only Good Poor Woman: Unconstitutional Conditions and Welfare," 72 Denver U. L. Rev. (1995).
11. "Race, Gender, and the Value of Mothers' Work," 2 Social Politics 195 (1995).
10. "Social Justice, Procreative Liberty and The Limits of Liberal Theory: Robertson's Children of Choice, 20 Law & Social Inquiry 1005 (1995) (book review).
9. "Motherhood and Crime," 79 Iowa L. Rev. 95 (1993); reprinted in 42 Social Text 99 (1994); excerpted in Feminist Jurisprudence: Taking Women Seriously (Mary Becker et al., 2d ed. 2000).
8. "The Value of Black Mothers' Work," 26 Conn. L. Rev. 871 (1994); reprinted in Critical Race Feminism: A Legal Reader (Adrien K. Wing ed., NYU Press 1997); 26 Radical America 9 (1996); excerpted in Feminist Jurisprudence: Taking Women Seriously (Mary Becker et al., 2d ed. 2000).
7. "Foreword: The Meaning of Gender Equality in Criminal Law," Symposium on Women and Criminal Law, 85 Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology 1 (1994).
6. "Deviance, Resistance, and Love," 1994 Utah L. Rev. 179.
5. "Rust v. Sullivan and the Control of Knowledge," 61 George Washington L. Rev. 587 (1993).
4. "Racism and Patriarchy in the Meaning of Motherhood," 1 Am. Univ. Journal of Gender & The Law 1 (1993); reprinted in Mothers in Law: Feminism and The Legal Representation of Motherhood (Martha A. Fineman & Isabel Karpin eds., Columbia University Press 1995).
3. "Crime, Race and Reproduction," 67 Tulane L. Rev. 1945 (1993).
2. "Rape, Violence and Women's Autonomy," 69 Chicago-Kent L. Rev. 359 (1993).
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1. "Punishing Drug Addicts Who Have Babies: Women of Color, Equality, and The Right of Privacy," 104 Harvard L. Rev. 1419 (1991); reprinted/excerpted in many books, including Sex Matters: The Sexuality and Society Reader (Mindy Stombler, et al., 2d. ed. 2006); Women’s Lives: Multicultural Perspectives (Gwyn Kirk & Margo Okazawa-Rey eds., Mayfield 2d ed. 2000); Fifty Years War: A Half Century of Abortion Politics, 1950-2000 (Rickie Solinger ed., University of California Press 1997); Critical Race Feminism: A Legal Reader (Adrien K. Wing ed., NYU. Press 1997); Feminist Legal Theory: Perspectives on Sex, Violence, Work, and Reproduction (D. Kelly Weisberg ed., Temple University Press 1996); Critical Race Theory: A Reader (Kimberle Crenshaw et al. eds., The New Press 1995).
Chapters in Edited Books
43. “Race and the Enlightenment,” Ibram X. Kendi & Keisha N. Blain, eds., 400 Souls (forthcoming 2020).
42. “Why Reproductive Justice Matters to Reproductive Ethics,” in Katie Watson and Julie Chor, eds., Reproductive Ethics in Clinical Practice (with Melissa Gilliam) (Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2020).
41. “The Resurgence of Racial Science from The Bell Curve to BiDil,” in Oxford Handbook of American Medical History (Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2020).
40. “Buck v. Bell as A Critical Race Theory Opinion,” in Bennett Capers, Devon Carbado, Robin Lenhardt & Angela Onwauchi Willig, eds., Critical Race Judgments: Rewritten U.S. Court Opinions on Race and Law (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2020).
39. “What Does Health Equity Require? Racism and the Limits of Medicare for All,” in Kate Aronoff, Peter Dreier & Michael Kazin, eds., We Own the Future: Democratic Socialism—American Style 223- 235 (The New Press, 2020).
38. “Whose Conception of Human Flourishing?,” in Eric Parens & Josephine Johnston, eds., Human Flourishing in An Age of Gene Editing (Oxford University Press, 2019)
37. “Black Mothers, Prison, and Foster Care: Rethinking Restorative Justice,” in Gale Burford, Valerie Braithwaite, and John Braithwaite, eds., Restorative and Responsive Human Services (Routledge, 2019).
36. “Critical Race Feminism,” in Cynthia Bowman and Robin West, eds., Research Handbook on Feminist Jurisprudence (Elgar Publishing, 2019).
35. “The Ethics of Biosocial Science,” in Mark Matheson, ed., The 2016 Tanner Lectures on Human Values 37 (University of Utah Press, 2018).
34. "Critical Race Feminism" in Feminist Jurisprudence in the United States and Asia: A Transpacific Dialogue (Cynthia Grant Bowman & Yu Xingzhong eds., 2017), published in Chinese.
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33. “The Problem with Race-based Medicine,” in Osagie Obasogie & Marcy Darnovsky, eds., Beyond Bioethics: Toward a New Biopolitics 410-414 (University of California Press, 2018).
32. “Marginalized Mothers and Intersecting Systems of Surveillance: Prisons and Foster Care,” in Jane Jenson, Sonya Michel & Yasmine Ergas, eds., Reassembling Motherhood: Procreation and Care in a Globalized World (Columbia University Press, 2017).
31. “The Social Context of Oncofertility,” in Ana Porroche-Escudero, Gerard Coll-Planas & Caterina Riba, eds., Perspectives Feministes Sobre el Cancer de Mama (Vic, Catalonia, Spain: Collecion Capsa de Pandora, 2016) (in Catalan).
30. “A New Reproductive Dystopia?,” in Rachel E. Dubrofsky & Shoshana Amielle Magnet, eds., Feminist Surveillance Studies 169-188 (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2015).
29. “The U.S. Welfare State’s Punishment of Black Women’s Childbearing and Care Giving,” in Pauli Kattenen, Sonya Michel & Klaus Peterson, eds., Race, Ethnicity, and Welfare States: An American Dilemma? 72-82 (Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing 2015).
28. “Toward Common Ground on Policies Advancing Reproductive Justice,” in Robin West, Justin Murray & Meredith Esser, eds., In Search of Common Ground on Abortion: From Culture Wars to Reproductive Justice 109-116 (Farnham, England: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2014).
27. "The Racial Geography of Child Welfare: Toward a New Research Paradigm," in Deborah Green, Kathleen Belanger, Ruth G. McRoy, & Lloyd Bullard, eds., Challenging Racial Disproportionality in Child Welfare: Research, Policy, and Practice 13-22 (Washington, DC: CWLA Press, 2011).
26. "Qu'est-ce qui ne va pas avec la 'medecine raciale'?: Genetique, pharmacologie et egalite, in Guillaume Canselier & Sonia Desmoulin-Canselier, Les Categories Ethno-Raciales a L'Ere des Biotechnologies: Droits, Sciences et Medecine Face a la Diversite Humaine 41-53 (Paris, France: Societe de Legislation Comparee, 2011).
25. “Race and the New Biocitizen,” in What’s the Use of Race 259-276 (Ian Whitmarsh & David Jones, eds., MIT Press, 2010).
24. “The Social Immorality of Health in the Gene Age: Race, Disability, and Inequality,” in Against Health (Jonathan Metzl & Anna Kirkland, eds., NYU Press, 2010).
23. “The Paradox of Silence and Display: Sexual Violation of Enslaved Women and Contemporary Contradictions in Black Female Sexuality,” in Beyond Slavery: Overcoming its Religious and Sexual Legacies (Bernadette J. Brooten, ed., Praeger Press, 2010).
22. “Medical Hope, Legal Pitfalls: Potential Legal Issues in the Emerging Field of Oncofertility,” in Teresa K. Woodruff, Laurie Zoloth, Lisa Campo-Engelstein & Sarah Rodriguez, eds., Oncofertility: Ethical, Legal, Social, and Medical Perspectives (Springer, 2010), pp. 111-134 (with Gregory Dolin, Lina M. Rodriguez, and Teresa K. Woodruff) .
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21. "Sick and Tired: Working Women and Their Health," The Shriver Report: A Woman's Nation Changes Everything, A Study by Maria Shriver and The Center for American Progress 122-155 (Heather Boushey & Ann O'Leary, eds., The Center for American Progress, 2009) (with Jessica Arons).
20. "Margaret Sanger and the Racial Origins of the Birth Control Movement," in Racially Writing the Republic: Racists, Race Rebels, and Transformations of American Identity 196-213 (Bruce Baum & Duchess Harris, eds., Duke University Press 2009).
19. “Torture and the Biopolitics of Race,” in Rethinking America: The Imperial Homeland in the 21st Century 167-184 (Jeff Maskovsky & Ida Susser, eds., Paradigm Press 2009).
18. "The Racial Geography of State Child Protection," in New Landscapes of Inequality: Neoliberalism and the Erosion of Democracy in America 153-168 (Jane L. Collins, Micaela Di Leonardo, & Brett Williams, eds., School for Advanced Research Press 2008).
17. “Shattered Bonds: Poverty, Race, and the Child Welfare System,” in Hope for Children in Poverty (Ron Sider & Heidi Rolland Unruh, eds., Judson Press 2007).
16. “Adoption Myths and Racial Realities in the United States,” in Outsiders Within: Writing on Transracial Adoption 49-56 (Jane Jeong Trenka, Julia Chinyere Oparah, & Sun Yung Shin, eds., South End Press 2006).
15. "Child Welfare as a Racial Justice Issue," in Race and Ethnicity in Society: The Changing Landscape (Elizabeth Higginbotham & Margaret L. Andersen, eds. Thomson-Wadsworth 2006).
14. "Feminism, Race, and Adoption Policy," in Adoption Matters: Philosophical and Feminist Essays 234-46 (Sally Haslanger & Charlotte Witt, eds. Cornell University Press 2005); reprinted in The Color of Violence (Incite!Women of Color Against Violence, ed. South End Press 2006).
13. “The Collective Harm of Sexual Harassment,” in New Directions in Sexual Harassment Law 365- 81 (Catharine MacKinnon & Reva Siegel, eds., Yale University Press 2004).
12. “Poverty, Race, and The Distortion of Dependency: The Case of Kinship Care,” in The Subject of Care: Feminist Perspectives on Dependency 277-93 (Eva Feder Kittay & Ellen K. Feder, eds., Rowman & Littlefield 2003).
11. “The Future of Reproductive Choice for Poor Women and Women of Color,” in The Politics of Women’s Bodies 282-289 (Rose Weitz, ed., Oxford University Press 2003).
10. "Rasse, Genetik und Reproduktionstechnologien," in Genpool: Biopolitik und Korper-Utopien (Theo Steiner, ed., Vienna, Austria: Passagen Verlag 2003).
9. "The Ethics of Punishing Indigent Parents," in From Social Justice to Criminal Justice: Poverty and the Administration of Criminal Law 161-88 (William C. Heffernan & John Kleinig, eds., Oxford University Press 2000).
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8. "Mothers Who Fail to Protect Their Children: Accounting for Private and Public Responsibility," in Mother Troubles: Rethinking Contemporary Maternal Dilemmas 31-47 (Julia E. Hanigsberg & Sara Ruddick, eds., Beacon Press 1999).
7. "Why Culture Matters to Law: The Difference Politics Makes," in Cultural Pluralism, Identity Politics, and the Law 85-110 (Austin Sarat and Thomas R. Kearns, eds., University of Michigan Press 1999).
6. “Welfare’s Ban on Poor Motherhood,” in Whose Welfare? 152-67 (Gwendolyn Mink, ed., Cornell University Press, 1999).
5. “The Absent Black Father,” in Lost Fathers: The Politics of Fatherlessness in America 144-61 (Cynthia R. Daniels ed., St. Martin’s Press 1998).
4. "The Meaning of Blacks' Fidelity to the Constitution," in Constitutional Stupidities, Constitutional Tragedies 226-34 (William Eskridge & Sanford Levinson eds., NYU Press 1998).
3. "Teaching Police Ethics as Professional Ethics," in Teaching Criminal Justice Ethics: Strategic Issues 79-85 (John Kleinig & Margaret Leland Smith eds., Anderson Publishing Co. 1997).
2. "Reconstructing the Patient: Starting with Women of Color," in Feminism and Bioethics: Beyond Reproduction 116-43 (Susan M. Wolf ed., Oxford University Press 1996).
1. "Who May Give Birth to Citizens?: Reproduction, Eugenics, and Immigration," in Immigrants Out!: The New Nativism and the Anti-Immigrant Impulse in the US 205-19 (Juan F. Perea ed., NYU Press 1996).
Other Scholarly Publications
"Family Planning Policy and Development Discourse in Trinidad & Tobago: A Case Study in Nationalism and Women's Equality,” in Social Science Library: Frontier Thinking in Sustainability and Human Wellbeing. [CD] (Medford, MA: Global Development and Environment Institute, 2009).
The Racial Geography of the Child Welfare System: Community Impact and Response: Final Conference Report (Fordham Law School & Fordham Interdisciplinary Center for Family and Child Advocacy, 2006) (co-edited with Leah Hill and Erik Pitchal).
Racial Disproportionality in the U.S. Child Welfare System: Documentation, Research on Causes, and Promising Practices (Annie E. Casey Foundation, 2002).
Dual Involvement of Illinois Families in TANF and the Child Welfare System: Parents’ Perceptions and Experiences (University of Illinois Children and Family Research Center, 2001) (with Morgan B. Ward Doran).
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The Impact of Welfare Reform on Child Welfare and Child Protective Services: A Literature Review (University of Illinois Children and Family Research Center, 2000) (with Morgan B. Ward Doran). Women, Pregnancy, and Substance Abuse (Center for Women Policy Studies, 1991).
Shorter Articles, Essays, and Editorials “Foreword,” in Helena Hansen & Jonathan M. Metzl, eds., Structural Competency in Mental Health and Medicine (Springer, 2019). “Black Families Matter: How the Child Welfare System Punishes Poor Families of Color,” The Appeal, March 26, 2018 (with Lisa K. Sangoi). “Foreword,” in Loretta Ross, Lynn Roberts, Erika Derkas, et al., eds. Radical Reproductive Justice: Foundations, Theory, Practice, Critique (Feminist Press, 2017). “Preface to 20th Anniversary Edition,” Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and The Meaning of Liberty (Vintage, 2017). “Reproductive Justice, Not Just Rights,” Dissent, Fall 2015. “Realizing Reproductive Health Equity Requires More Than Long-Acting Reversible Contraception (LARC), 106 American Journal of Public Health 18-19 (2015) (with Aline C. Gubrium, Emily S. Mann, Sonya Borrero, et al). “Adrienne Asch (1946-2013): Bioethicist who fought for disability rights in reproductive technologies,” 504 Nature 377 (2013). "Believing in Race in the Gene Age," Atrium: The Report of the Northwestern Medical Humanities and Bioethics Program, Spring 2011, back cover. "Constance Baker Motley," in The Yale Biographical Dictionary of American Law 293-294 (Yale University Press, 2009). “Cancer Survivors and Infertility: A Review of A New Problem and Novel Answers,” 4 Supporting Oncology 171-178 (2006) (with Carrie L. Nieman, Ralph Kazer, Robert E. Brannigan, et al). "A World Without Race: Does Black Nationalism Have to Go Too?," Boston Review, January/February 2006, pp. 33-35 (reviewing Paul Gilroy, Postcolonial Melancholia (Columbia University Press 2005)). “Children's Welfare and Children's Rights” and “Reproductive Rights Movement”, in Black Women in America, vol. 1, 220-227, vol. 3, 51-56 (Darlene Clark Hine, ed., Oxford University Press, 2nd ed. 2005). “Child Welfare” and “Foster Care,” Poverty in the United States: An Encyclopedia of History, Politics and Policy 164, 327 (Gwendolyn Mink & Alice O’Connor, eds., ABC-CLIO 2004). “Race, Class, and Care,” Boston Review 15-16 (April/May 2004) “Substance Abuse and Pregnancy,” Historical and Multicultural Encyclopedia of Women’s Reproductive Rights in the United States (Judith Baer, ed., Greenwood Press 2002). “Poverty and Welfare,” in Women’s Rights in Theory and Practice: Employment, Violence and Poverty (Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars 2002). “Commentary: The Paradox of Silence: Some Questions About Silence As Resistance,” 33 Michigan Journal of Law Reform 343; 5 Michigan Journal of Race and Law 927 (2000). “Dear Sisters, Dear Daughters,” in Dear Sisters, Dear Daughters: Words of Wisdom from Multicultural Attorneys Who’ve Been There and Done That 126 (Karen Clanton, ed., American Bar Association 2000). “Race, Reproduction, and Constitutional Law,” 5 Encyclopedia of the American Constitution 2096 (Leonard Levy, Kenneth Karst, & Adam Winkler eds., 2000).
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"Black Women and the Pill," 32 Family Planning Perspectives 92 (March/April 2000). “The Danger of Linking Abortion To Crime,” Hartford Courant, August 13, 1999, p. A15. “It’s All About Race: Vague Anti-Loitering Laws Target Minorities,” Chicago Tribune, June 18, 1999, commentary section, p. 31. “Racial Disparity in Reproductive Technologies,” Chicago Tribune, January 29, 1998, commentary section, p. 19. “Women’s Procreative Choices Are Not All Treated Equally,” Chicago Tribune, December 7, 1997, section 13, p.9. Roundtable Discussion, "Is Equal Access the Prescription for Equity?," Colloquium on Access to Health Care, 21 N.Y.U. Review of Law & Social Change 255 (1995). "The Unrealized Power of Mother," 5 Columbia Journal of Gender & Law 141 (1995). "Welfare: Yesterday and Today," 24 Contemporary Sociology 1 (1995) (book review). Book Review of Gregory M. Matoesian, Reproducing Rape: Domination Through Talk in the Courtroom, 44 Journal of Legal Education 462 (1994). "Norplant's Threat to Civil Liberties and Racial Justice," N.J.L.J., July 26, 1993, p. 21. "What's the Harm in Hate Speech and Bias Attacks?", NJLJ, April 26, 1993, p. 19. "Exploding the Myths Behind New Jersey Welfare Reform," N.J.L.J., Jan. 25, 1993, p. 21. "Victory for Jennifer Johnson, Lesson for New Jersey," N.J.L.J., Oct. 26, 1992, p. 20. "Casey and Rust: America's Two Abortion Laws," N.J.L.J., July 27, 1992, p. 18. "Drug Use During Pregnancy: The Dangers of a Punitive Response," Cocaine/Crack Research Working Group Newsletter, New York State Division of Substance Abuse Services, Oct. 1991. "Mother as Martyr," Essence Magazine, May 1991, p. 140, reprinted in 50 The Guild Practitioner 14 (1993) and Misdiagnosis: Women as a Disease 137 (Karen M. Hicks ed. 1994). "The Bias in Drug Arrests of Pregnant Women," N.Y. Times, Aug. 11, 1990, p. 25. "Drug-Addicted Women Who Have Babies," Trial, April 1990, p. 56.
Fellowships & Grants Trainer/Mentor, T32 HG009496-01, “The Penn Postdoctoral Training Program in the Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications of Genetics and Genomics,” Steven Joffe, PI, National Genome Research Institute, 2017-2020. Penn SAS Dean’s Integrative Global Inquiries Fund Award for Penn Program on Race, Science & Society (PRSS) “International Symposium on Race, Science, and Society from A Global Perspective,” 3/1/17 – 6/30/18. Penn Fels Policy Research Initiative Conference Grants for Penn PRSS “International Symposium on Race, Science, and Society from A Global Perspective,” 2017-2018. Penn Undergraduate Research Mentorship Grant, Summer 2017. Penn SAS Faculty Working Group Grant, for PRSS Faculty Working Group on Race, Science & Society, 2016-2017. Penn Fels Policy Research Initiative Collaborative Grant for PRSS “The Global Impacts of Race in Biomedicine,” Sarah Tishkoff, Co-PI, 2016-2017. American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship for project on “Interracial Marriage and Racial Equality in Chicago, 1937-1967,” 2015-2016. Penn Undergraduate Research Mentorship Grant, Summer 2016. Brocher Foundation Award, to support a workshop "Quantifying Race: How Politics, Economics, and Medical Myopia Drive Color-Coded Data," co-organized with Harriet Washington, Hermance, Switzerland, June 2015.
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Provost’s Excellence Through Diversity Fund Award, University of Pennsylvania, to support Program on Race, Science & Society, 2014-2015. Penn Undergraduate Research Mentorship Grant, Summer 2014. Faculty Working Group Grant, School of Arts & Sciences, University of Pennsylvania, to support Faculty Working Group on Race, Science & Society, 2013-2014. Faculty Fellowship, Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University, Sept. 1998-Aug. 2000; Sept. 2000-Aug. 2003; Sept. 2003-Aug. 2008; Sept. 2008-Aug 2012. Principal Investigator, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigator Award in Health Policy Research, “Race Consciousness in Biomedicine, Law and Social Policy,” March 2008-June 2012. Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation Scholar’s Award 00551869: “Legal and Political Approaches to Race Consciousness in Biotechnology Research,” June 2006-May 2008. Core faculty, Cells to Society (C2S): The Center on Social Disparities and Health, Lindsay Chase-Lansdale, PI, NICHD Developmental Infrastructure for Population Research Grant, 2006- 2011. Investigator, RO1D, The Oncofertility Consortium: Fertility Preservation for Women, Teresa Woodruff, PI, NIH Roadmap Interdisciplinary Research Consortia Grant, 2007-2012. Visiting Fellowship, Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, Stanford University, January-June 2008. Principal Investigator, grant, The Searle Fund, “High Rates of Child Welfare Agency Involvement in African-American Neighborhoods: The Impact on Community and Civic Life,” Sept. 2004-Dec. 2005. Fulbright Fellowship, Centre for Gender & Development Studies, University of the West Indies, Trinidad & Tobago, Sept. 2002-June 2003 Principal Investigator, two grants, Children and Family Research Center, “The Impact of Welfare Reform on Experiences of Families in Child Protective Services,” Jan. 1, 2000-June 30, 2001. Fellowship, Program in Ethics and The Professions, Harvard University, Sept. 1994-July 1995.
Other Honors & Awards “The 250 Most-Cited Legal Scholars of All Time,” TaxProf Blog (based on ScholarRank’s Top 250 Authors in HeinOnline), May 1, 2020 (ranked #136). 2019 Voice of Vision Award, New Voices for Reproductive Justice. Doctor of Laws, Rutgers University-Newark (honorary degree awarded 2019). Fellow, College of Physicians of Philadelphia (elected 2019). Member, National Academy of Medicine (elected 2017). 2018 A. Leo Levin Award for Excellence in an Introductory Course, Penn Law. 20 Most Cited Critical Theories of Law (Feminist and Critical Race) Scholars in the U.S. for the period 2013-2017, Brian Leiter’s Law School Reports, Oct. 12, 2018 (ranked #5). The Most Cited Women in American Legal Scholarship, 2013-2017, Balkinization, Aug. 25, 2018 (ranked #22). 2017 Mamie Clark and Kenneth B. Clark Distinguished Lecture Award, Columbia University. 2016 Lifetime Achievement Award, Society of Family Planning. 2016 Woman Inspiring Change, Harvard Law and International Development Society and Harvard Law Women’s Association.
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Member, Board of Directors of American Academy of Political and Social Science (elected to two terms), 2015-present. 2015 Solomon Carter Fuller Award, American Psychiatric Association, for “providing significant benefit to the quality of life for Black people.” 2014 James Brister Society Dr. Gloria Twine Chisum Award for Distinguished Faculty. Fellow (elected), The Hastings Center, 2011-present. 2011 Sage Award, Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley and the Chicago Commission on Human Relations Advisory Council on Women, for leadership in mentoring, workplace and community advocacy, and local and global human rights initiatives. 2010 Dorothy Ann and Clarence L. Ver Steeg Distinguished Research Fellowship (selected by Northwestern University Provost for excellence in research by a faculty member). 2009 Family Defender Award, The Family Defense Center. 2009 YWomen Leadership Award, YWCA Evanston/North Shore. 2008 Leadership Award, Personal PAC. 2007 Leadership Award, Chicago Legal Advocacy for Incarcerated Mothers. 2005 Outstanding Achievement of Cultural Competency in Child Maltreatment, Prevention, and Intervention Award, American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children, for Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfare. 2003 Research Award, Institute on Domestic Violence in the African American Community, for Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfare. Class of 2000 Outstanding First-Year Course Professor Award, Northwestern University School of Law. 1999 Freedom of Choice Award, Chicago Abortion Fund. 1998 Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights Book Award for Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty. 1998 Radcliffe Graduate Society Medal. Classes of 1992 and 1996 Faculty Graduation Speaker, Rutgers School of Law-Newark. Invited to deliver many endowed lectures, including the 1993 James Thomas Lecture, Yale; 1997 Allison Davis Lecture, Northwestern University; 2001 Edith House Lecture, University of Georgia; 2003 Yulee Lecture, George Washington University; 2005 Allison Davis Lecture, Williams College; 2007 McNamara Lecture, Fordham; 2008 Broun Lecture, University of North Carolina; 2009 Honorable Mario G. Olmos Law & Cultural Diversity Memorial Lecture, University of California, Berkeley; 2010 Dienard Memorial Lecture, University of Minnesota; 2014 Ida B. Wells Lecture, Spelman College; 2014 Henrietta Lacks Memorial Lecture, Johns Hopkins University; 2016 Tanner Lectures in Human Values, Harvard; 2017 Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Lecture, Yale; 2017 Mamie & Kenneth Clark Lecture, Columbia. 1984 Legal Aid Society Outstanding Volunteer Lawyer Award.
Selected Public and Academic Service
University of Pennsylvania Administrative Service Member, Internal Review Committee, Perelman School of Medicine, January 2020-present. Director, Penn Medicine and the Afterlives of Slavery Project, July 2019-present. Member, Working Group to Examine the Role of Slavery in Penn’s Early Years, appointed by President Amy Gutmann, January 2018-present.
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Member, Faculty Advisory Board, Quattrone Center for the Fair Administration of Justice, 2017-present. Member, SAS Faculty Working Group on Diversity, Inequality, and Human Well-being, 2015- 2017; 2019-present. Member, Committee on Student Life, Board of Trustees, 2016-2019. Member, Promotion and Tenure Committee, Law School, 2016-2017; 2019-2020. Member, Executive Committee, Sociology, 2013-2014; 2018-present. Member, Executive Committee, Africana Studies Center, 2016-present. Co-organizer, Symposium on the Penn and Slavery Project, April 2-4, 2019. Organizer, Symposium on “Ordering the Human: Global Science and Racial Reason,” Penn Program on Race, Science, and Society, April 12, 2018. Member, Health and Inequality Faculty Search Committee, Sociology, 2016-2017. Member, Law School Dean Search Consultative Committee, fall 2014. Member, Appointments Committee, Law School, 2013-2014. Member, Wharton Dean Search Consultative Committee, fall 2013. Member, Graduate Committee, Africana Studies, 2012-2014. Member, Personnel Committee, Sociology, 2012-2014. Member, SAS Strategic Planning Working Group on Science, Health, and Society 2013-2014. Organizer, Symposium on “The Future of Race and Science: Regression or Revolution?,” Program on Race, Science & Society, University of Pennsylvania, April 11, 2014.
Northwestern University Administrative Service Chair, Law School Dean Search Committee, October 2010-January 2011. Member, Executive Committee, Institute for Policy Research, 1999-2002; 2008-2012. Chair, Faculty Advisory Committee, Law School, 2006-2010. Member, Areas of Distinction Working Group, University Strategic Plan, 2010. Chair, Child, Adolescent, and Family Studies Program, Institute for Policy Research, 2004- 2012. Member, Dean’s Working Group (developed Plan 2008: Preparing Great Leaders for the Changing World), Law School, 2006-2008. Member, Founding Executive Committee, Cells to Society: The Center on Social Disparities and Health, Institute for Policy Research, 2004-2008. Member, Provost’s Higher Order of Excellence II Faculty Visioning Group, 2003-2004.
Other Administrative, Academic, & Public Service Member, Board of Directors of American Academy of Political and Social Science, 2015- present. Member, Board of Directors, National Coalition for Child Protection Reform, 1999-present. Member, Advisory Board, Center for Genetics & Society, 2012-present. Member, National Advisory Board, Still She Rises, 2016-present. Member, Standards Working Group, California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, 2008- present. Adviser to Restatement of the Law: Children and The Law Project, American Law Institute, 2015-2018. Chair, Board of Directors, Black Women’s Health Imperative, 2011-2015; member, 1999- 2016.
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Member, Advisory Board, Family Defense Center, 2007-2018. Member, Task Force on Pregnancy, Amnesty International, 2014-2015. Member, Board of Directors, Generations Ahead, 2008-2011 Member, Braam Oversight Panel, Washington State, 2004-2013. Member, Steering Committee, The Tarrytown Meetings, Center for Genetics & Society, 2010- 2012. Member, Editorial Board, Feminist Economics, 2011-2013. Member, Executive Committee, Project on “Gender, Sexuality, & The Implications for HIV/AIDS in the Caribbean,” University of the West Indies-St. Augustine, Trinidad & Tobago, 2002- 2012. Member, Race Matters Consortium on Child Welfare Policy, 2002-2012. Co-chair, Conference on “The Racial Geography of the Child Welfare System: Community Impact and Response,” Fordham University School of Law, spring 2006. Member, Working Group, National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH, "Colliding Categories: Haplotypes, Race, and Ethnicity," University of Minnesota, 2003-2004. Member, Organizing Committee, conference on "The Effects of Incarceration on Children and Families," Institute for Policy Research, 2000-2001. Member, Advisory Board, Chicago Companion to the Child, University of Chicago Press, 2003. Member, Advisory Board, Program on Reproductive Health and Rights, Open Society Institute, 1999-2002. Consultant, Robert Wood Johnson Substance Abuse Policy Research Program, “An Ethical and Legal Policy Analysis of State Compelled Loss of Liberty as an Intervention to Manage the Harm of Prenatal Substance Abuse and Drug Addiction,” 1997-1999. Member, Board of Directors, Public Interest Law Center of New Jersey, 1996-2004. Consultant, Center for Women Policy Studies, Washington, D.C., 1991-1993; 1996-2000. Member, Review Panel, National Institutes of Health, “Studies of the Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications of Research into Human Genetic Variation,” 1999. Manuscript reviewer for many publishers, including Oxford, Cambridge, Stanford, Columbia, Cornell, University of Chicago, University of California, Rutgers, NYU, Routledge, South End, American Sociological Review, Law & Social Inquiry, Sociological Perspectives, Signs, Feminist Studies, Nature Genetics, Science, Justice Quarterly.
Selected Lectures and Presentations
International (2000-2020) Panelist, “Regulating Mixed Intimacies in Europe,” Euromix Project, VU University, Amsterdam, September 19, 2019. “Why Birth Justice Matters,” Keynote Address, Black Mothers and Childbirth Conference, Black Women’s Health and Wellbeing Research Network, London, England, September 23, 2019. Panelist, "How the Child Protection System Contributes to Poverty and Child Neglect,” Law and Society Annual Meeting, Toronto, June 9, 2018. “How the U.S. Juvenile Justice System Harms Children: Reproducing Social Inequalities and Advocating for Change,” Global Forum on Juvenile Justice, Waseda University Law School, Tokyo, Japan, September 6, 2018.
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“The Bio-politics of Race and the Paradox of State Violence in the United States,” International Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Poznán, Poland, July 27, 2016. “Reproductive Justice as an Approach to Public Health,” Plenary on Caribbean Health and Sustainability, Caribbean Studies Association Annual Meeting, Port-au-Prince, Haiti, June 10, 2016. “Colonizing and Decolonizing Black Women’s Bodies,” Closing Keynote, Conference on “Controlling Sexuality and Reproduction, Past and Present,” University of Lethbridge, Canada, August 14, 2015. Opening remarks, Workshop on “Quantifying Race: How Politics, Economics, and Medical Myopia Drive Color-Coded Data,” Brocher Foundation, Hermance, Switzerland, June 15, 2015. “Critical Race Feminism,” Conference on Feminist Legal Theory in the United States and Asia: A Transpacific Dialogue,” Fudan University Law School, Shanghai, China, May 16, 2015. “Fatal Invention: The New Biopolitics of Race,” McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, October 23, 2014. “Loving v. Virginia and the Intersection of Family Law and Racial Justice in the United States,” International Society of Family Law World Conference, Recife, Brazil, August 8, 2014. “Fatal Invention: The New Biopolitics of Race in the United States,” University of Cusco, Cusco, Peru, August 20, 2013. “Child Protection as Surveillance in African American Communities,” Leverhulme Trust International Network on New Families, New Governance, Melbourne Law School, Melbourne, Australia, April 15, 2013. “The Intersection of Race and Gender Equality in the United States,” Transnational Program on Gender Equality in Society, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan, March 4, 2013. “Race, Reproduction, and the New Biocitizen,” Plenary Address, South African Sociological Association Annual Congress, Cape Town, South Africa, July 2, 2012. “Ethical and Legal Questions in the Emerging Field of Oncofertility,” International Expert Meeting on New Issues in Ethics and Oncology, University of Heidelberg, May 11, 2012. “Race, Genomic Science, and the Disciplinary Battle over the Meaning of Humanity,” Forum on Contemporary Theory XIV International Conference, Transcending Disciplinary Decadence: Exploring Challenges of Teaching, Scholarship, and Research in the Humanities and the Social Sciences, Jaipur, India, December 19, 2011. “Applying the Best Interests of the Child to Parents’ Decisions about Fertility Preservation,” University of Malaga School of Law, Malaga, Spain, June 15, 2011. “Tracing Racial Roots: Race and Identity in the Genomic Age,” University of the West Indies- Cave Hill, Barbados, May 3, 2011. “Is Race-based Medicine Good for Us?:African-American Approaches to Race, Biotechnology, and Equality,” panel on Human Rights, Biomedical Techniques and Ethno-Racial Identity, World Forum on Human Rights, Nantes, France, June 29, 2010. “The U.S. Welfare State’s Punishment of Black Childbearing and Care Giving,” Conference on An American Dilemma?: Race/Ethnicity and Welfare States in the U.S. and Nordic Countries, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark, October 2, 2009. “Race, Gender, and Genetic Technologies: A New Reproductive Dystopia?,” University of British Columbia School of Law and Department of Sociology, Vancouver, B.C., Canada, February 5, 2008. “Race, Gender and Child Welfare Policy under Neoliberalism,” Workshop on The Legal Tender of Gender: International Perspectives on Welfare Law, State Policies and the Regulation of Women’s Poverty, International Institute for the Sociology of Law, Onati, Spain, June 8, 2007.
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“Race, Population Control and Reprogenetics: Defining Reproductive Risks in the Neoliberal Age,” University of Kent, Kent, England, Nov. 25, 2006. “Race, Population Control and Reprogenetics in the Neoliberal Age,” Feminist Approaches to Bioethics Meeting, World Congress of Bioethics, Beijing, People’s Republic of China, Aug. 6, 2006. “Mothering, Race, and State Supervision of Children,” York University, Toronto, Canada, Oct. 21, 2005. “Population Control and Reprogenetics in U.S. Neoliberalism,” plenary session, 10th International Women & Health Meeting, New Delhi, India, September 24, 2005. “Racism and Human Rights,” The House of World Cultures, Berlin, Germany, Nov. 13, 2004. Discussant, “Transforming Caribbean Discourses on HIV/AIDS,” Caribbean Studies Association Annual Meeting, St. Kitts, June 2, 2004. “Family Planning Policy and Development Discourse in Trinidad & Tobago,” Caribbean Studies Association Annual Meeting, Belize City, Belize, May 27, 2003. "Women, Race, and Citizenship," International Law Association Regional Conference, Bridgetown, Barbados, March 29, 2003. "Freedom to Choose? Race, Gender, and Reproductive Freedom: US and Caribbean Perspectives," School of Law, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados, March 26, 2003. “Race, Gender, and the Meaning of Reproductive Freedom,” Centre for Gender and Development Studies, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago, Oct. 9, 2002. “Race, Genetics, and Reproductive Technologies,” conference on Gene Pool, Human Park, Leisure Body, Steirischer Herbst, Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria, Oct. 12, 2001. “Race and Reproductive Rights in Historical Perspective,” workshop on A Reproductive Health Bill of Rights for Women of Color, Institute for Women and Ethnic Studies, Geneva, Switzerland, April 11, 2000.
United States (2010-2020)
2015-2020
“Loving v. Virginia as A Civil Rights Decision,” University of Miami Law School Faculty Workshop, January 16, 2015. Keynote, “Voting Rights and Freedom,” Sadie Alexander Conference, Penn Law School, Philadelphia, PA, January 24, 2015. “Emancipation and the Meaning of Freedom,” program on The Great Emancipator and the Great Central Fair exhibit, Penn Libraries, University of Pennsylvania, January 29, 2015. “Historical, Sociological, and Legal Perspectives on U.S. Policies Intended To Prevent Ebola in the United States,” meeting of the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues, Washington, DC, February 5, 2015. “The New Biocitizenship: Genetic Technologies, Disability, and Social Inequality,” UCLA Disability Studies Program, Los Angeles, CA, February 19, 2015. “Fatal Invention: The New Biopolitics of Race,” UCLA Law School Critical Race Studies Program, Los Angeles, CA, February 19, 2015. “Sociology, Biology, and the Racial Politics of Border Crossing,” Eastern Sociological Society Annual Meeting, New York, NY, February 28, 2015.
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“Mistreating Health Inequities: Race, Medicine, and Justice,” Begando Lecture, University of Illinois-Chicago School of Medicine, March 11, 2015. “Fatal Invention: Why the Politics of Race and Science Still Matters,” Bowman Lecture, Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy, University of Illinois-Chicago, March 12, 2015. “Prison, Foster Care, and the Systemic Punishment of Black Mothers,” Center for Professional and Applied Ethics, University of North Carolina-Charlotte, March 31, 2015. “Treating Health Inequities from Slavery to Genomics,” Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, April 9, 2015. “The Biopolitics of Black Women’s Bodies,” Sojourner Truth Lecture, George Mason University, Alexandria, VA, April 14, 2015. Keynote, “Oppressive and Liberating Intersectionalities,” 9th Annual Graduate Student Conference, Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice, University of Delaware, April 17, 2015. Keynote, “Disciplining the Welfare Queen,” Conference on “Reframing the Welfare Queen: Work, Privacy and Reproductive Freedom,” University of Southern California, April 23, 2015. “Mistreating Health Inequities,” National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, May 8, 2015. Solomon Carter Fuller Award Lecture, American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting, Toronto, May 18, 2015. “The Biopolitics of Narrating Health and Justice,” Columbia University Oral History Program, June 25, 2015. “Housing, Social Justice, and Child Welfare,” New Jersey Family Reunification Day, Legal Services of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ, June 29, 2015. Keynote, The Future is Ferguson: Speculative Arts and Social Justice, Princeton, Sept. 14, 2015. “Mistreating Health Inequities,” Greenwall Fellows Meeting, Philadelphia, Oct. 5, 2015. “Prison, Foster Care, and the Systemic Punishment of Black Mothers,” UC-Irvine Criminology, Law, and Society; “Fatal Invention,” UC-Irvine Law School, Irvine, CA, November 2, 2015. “The New Biopolitics of Race, Health, and Human Rights, MIT, Cambridge, Nov. 5, 2015. “Interracial Marriage and Racial Equality: The Role of Segregated Housing,” Sullivan Lecture, Capital University School of Law, Nov, 12, 2015. “The Future of Race and Genomics: Regression or Revolution,” Genome Sciences & Policy, Duke University, Durham, NC, Nov. 30, 2015. “The Problem with Race-Based Medicine,” TEDMED Stage Program, Palm Springs, CA, Nov. 20, 2015. “Race Medicine: Mistreating Health Inequities from Slavery to Genomics,” Grand Rounds, Cooper University Hospital, Camden, NJ, Jan. 26, 2016. 2016 Black Alumni Stafford Ellison Wright Scholar-in-Residence Lecture, Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA, Feb. 2, 2016. Keynote, The Womanist Mystique: A Symposium on Scholarship and Activism, Princeton, Feb. 6, 2016. “What’s So Dangerous about Black Women’s Sexuality” and “Liberating Sexuality: Starting with Black Women,” Penn Humanities Forum and Alice Paul Center for Research on Gender, Sexuality, and Women, University of Pennsylvania, Feb. 17 and 24, 2016. “Mistreating Health Inequities: Race, Medicine, and Justice,” Drummond Lecture, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, Feb. 26, 2016.
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“Interracial Marriage and Racial Equality: The Role of Residential Segregation,” Tulane Law School, New Orleans, Feb. 29, 2016. “Interracial Marriage and Racial Equality: The Role of Residential Segregation,” University of Florida Levin School of Law, Gainesville, March 14, 2016. “Prison, Foster Care, and the Systemic Punishment of Black Women and Children,” Weyrauch Distinguished Lecture on Family Law, University of Florida, Gainesville, March 15, 2016. “Race, Health, and Justice in the Genomic Age,” American Association for Dental Research Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, March 19, 2016. Keynote, “Why Baby Markets Aren't Free,” Baby Markets Congress, UC-Irvine Law School, April 1, 2016. “Interracial Marriage and Racial Equality: The Role of Residential Segregation,” University of Cincinnati Sociology Department, April 8, 2016. “The New Biopolitics of Race, Genes, and Justice,” Taft Lecture, University of Cincinnati Sociology Department, April 8, 2016. “Interracial Marriage and Racial Equality: The Role of Residential Segregation,” Critical Race Theory Workshop, Columbia Law School, April 12, 2016. “Crossing the Color Line: Interracial Marriage and Residential Segregation in Chicago, 1930- 1960,” UC-San Diego, April 28, 2016. “Crossing the Color Line: Interracial Marriage and Residential Segregation in Chicago, 1930- 1960,” Russell Sage Foundation, New York, NY, May 4, 2016. “Why Black Women and Reproductive Justice Matter,” Harvard School of Public Health, Cambridge, MA, May 5, 2016. “Whose Conception of Human Flourishing,” Workshop on gene editing and human flourishing, Hastings Center, Garrison, NY, May 16, 2016. ‘How U.S. Law Supports White Supremacist and Settler Colonial Child Welfare Displacement,” Native American and Indigenous Studies Association Meeting, Honolulu, May 21, 2016. “The Biopolitics of Race and Paradox of State Violence” and Author Meets Reader, Marie Gottaschalk, Caught, Law & Society Annual Meeting, New Orleans, June 4 & 5, 2016. “Interracial Marriage and Racial Equality in Chicago, 1937-1967,” Penn Law Faculty Workshop, June 28, 2016. Author Meets Reader panel, Alexis Harris, A Pound of Flesh, American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Seattle, August 22, 2016. Keynote, “Gender, Race, and Dangerous Mothers in the Old and New Bioscience,” Association for Feminist Epistemologies, Methodologies, Metaphysics, and Science Studies, Notre Dame, October 3, 2016. “The Racial Gap in Maternal Mortality: Why Reproductive Justice Matters,” MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics, University of Chicago, October 5, 2016. Keynote, “Why Black Sociologists Matter to the Old and New Biosocial Science,” Association of Black Sociologists Annual Meeting, Memphis, October 6, 2016. “Asking the Right Questions,” BIOSS Working Group meeting, Russell Sage Foundation, Chicago, October 7, 2016. “Should Researchers Use Race to Report Human Genetic Variation,” NGHRI/NIMHD workshop, NIH, Bethesda, MD, October 24, 2016. “The Ethics of Biosocial Science,” Tanner Lectures on Human Values, Harvard, Nov. 2&3, 2016.
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“Family Planning and Reproductive Justice,” North American Forum on Family Planning, Denver, Nov. 6, 2016. “The New Biopolitics of Race, Health, and Justice,” Global Health Colloquium, Princeton, November 11, 2016. “Democratizing Criminal Justice as an Abolitionist Project,” Northwestern Law School, Nov. 18, 2016. Panelist, “Race-Reproductivities,” American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, Nov. 20, 2016. Keynote, Symposium on “Critical Race Theory and Health Sciences,” Boston University School of Law, Jan. 20, 2017. “Killing the Black Body,” Strand Bookstore, New York, NY, Feb. 21, 2017. “The Problem with Race-based Medicine,” University of Virginia School of Medicine, Feb. 17, 2017. “Mistreating Health Inequities in the Genomic Age,” Levine Cancer Center, Charlotte, NC, Feb, 24, 2017. “Fatal Invention,” Penn Alumni Reading Club, Feb. 28, 2017. “Shades of Shackles: Black Women, Incarceration, and Reproductive Justice,” Paul Robeson Cultural Center, Rutgers-New Brunswick, March 2, 2017. Panelist, Program on “Reproductive Rights in Historical Context,” New York Historical Society, March 5, 2017. “Henrietta Lacks and the Future of Race, Science, and Justice,” University of Missouri School of Law, Columbia, MO, March 6, 2017. “Mistreating Health Inequities in the Genomic Age,” University of Texas-Austin Department of Sociology and School of Medicine, March 7, 2017. Discussant, Ange-Marie Hancock, “America, Your Free Speech Update Is Ready,” Penn Program on Democracy Citizenship and Constitutionalism,” March 16, 2017. “Killing the Black Body: Twenty Years of Reproductive Violence and Justice,” North Carolina State University Women’s Center, Raleigh, NC, March 23, 2017. “Killing the Black Body,” Revolution Books, New York, NY, March 30, 2017. “Killing the Black Body,” Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA, April 4, 2017. “Killing the Black Body Redux: Twenty Years of Reproductive Violence and Justice,” Minx Auerbach Lecture, Women’s and Gender Studies, University of Louisville, April 6, 2017. “Scientific Delusions About Race,” Mamie Clark and Kenneth B. Clark Distinguished Lecture, Columbia University, April 13, 2017. Keynote, “Why Reproductive Justice Matters,” Conference on “Moving Forward: Protecting and Promoting Reproductive Health,” Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Penn Medicine, April 19, 2017. “Prisons, Foster Care, and the Systemic Punishment of Black Mothers,” University of Connecticut School of Law, Hartford, CT, April 26, 2017. “Killing the Black Body: A Retrospective,” Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Lecture, Department of African American Studies, Yale, New Haven, CT, April 27, 2017. Critique of the Neuroscience of Poverty, Symbioses: Biosocial Research Network meeting, The New School, NYC, June 6, 2017. “The Problem with Race-based Medicine,” Penn Trustees Luncheon, June 15, 2017. “What’s Race Got To Do with Medicine?,” Diversity Lecture Series, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, June 20, 2017.
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Alondra Nelson’s The Social Life of DNA, Author Meets Critic panel, American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Montreal, Canada, August 15, 2017. Keynote, Why Birth Justice Matters to Reproductive Justice,” Decolonize Birth Conference, September 24, 2017. “Leveraging Legal and Critical Race Theory Interventions,” Cobb Institute, University of Connecticut, October 7, 2017. “Criminal Law as Racial Violence: An Abolitionist Approach,” Under the Gun Conference, Penn Africana Studies Department, October 19, 2017. Conversation with Brent Staples on Loving v. Virginia, New York Historical Society, October 24, 2017. “The Role of Reproductive Justice in Promoting Health Equity,” American Public Health Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, November 8, 2017. “Interracial Marriage in Chicago, 1937-1967: The Book Project,” Northwestern University Sociology Colloquium, Evanston, IL, November 9, 2017. Participant, Abolitionist Feminisms Roundtable, Critical Prison Studies Caucus, American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, November 11, 2017. “Racism and The New Racial Science,” ISS Annual Lecture, Cornell University, Nov. 16, 2017. “Killing the Black Body Twenty Years Later,” Celebration of Killing the Black Body Twentieth Anniversary, Columbia University, November 20, 2017. “The Problem with Race-Based Medicine,” Sadoff Lecture, College of Physicians, Philadelphia, December 5, 2017. “Why Midwives Matter to Reproductive Justice,” Penn Nursing School Midwifery Program Graduation Ceremony, December 9, 2017. “The Most Shocking and Inhumane Inequality,” 35th Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Scholarship Breakfast,” Rowan University, January 15, 2018. “What’s Race Got to Do with Medicine?”, University of Vermont Medical School, January 17, 2018. “Reparations Now,”37th Annual Edward Sparer Symposium, Penn Law, January 19, 2018. “Fatal Invention: Re-creating Race in the Genomic Era,” University of Massachusetts- Amherst, February 22, 2018. “Reproductive Justice: Where We’ve Been, Where We Have to Go,” Abortion Care Network Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, March 5, 2018. “Fatal Invention: Re-creating Race in the Genomic Era,” Dominican University, March 17, 2018. “Killing the Black Body: Twenty Years Later,” Mansfield Lecture, Roosevelt University, Chicago, IL. March 29, 2018. “The Most Shocking and Inhumane Inequality: Thinking Structurally About Persistent Poverty and Racial Health Inequities,” MLK50 Symposium, University of Memphis, April 2, 2018. “The Role of Race in Scientific Research and Medicine,” James Brister Society 25th Annual Meeting, April 7, 2018. “Introductory Remarks,” Symposium on Ordering the Human: Global Science and Racial Reason, Penn Program on Race, Science, and Society, April 12, 2018. “Mistreating Health Inequities in the Genomic Age,” Kimmel Medical Center, Thomas Jefferson University, April 24, 2018. Closing Keynote, Association of Black Sociologists Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, August 10, 2018.
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Chair and discussant, “Feeling Race in Our Genes,” American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, August 14, 2018. “Does Race Exist: Exploring The Future of Genetics, Ancestry, and Medicine,” The Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, PA, September 12, 2018. “Mistreating Health Inequities in the Genomic Age,” Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis, MO, September 13, 2018. “Why Intersectionality Matters Now,” Keynote conversation with Kimberlé Crenshaw, HLS65, Harvard Law School, September 14, 2018. “Killing the Black Body: The Urgency of Reproductive Justice,” Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, September 25, 2018. Moderator, “A Conversation between Anita Hill and Kimberlé Crenshaw: Sexual Harassment from Congressional Testimony to the #MeToo Movement,” University of Pennsylvania, Oct. 10, 2018. “Fatal Invention: Racism and the New Racial Science,” Macalester College, St. Paul, MINN, October 11, 2018. “Mistreating Health Inequities in the Genomic Age,” Connecticut Hospital Association Health Equity Symposium, October 16, 2018. Discussant, “Black Women’s Reproductive Health,” American Public Health Association Annual Meeting, San Diego, Nov. 13, 2018. “Race, Racism, and the New Racial Science,” University of Maryland-Baltimore County, Nov. 14, 2018. “Race, Racism, and the New Racial Science,” Yale Law School, Nov. 29, 2018. “Mistreating Health Disparities in the Genomic Age,” Dillard Lecture, Yale Medical School, Nov. 29, 2018. “The Problem with Race-based Medicine,” Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, Jan. 17, 2019. “Race, Medicine, and Justice,” Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Jan. 24, 2019. “Race, Science, and Justice,” George Abel and Mathilde Schwab Dreyfous Lecture, Tulane Law School, Feb. 7, 2019. Panelist, “Transcending Racial Boundaries in Human Genetic Research,” American Association for the Advancement of Science Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, Feb. 16, 2019. “Killing the Black Body Revisited in the Era of Black Lives Matter,” Arizona State University, Feb. 21, 2019. “Race, Science, and Justice,” UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, March 6, 2019. Opening roundtable & moderator, panel on Slavery and Medicine, Symposium on Penn and Slavery, April 2-4, 2019. “Mistreating Health Inequities in the Genomic Age,” Keynote, Health Equity Week, Perelman School of Medicine, April 5, 2019. “Digitizing the Carceral State,” Harvard Law Review Abolition Symposium, April 11, 2019. “The Problem with Race-Based Medicine,” Betsy Wood Knapp ’64 Lecture, Wellesley College, April 30, 2019. “Reproductive Justice: The Way Forward,” Keynote, NARAL-North Carolina, May 15, 2019. “Why Midwives Matter to Reproductive Justice,” Keynote, American Academy of Nurse Midwives Annual Meeting, May 19, 2019. “Imagine New Suns,” Commencement Address, Rutgers University-Newark, May 22, 2019.
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“Mistreating Health Inequities in the Genomic Age: The Need for Reproductive Justice and Structural Competency,” Obgyn Grand Rounds, UC-San Francisco Hospital, June 4, 2019. “Medicine, Prediction, and the Biological Concept of Race,” Simon Institute, University of California-Berkeley, June 5, 2019. University of Pennsylvania Hospital, Neurology Grand Rounds, June 26, 2019. “Race, Social Science, and Legal Activism: Framing the Issues, American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, NYC, August 12, 2019. “Abolition Constitutionalism, Penn Law Faculty Colloquium, September 10, 2019. “Race, Science, and Justice,” Frank G. and Jean M. Chesley Lecture, Carleton College, Northfield, MN, October 1, 2019. “Mistreating Health Inequities in the Genomic Age,” Keynote Address, Race, Health, and Justice Symposium, University of Washington, October 11, 2019. “Race, Medicine, and Justice,” Keynote Address, Diversity and Health Care Symposium, Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ, October 21, 2019. “Intersectionality and The Law,” Conversation with Kimberlé Crenshaw, Penn Law, October 22, 2019. “Race, Public Health, and Justice,” Keynote Address, Society for the Analysis of African American Public Health Issues (SAAPHI) Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, November 2, 2019. Panelist and featured speaker, American Public Health Association Annual Meeting, November 5, 2019. “Reproductive Rights and Justice,” Trustees Council of Women, University of Pennsylvania, November 8, 2019. “Race, Science, and Justice, Texas A&M Global Health Humanities Initiative, Nov. 14, 2019. “Mistreating Health Inequities in the Genomic Age,” Rice University Center for Humanities Research, November 15, 2019. “Abolition Constitutionalism,” Harvard Law Review Supreme Court Foreword Forum, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA, November 18, 2019. “Race, Gender, Medicine & Justice,” Drexel Medical School, December 4, 2019. “Dr. King’s Vision of Health and Justice,” MLK Lecture, Emory Law School, January 23, 2020. “Thinking Structurally about Racism and Health in the Genomic Age,” American Psychoanalytic Association Meeting, NYC, February 14, 2020. “Thinking Ethically and Structurally about Race and Racism,” National Academies of Science, February 26, 2020. “Foster Care Abolition,” Eastern Sociological Society, Philadelphia, February 28, 2020. “Introduction,” Panel on Modern Efforts to Implement Reparations, and “Reflections on Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander,” Penn BLSA Annual Sadie Alexander Conference and Gala, February 29, 2020. “Abolition Constitutionalism,” Owen J. Roberts Lecture, Penn Law, March 3, 2020. “Abolition Constitutionalism,” Henry J. Miller Distinguished Lecture, Georgia State University Law School, March 5, 2020. “Abolition Constitutionalism,” Harvard Law School Public Law Workshop (via Zoom), March 11, 2020. “Race, Genomics, and Polygenic Risk Scores: The Social Issues,” NHGRI Annual Research Training and Career Development Meeting (via Zoom), March 31, 2020.
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2010-2014
Keynote, “The New Biopolitics of Race and Health,” Martin Luther King Day Reflection and Commemoration, DePaul Law School, January 18, 2010. “What’s Wrong with Race-Based Medicine?: Genes, Drugs, and Health Disparities,” 2010 Dienard Memorial Lecture on Law & Medicine, University of Minnesota Consortium on Law, Health & the Life Sciences, February 3, 2010. “Reproductive Justice and the New Biopolitics of Race,” International Women’s Day Lecture, Northeastern Illinois University, March 8, 2010. Panelist, “Who Owns Your Body?,” discussion with Rebecca Skloot of “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks,” Center for Bioethics, Science and Society, Northwestern University, March 10, 2010. “Race, Gender, Disability and Genetic Technologies,” Closing Plenary, Political Intersectionality: Disrupting Hierarchies and Transforming Movements, 4th Annual Critical Race Studies Symposium, UCLA Law School, March 13, 2010. “Race and the New Biocitizen,” Distinguished Visiting Lecture Series, University of Baltimore School of Law, March 26, 2010. “Race and the New Biocitizen,” Emory Diversity Lecture, Emory University, March 29, 2010. “Dependency and New Paradigms of Racialization,” American Association of Law Schools Mid-year Meeting, New York, NY, June 9, 2010. Keynote, “Understanding Racial Disproportionality and Racial Disparities in the 21st Century,” Oregon Commission on Children and Families, Casey Family Programs, Governor’s Child Welfare Equity Task Force, Black Parent Initiative, Inc., Portland, OR, June 21, 2010. Plenary, “Race and the New Biocitizen,” Conference on Beyond Therapy: Exploring Enhancement and Human Futures,” The Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity, Trinity International University, July 16, 2010. Plenary, “Society and Politics” & “Race, Gender and Genetic Technologies,” The Tarrytown Meetings, Center for Genetics & Society, Tarrytown, NY, July 27 & 28, 2010. “The New Biopolitics of Race and Health,” Suffolk University School of Law, Sept. 13, 2010. Keynote, “The New Biopolitics of Race and Health,” Clifford Symposium: “Beyond RX: Global Health,” Middlebury College, September 24, 2010. Plenary, “From Morality to Public Policy,” Open Hearts, Open Minds and Fair Minded Words: A Conference on Life and Choice in the Abortion Debate, Princeton, October 16, 2010. “Collateral Consequences and the New Biopolitics of Race,” Seventh Annual Wiley A. Branton/Howard Law Journal Symposium, Collateral Consequences: Who Really Pays the Price for Criminal Justice?, October 29, 2010. Panelist, “RX for the FDA,” Emerging Paradigms in Critical Mixed Race Studies,” DePaul University, November 5, 2010. Presidential Roundtable Discussion: Gender, Power, Politics, Social Science History Association Annual Conference, Chicago, November 19, 2010. “The Biopolitics of Race and Health,” Johns Hopkins University, Nov. 22, 2010. “The Politics of Racial Disproportionality,” Conference on Race and Child Welfare, Harvard Law School Child Advocacy Project, Jan. 28, 2011. “Race and the New Biocitizen,” University of Florida College of Law, February 18, 2011.
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“HIV/AIDS and the Tension in Race-conscious Policies,” Public Forum on Race, HIV, and The Obama Administration, University of California-Berkeley School of Law, March 4, 2011. “The Social, Economic, and Political Context of Fertility Preservation,” DePaul Law School, March 11, 2011. “Race, Prison, and Foster Care: The Systemic Punishment of Black Mothers,” UCLA Law School, April 6, 2011. Keynote, “Race, Gender, and Biopolitics in the Genomic Age,” Carter G. Woodson Institution, 30th Anniversary Symposium, University of Virginia, April 7, 2011. “High Tech Reproduction, Social Inequality, and the New Biocitizen,” panel on Social Control of Women’s Bodies, Law & Society Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, June 2, 2011. “Reproductive Justice: What It Means and Why It Matters,” Section of Family Planning & Contraceptive Research, Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, University of Chicago Medical School, June 23, 2011. “The Racial Geography of Child Welfare: Exploring the Paradox,” Institute for Policy Research and Sciences Po (Paris), Northwestern University, June 24, 2011. “A Reproductive Justice Approach to Genetic Technologies,” Plenary Talk, SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective Annual Conference, Miami, FL, July 15, 2011. “Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century,” Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, D.C., July 22, 2011. “What’s the Harm in Human Biotechnologies?” Closing Plenary, Second Annual Tarrytown Meeting, Center for Genetics & Society, Tarrytown, NY, July 27, 2011. “The Politics of Racial Disproportionality,” Conference on Dismantling Structural Racism, TimeBanks USA, Brown University, August 4, 2011. “Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century,” Center for Genetics & Society and Generations Ahead, Berkeley, CA, September 20, 2011; Center for Genetics & Society, Ms. Foundation, and Feminist Majority, Beverly Hills, CA, September 22, 2011. “Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century,” NYU Sociology Department, October 2, 2011.
“Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century,” Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigators in Health Policy Research Annual Meeting, Princeton, NJ, October 13, 2011. “Race and the New Biocitizen,” Hull Lecture, Department of Feminist Studies and Multicultural Center, University of California-Santa Barbara, October 18, 2011. “Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century,” Albany Law School, Russell Sage College, and Albany Public Library, October 20-22, 2011. “The Politics of Racial Disproportionality,” Fauri Conference on The Color of Children in the Child Welfare System, University of Michigan School of Social Work, November 11, 2011. “Racial Profiling in Biomedical Research,” NIH Bioethics Seminar, Bethesda, MD, November 16, 2011. “Race, Gender, and Genetic Technologies,” Presidential panel on “Reproducing citizenship, nations, and states: Biopolitics of gender, race, generations, and species,” Social Science History Association Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, November 18, 2011. Panelist, “The Human Genome and Human Health: Will the Promise Be Fulfilled?” Council on Responsible Genetics and American Museum of Natural History, New York, November 30, 2011.
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“Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century,” Illinois Humanities Council, Chicago Cultural Center, December 14, 2011. “Race, Prison, and Foster Care: The Systemic Punishment of Black Mothers,” UCLA Law Review Symposium, “Overpoliced and Underprotected,” January 27, 2012. “Race, Gender, and the New Biocitizen,” Jessie Daniel Ames Lecture, Southwestern University, Austin, TX, February 7, 2012. “Lessons from the BiDil Story,” program on “Race in Medicine: A Dangerous Prescription,” Multiracial Americans of Southern California, UCLA Mixed Student Union, UCLA Office of Residential Life, UCLA, February 11, 2012. “Fatal Invention: The New Biopolitics of Race and Health,” Marion Thompson Wright Lecture Series, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ, February 18, 2012. “A 15th Anniversary Edition of Killing the Black Body,” Session on the 15th Anniversary of Killing the Black Body, Eastern Sociological Society Annual Meeting, New York, NY, Feb. 24, 2012. “Fatal Invention,” book discussion sponsored by Institute for Policy Research and YWCA Evanston/North Shore, Evanston, IL, February 29, 2012. “Race, Gender, and the New Biocitizen,” Oberlin College, March 15, 2012. “A New Vision for Race in Science and Biotechnology,” Transforming Race Conference, Kirwan Institute, Ohio State University, March 16, 2012. “Fatal Invention,” University of Texas-San Antonio, March 21, 2012. “Fatal Invention: Re-creating Race in the Twenty-first Century, Hamilton College, April 18, 2012. “Race and the New Biocitizen,” Keynote, Race & Gender, State & Capital: A Symposium on the Work of Dorothy Roberts, University of California-Irvine, May 4, 2012. “Current Controversies in Child Welfare Policy,” 19th Annual Children’s Justice Conference, Washington State Department of Social & Health Services, May 15, 2012. Author Meets Reader Panel on “Fatal Invention,” Law & Society Meeting, Honolulu, HI, June 8, 2012. “Biopolitical Autobiography,” Opening Plenary; “From Access to Racial Justice,” Working Session on Community Advocacy and Participation, The Tarrytown Meetings III, Center for Genetics & Society, Tarrytown, NY, July 23-24, 2012. “Fatal Invention: The New Use of Biological Race in Medicine and Health Disparities Research,” Grand Rounds, Stroger Hospital, August 7, 2012. Luncheon Keynote Address, “Domestic Violence in the Black Community: Unpacking the Significance of Our Diversity,” Institute on Domestic Violence in the African American Community, Norfolk, VA, August 13, 2012. “Oncofertility and the Supreme Court: When Fertility Preservation Meets Posthumous Procreation,” 2012 Oncofertility Conference: Dialogues in Oncofertility, Northwestern University Oncofertility Consortium, September 28, 2012. “The Danger of Biological Theories of Racial Difference,” Panel on “From Skulls to Scans: How Brain Measurements Have Been Used, Misused and Misunderstood in the Study of Racial Differences,” Center for Neuroscience and Society, University of Pennsylvania, October 4, 2013. “The New Biopolitics of Race and Health,” Sarah Lawrence College, October 11, 2013. “Fatal Invention: Why Policy Makers Should Care,” Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Investigators’ Meeting, Princeton, NY, October 12, 2012. “Race, Gender, and The New Biocitizen,” Barnard College, New York, NY, Oct. 15, 2012.
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“Fatal Invention: The New Biopolitics of Race,” James Baldwin Lecture, Adelphi University, Garden City, NY, October 24, 2012. “Race, Genetics, and the Meaning of Kinship,” McDowell Conference on Philosophy and The Family, American University, Washington, DC, October 26, 2012. “Fatal Invention: The New Biopolitics of Race,” Chancellor’s Lecture, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, October 30, 2012. “The New Biopolitics of Race in America: Why Care?,” Higginbotham Lecture, Africana Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania, November 13, 2012. “The New Biopolitics of Race and Medicine,” Panel on “Dimensions of Empire and Resistance: Medicine and Markets,” American Studies Association Annual Meeting, San Juan, Puerto Rico, November 17, 2012. “The Racial Geography of Child Welfare,” Winter 2012 Community Symposium, Field Center for Children’s Policy, Practice and Research, University of Pennsylvania, November 28, 2012. “Fatal Invention: Re-creating Race in the Genomic Age,” Engaging Minds, Penn Alumni Relations, New York, NY, December 1, 2012. “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks: Exploring Legal, Ethical, and Diversity Issues in Research,” Children’s Hospital of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, December 11, 2012. “The Legacy of Sadie Alexander: Looking Back and Moving Forward,” Keynote, 25th Annual Sadie Alexander Commemorative Conference, Penn Law School, Philadelphia, PA, January 26, 2013. “A Transdisciplinary Paradigm for Race, Science, and Law,” Levy Scholars and Silverman- Rodin Scholars Luncheon, Penn Law School, January 30, 2013. “The Paradox of Silence and Display: Overcoming Contradictions in Black Women’s Sexuality,” Keynote, Black History Conference, Luther College, Decorah, IA, February 6, 2013. “Fatal Invention: Re-creating Race in the Genomic Age,” Thought Leader Series, Wharton Executive Education, University of Pennsylvania, February 12, 2013. “Fatal Invention: The New Use of Biological Race in Medical and Health Disparities Research,” Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, February 14, 2013. “Lessons of the Henrietta Lacks Story: Bioethics and Social Justice,” Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ, February 19, 2013. “Racial Disproportionality: What’s The Problem and What’s The Solution?,” Leadership Forum, New York Administration for Children’s Services, New York, NY, February 22, 2013. “Fatal Invention: The New Biopolitics of Race and Science,” Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, February 28, 2013. “Race, Biotechnology, and Law: Toward a Biopolitical and Transdisciplinary Paradigm,” Faculty Workshop, Department of History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, March 11, 2013. Speaker, “Does Hyde Matter?: Black Women and the Reproductive Justice Movement,” Black Women’s Health Imperative, Washington, DC, March 15, 2013. “Fatal Invention and Killing the Black Body: Still Killing in the 21st Century,” Keynote, Conference on Speculative Visions: Race, Technology, Science, and Survival, Center on Race and Gender, University of California-Berkeley, March 16, 2013. “Race, Science and Society: Toward a Transdisciplinary Paradigm,” Keynote, Fontaine Society Annual Dinner, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, March 22, 2013. “From Reproductive Choice to Reproductive Justice,” Ethical Humanist Society of Philadelphia, March 24, 2013.
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“Race and Reproduction: An Evolving Landscape,” Workshop on “Pregnancy, Fertility, and Parenting After Roe: A Fresh Look,” Penn Law School, March 27, 2013. “The New Biopolitics of Race, Crime, and Justice,” Mansfield Lecture, Roosevelt University, March 28, 2013. “Fatal Invention: Re-creating Race in the Twenty-first Century,” Ethical Humanist Society of Chicago, March 31, 2013. Career Narrative/Scholarship Autobiography, Faculty Affairs and Professional Development, Minority Faculty Development Program, Perelman School of Medicine, April 2, 2013. “Fatal Invention: Re-creating Race in the 21st Century,” Theme Semester, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, April 4, 2013. “Re-creating Race in the Genomic Age,” and “Why Care?,” The Havens Center Visiting Scholar Program, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, April 23 and 24, 2013. “Reproductive Justice: What It Means and Why It Matters,” and “Fatal Invention: Re-creating Race in the Genomic Age,” DePaul University, April 25, 2013. “Loving v. Virginia as A Civil Rights Decision,” Symposium on “Remembering the Dream, Renewing the Dream,” New York Law School, New York, NY, September 13, 2013. “Understanding How Racism Is Embodied: Why It Matters to Medicine,” University of Texas- Austin, September 23, 2013. “Fatal Invention: The New Biopolitics of Race,” Cornell Law School, October 11, 2013. “Race, Gender, and Reproductive Technologies: The New Biopolitics,” Center for Ethics, Muhlenberg College, October 29, 2013. “Fatal Invention: The New Biopolitics of Race,” Purdue University, November 5, 2013. “The New Biopolitics of Race, Gender, and Reproductive Bodies,” University of Illinois, November 6, 2013. “Interracial Marriage and the Civil Rights Revolution: A Personal Journey,” Provost’s Diversity Lecture, University of Pennsylvania, November 13, 2013. “Race Medicine: Treating Health Inequities from Slavery to the Genomic Age,” Brown University, December 10, 2013. “The New Biopolitics of Health Inequities,” Race in the Academy Lecture, Penn Graduate School of Education, January 30, 2014. “The Future of Reproductive Justice,” Institute for Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies, Georgia State University, February 10, 2014. “Race and the Paradox of State Violence,” Violent Means Symposium, Penn Humanities Forum, February 14, 2014. “The New Biopolitics of Race, Health, & Justice,” Keynote, Symposium on “Advancing Health Through A Racial Lens,” University of Maryland-College Park, February 20, 2014. “Racism and the Paradox of State Violence,” Pacific Lutheran University, Feb. 21, 2014. “The Place of Black Feminism,” Keynote, Symposium on Critical Feminist Thought and the African Diaspora, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, February 28, 2014. “The New Biopolitics of Race and Public Health,” Johns Hopkins Urban Health Institute, March 6, 2014. “Fatal Invention: The New Biopolitics of Race and Gender,” University of California-Berkeley Ethnic Studies, March 7, 2014. “Why Racial Equity Still Matters,” Conference on Disproportionate Minority Representation, Bronx Family Court, New York Law School, March 14, 2014.
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“Race and the New Biocitizen,” Morris Zeltzerman Lecture, University of Vermont, March 27, 2014. “Fatal Invention: Re-creating Race in the Genomic Age,” Breakfast Keynote, Blackboard Jungle Conference, University of Vermont, March 28, 2014. “The Future of Reproductive Justice,” Carr Center for Reproductive Justice, NYU Law School, April 1, 2014. “The Biopolitics of Black Women’s Bodies,” Ida B. Wells Barnett Distinguished Lecture, Spelman College, April 8, 2014. “Introduction,” Symposium on “The Future of Race and Science: Regression or Revolution?,” Program on Race, Science & Society, University of Pennsylvania, April 11, 2014. Speaker, “Our Genes, Ourselves: What Can DNA Tell Us?,” American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY, April 23, 2014. “The Future of Reproductive Justice,” San Diego State University, April 24, 2014. “Loving v. Virginia as a Civil Rights Decision,” 20th Annual Distinguished Lecture, Center for African American Studies, Wesleyan, April 29, 2014. “Loving v. Virginia as a Civil Rights Decision,” American Studies Workshop, Princeton University, May 5, 2014. Panelist, Feminist and Legal Theory Roundtable, Law & Society Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN, May 30, 2014. Keynote, “The New Biopolitics of Black Women’s Health,” Black Women’s Health Conference, Tulane University, New Orleans, June 14, 2014. “Black Mothers, Child Welfare and Prisons: The Need for Restorative Justice,” Conference on Restorative Justice, Responsible Regulation, and Complex Problems, University of Vermont, July 15, 2014. Opening Address, Celebration of Troy Duster, University of California-Berkeley, August 15, 2014. “Civil Rights and the New Biopolitics of Race,” Session on 50th Anniversary of the Civil Rights Act, American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, August 16, 2014. “Loving v. Virginia as a Civil Rights Decision,” Public Law Workshop, University of Minnesota Law School, September 15, 2014. “The Future of Race, Science, and Justice,” Henrietta Lacks Memorial Lecture, Johns Hopkins University, October 11, 2014. “The Continuing Debate on the Medicaid Sterilization Consent Policy: The Advocacy Community’s Perspective,” North American Forum on Family Planning Annual Meeting, Miami, October 13, 2014. “Why Midwives Matter to Reproductive Justice,” Midwives Alliance of North America Annual Meeting, St. Louis, October 25, 2014. “Race Medicine: Treating Health Inequities from Slavery to Genomics,” David Hume Lecture, University of New England, Biddeford, Maine, November 3, 2014. “Sex Panics, Dangerous Pairings, and Moral Rhetorics of Pleasure and Pain,” American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, November 9, 2014. “Loving v. Virginia as a Civil Rights Decision, Temple Law School Workshop, Philadelphia, November 13, 2014. Keynote, “Mistreating Health Inequities: The New Biopolitics of Race, Health, and Justice,” Physicians for a National Health Program Annual Meeting, New Orleans, November 15, 2014.
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“The Future of Race in Science: Regression or Revolution,” American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., December 6, 2014.
TEDTalk: “The Problem with Race-based Medicine,” https://www.ted.com/talks/dorothy_roberts_the_problem_with_race_based_medicine
Selected Documentary Film Interviews “The State of Eugenics,” Dawn Sinclair Shapiro, director, 2016. HistoryMakers, Julianna Richardson, producer, 2010. “Beyond the Politics of Life and Choice: A New Conversation About Abortion.” Old Dog Documentaries, Anne Macksoud and John Ankele, filmmakers, 2007. “Silent Choices,” Organized Chaos Productions, Faith Pennick, filmmaker, 2007. "Failure to Protect: A National Dialogue," FRONTLINE/Fred Friendly Seminars, 2003. "The Pill," The American Experience, PBS, 2003.
Selected Media Interviews COVID-19 and inequality, Ali Velshi Show, MSNBC, March 21 and 28, 2020. “Is ‘Pro-Choice’ A Problem?,” On the Media, January 5, 2018. “Gene Editing and Reproductive Justice,” Webinar, Center for Genetics & Society, June 13, 2017. “What’s Race Got To Do with Medicine?,” TED Radio Hour, Feb. 10, 2017. “Is There A Racial ‘Care Gap’ in Medical Treatment?,” PBS NewsHour, April 6, 2016. “Taking Race Out of Human Genetics,” Radio Times, WHYY, Philadelphia, March 1, 2016. Racial profiling and the death of Sandra Bland, Radio Times, WHYY, Philadelphia, July 27, 2015. Discussion of Nicholas Wade, A Troublesome Inheritance, with Jonathan Marks, Talking Biopolitics webcast, Center for Genetics & Society, November 12, 2014. Interviewed about Fatal Invention on: Tavis Smiley television show, PBS, Sept. 2011; Tavis Smiley Radio Show, PRI, July 8, 2011; David Sirota Show, Clear Channel Denver, July 29, 2011; Brian Lehrer Show, WNYC, Aug. 15, 2011; KPFA, Berkeley, Sept 20, 2011; KPFK, Los Angeles, Sept. 22, 2011; Melody Barnes Show, Albany, Oct. 19, 2011; Brian Shields Show, NPR, Oct. 20, 2011. International Women’s Day, Voices from the Frontlines, KPFK, Los Angeles, March 9, 2010. “What’s Wrong with Race-based Medicine,” Minnesota Public Radio, Feb. 3, 2010. “Universal Human Rights for the US,” Worldview, WBEZ, Chicago, Nov. 4, 2008. “Race, Pharmaceuticals, and Medical Technology,” Live Webinar, American Society of Law, Medicine, & Ethics; September 30, 2008. “Race and Genetics: The Future of Personalized Medicine,” Live Webcast, Kaiser Family Foundation; August 20, 2008. DNA Files, Chicago Public Radio; race-based genetic ancestry research; Oct. 24, 2007. News & Notes, National Public Radio; Black women and reproductive rights; Jan. 18, 2006. Vancouver Cooperative Radio; FDA approval of first race-specific drug; June 25, 2005. Interviewed about Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfare on: Todd Mundt Show, NPR, Jan. 23, 2002; People to People, WGN-TV, Jan. 23, 2002; The O’Reilly Factor, Fox Cable Television, Jan. 25, 2002; New York and Company, NPR, Jan. 25, 2002; Tavis Smiley Show, NPR, Feb. 4, 2002; In Pursuit of Truth, WHAT-AM (Indiana), Feb. 4, 2002; Morning Show, KPFK-FM (Pacifica), Feb. 5,
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2002; Open Mind, WVAS-FM, March 1, 2002; WCHB (Detroit), July 15, 2002; WHAT-AM (Philadelphia), July 20, 2002. “Feminism, Race, and Child Welfare Policy,” Voices of Public Intellectuals, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, broadcast nationwide on NPR and available on compact disc; spring 2002. Odyssey, WBEZ Radio (Chicago); feminist theory and practice; June 28, 2001. Chicago Tonight; licensing of direct-entry midwives; June 6, 2001. “What We Talk About When We Talk About Reproductive Rights,” interview in Ms Magazine, Special Report: Saluting Champions, April/May 2001, p. 77. B.E.T. Tonight; Black women’s reproductive health and rights, Black Entertainment Network, April 10, 2001. Talk Back with Eutrice Leeds, WBAI Radio (New York), April 19, 2000. Feature Story, South African television; crime and abortion rates; Oct. 21, 1999. Chicago Tonight; sterilization program for substance abusing women; August 3, 1999. Chicago Tonight; paper linking drop in crime to abortion rates; Aug. 11, 1999. Eight-Forty-Eight, WBEZ Radio (Chicago); paper linking crime to abortion rates, Aug. 11, 1999. Justice Talking compact disc, debate against Paul Logli, State’s Attorney for Winnebago County, IL., on prosecuting substance abuse during pregnancy, Annenberg Public Policy Center, University of Pennsylvania; 1999. Interviewed about Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty, on the Premier Radio Network (Denver), Oct. 22, 1997; WOL (Washington, D.C.), Oct. 27, 1997; WVON (Chicago), Nov. 10, 1997; WMSX (Boston), Nov. 11, 1997; Odyssey, WBEZ (Chicago), Nov. 12, 1997; Laura Flanders Show, KWAB (Boulder), Oct. 12, 2000. ABC News Special Report on Hearings on the Nomination of Judge Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court; interviewed by Peter Jennings; New York, NY; Oct. 12, 1991.