Research Foci

General Areas of Research and Teaching

Anthropology of Science; Medical Anthropology; Race; Health Disparities; Global Health Politics; especially in France, Senegal, West Africa, and the United States.

Project 1: Sickle Cell Health Politics, Embodied Disease and Genetic Science in Senegal, West Africa

Project 2: Scientific and Political Rationalities of Race Thinking in Contemporary American Genomics Laboratories.

Project 3: Ethnic Conflict, Global Racism, and Fortified Borders that Result from Environmental Resource Scarcity in Africa

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 'Helping to organize DNA.'
Professor Fullwiley in the field at the
Laboratoire de Biologie Moléculaire, LBV CHU,
Aristide Le Dantec Hospital in Dakar, Senegal
working on a collaborative sickle cell trait study. 2006.