Thanks to a generous grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, faculty and students at UC Santa Cruz will have a chance to critically investigate the relationships among medicine, race, and the environment both in the United States and in other regions of the globe shaped by the influence of American medicine.
The $225,000 award will support “Race, Empire, and the Environments of Biomedicine,” a Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Culture, that, starting in Fall 2022, will bring scientists, physicians, and scholars of the humanities and social sciences together with students and members of the UC Santa Cruz community for a series of public lectures, reading groups, and research fellowships at the graduate and postdoctoral levels.
The effort is led by S&J affiliated faculty Jennifer Derr, associate professor of history, the founding director of the Center for the Middle East and North Africa and Jenny Reardon, professor of sociology, the founding director of the Science and Justice Research Center.
Learn more in this campus news article: UC Santa Cruz receives Mellon Foundation humanities grant to investigate race, biomedicine