Date:
Location:
"Algorithms, Race, and Racism: Historical Perspectives"
Speaker:
Lundy Braun, Professor of Africana Studies; Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Alpert Medical School of Brown University.
Contact:
Sam Evans
samuel_evans@harvard.edu
Cosponsored by the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.
Abstract:
Lundy Braun is a Professor of Africana Studies and Pathology and Laboratory Medicine/Alpert Medical School of Brown University and a member of the Science, Technology, and Society (STS) Program. She received her Ph.D. from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Her current research analyzes the historical role of science in the production of racialized knowledge and racial hierarchies, focusing on spirometry and kidney function. She has participated in national and international workshops on race, imperialism, genetics, and health and is currently a member of the American Thoracic Society Working Group on race and pulmonary function tests. Braun has organized an ongoing interdisciplinary Research Cluster on Race, Medicine, and Social Justice at the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice at Brown University for the past six years. In 2014, she published Breathing Race into the Machine: The Surprising Career of the Spirometer from Plantation to Genetics on the history of racism and lung capacity measurements.
Bio:
Lundy Braun is a Professor of Africana Studies and Pathology and Laboratory Medicine/Alpert Medical School of Brown University and a member of the Science, Technology, and Society (STS) Program. She received her Ph.D. from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Her current research analyzes the historical role of science in the production of racialized knowledge and racial hierarchies, focusing on spirometry and kidney function. She has participated in national and international workshops on race, imperialism, genetics, and health and is currently a member of the American Thoracic Society Working Group on race and pulmonary function tests. Braun has organized an ongoing interdisciplinary Research Cluster on Race, Medicine, and Social Justice at the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice at Brown University for the past six years. In 2014, she published Breathing Race into the Machine: The Surprising Career of the Spirometer from Plantation to Genetics on the history of racism and lung capacity measurements.
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