Race and racialization

Summary

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Nadine Ehlers joined the University of Sydney in 2016. Previously, she held appointments at Georgetown University (Washington, D.C.), the University of North Carolina, and The Ohio State University. She was invited Visiting Scholar in Residence at the Center for Science, Technology, Medicine, and Society at the University of California, Berkeley, and has also held a visiting appointment at New York University in the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality. She is Deputy Director of the Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies, at the School of Social and Political Sciences and editorial board member of the journals Australian Feminist Studies and Distinktion: Journal of Social Theory.

Ehlers’ research broadly focuses on sociology of health. More specifically, her work addresses the asymmetrical “governance of life” along racial and gendered lines, primarily within the arenas of biomedicine, law, and their intersections. Her most recent work analyzes the bio/necro/vital politics of health in relation to racial futurity.

Supervisor

Associate Professor Nadine Ehlers.

Research location

Sociology and Criminology, School of Social and Political Sciences (SSPS)

Synopsis

Research interests

• Race and racialization; critical race and black feminist theory; philosophy of race (ethics)
• Feminist and queer theory
• Biopolitics of health; feminist bioethics; feminist science and technology studies; feminist theories of the body
• Biomedical ethics; society, community and health; medical sociology, sociology of science and technology

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Opportunity ID

The opportunity ID for this research opportunity is 3238