BA, Brandeis
PhD, MIT I am a Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine at King's College, London. My research focuses on biomedicine and culture, theories of race and gender, and ways in which science and medicine are mobilized in social justice projects. My new book, Synthesizing Hope: Matter, Knowledge, and Place in South African Drug Discovery, has recently been published by the University of Chicago Press. Synthesizing Hope draws on research at a small South African pharmaceutical company that was founded with the mission of finding new drugs for TB, HIV, and malaria, and explores how it matters who makes pharmaceutical knowledge and where. An interactive site on this project can be explored at mappingithemba.com. My first book, Medicating Race: Heart Disease and Durable Preoccupations with Difference, tracks the intersecting discourses of race, pharmaceuticals, and cardiovascular disease in the United States from the founding of cardiology to the controversial approval of BiDil for heart failure in “self-identified black patients.” With the support of a fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies, I am returning to questions of racism and health in the United States in my third book, which analyzes 21st century events to explore contemporary racialization of access to health and citizenship. I have recently submitted the book for review, with the working title Sickening: Racism, Health Disparities, and Biopolitics in the 21st Century. With the support of the Wellcome Trust and with collaborators Melissa Creary, Vivette Garcia-Deister, Nadine Ehlers, Zimitri Erasmus, and Amade M'charek, I am in the founding stages of a research network on "Race and Biomedicine Beyond the Lab: 21st Century Mobilizations." More broadly, I am engaged in ongoing research in three areas: feminist theory and the heart; American health disparities and citizenship claims; and science by and for the Global South. I serve on the Lead Editorial team of Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience and am an Associate Editor of BioSocieties. I also serve on the Editorial Board of Science, Technology ,and Human Values . Recent Publications"Unintended by Design: On the Political Uses of 'Unintended Consequences'," coauthored with Nassim Parvin, Engaging Science, Technology and Society Vol. 6 (2020): DOI: https://doi.org/10.17351/ests2020.497.
Synthesizing Hope: Matter, Knowledge, and Place in South African Drug Discovery. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019. How do Black Lives Matter in Teaching, Lab Practices, and Research? Lab Meeting, Co-convened with Deboleena Roy, for the Working Group on Race and Racism in Contemporary Biomedicine Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience 3.2(2017). BiDil’s Compensation Relations In Subprime Health: Debt and Race in U.S. Medicine, edited by Nadine Ehlers and Leslie Hinkson, 83-104. University of Minnesota Press, 2017. After Big Data Failed: The Enduring Allure of Numbers in the Wake of the 2016 US Election Coauthored with Yanni Loukissas, Engaging Science, Technology, and Society 3 (2017): http://dx.doi.org/10.17351/ests2017.150. Queering Endocrine Disruption In Object Oriented Feminism, edited by Katherine Behar, 183-199. University of Minnesota Press, 2016. Resisting Power, Retooling Justice: Promises of Feminist Postcolonial Technosciences Coauthored with Banu Subramaniam, Science, Technology & Human Values, 41.6(November 2016): 951-966. Heart Feminism Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience 1.1(September 2015): 30pp. Coronary Artery Disease and the Contours of Pharmaceuticalization Coauthored with David S. Jones, Social Science & Medicine 131 (April 2015): 221–227. On the Suspended Sentences of the Scott Sisters: Mass Incarceration, Kidney Donation, and the Biopolitics of Race in the United States Science, Technology, and Human Values, 40.2 (March 2015): 250-271. See CV for full list of publications. Please feel free to email me to request PDFs of articles or chapters. |
