Uncovering the social factors lurking within diabetes risk
Assistant Professor of Sociology and Interim SJRC Director (fall 2020) James Doucet-Battle’s new book challenges assumptions about race within diabetes research and delves into the issue through the lens of African American experience. Learn more in this campus news article, “Uncovering the social factors lurking within diabetes risk.”
UCSC arts professor documents spread of COVID-19 inside prisons, jails, and detention centers
The interactive web project by Film & Digital Media Professor Sharon Daniel creates cumulative public record and evolving history of the pandemic’s impact on those incarcerated. Exposed is the latest in a series of new media documentary projects created by Daniel that reveal social and economic injustice across public institutions, including the criminal justice system, the prison industrial complex,… Continue Reading UCSC arts professor documents spread of COVID-19 inside prisons, jails, and detention centers
Call for Participation | Winter + Spring 2021
The Science & Justice Research Center (SJRC) invites up to 10 undergraduate students to join a cohort of researchers for both Winter and Spring 2021 terms. The Individual Study can range from 2-5 units and are part of a group. Independently, students can also work on senior thesis projects in areas related to Center themes… Continue Reading Call for Participation | Winter + Spring 2021
Theorizing Race After Race: Black Geographies of Quarantine
The first installment of a series of dialogues on COVID-19 and Racism of the SJRC’s Theorizing Race After Race working group is now live on the UCHRI Foundry website! Check out Black Geographies of Quarantine: A Dialogue with Brandi Summers, Camilla Hawthorne, and Theresa Hice Fromille. Contributors Special thanks to Science & Justice researcher Aitanna… Continue Reading Theorizing Race After Race: Black Geographies of Quarantine
Forthcoming Book release! Sweetness in the Blood: Race, Risk, and Type 2 Diabetes (University of Minnesota Press, 2021)
Sweetness in the Blood: Race, Risk, and Type 2 Diabetes (University of Minnesota Press, 2021) challenges the notion that the best approach to understanding, managing, and curing Type 2 diabetes is through the lens of race. It also transforms how we think about sugar, filling a neglected gap between the sugar- and molasses-sweetened past of the enslaved African laborer and the high-fructose corn syrup- and corporate-fed body of the contemporary consumer-laborer. Continue Reading Forthcoming Book release! Sweetness in the Blood: Race, Risk, and Type 2 Diabetes (University of Minnesota Press, 2021)
SJTP concludes comparative cross-campus review of graduate curriculum that make questions of gender and social justice fundamental to STEM training
SJRC concludes a project set out to compare two graduate training programs that center issues of gender, race, and social justice as fundamental to science training in STEM curriculums. Continue Reading SJTP concludes comparative cross-campus review of graduate curriculum that make questions of gender and social justice fundamental to STEM training
Website Launch! Unjustly Exposed – interactive documentary on COVID in prisons and jails
Unjustly Exposed – an interactive documentary on COVID in prisons and jails Continue Reading Website Launch! Unjustly Exposed – interactive documentary on COVID in prisons and jails
Tech Futures: 52 Conversation Starter Card Deck
The Science & Justice Research Center is co-sponsoring a project with the Center for Public Philosophy to create a deck of playing cards that will catalyze conversations about ethics and technology, and we want your ideas. Cards will not tell players what to think. They are a playful way to stimulate dialogue on some of… Continue Reading Tech Futures: 52 Conversation Starter Card Deck