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SJRC Annual Report 2021-2022

Volume 15 Director’s Letter: Welcome to Science & Justice As we look forward to the year to come, we appreciate the chance to share with you our accomplishments of the last year. Science & Justice continues to be in the headlines, making a critical difference in California, the nation and globally. Our faculty and students… Continue Reading SJRC Annual Report 2021-2022

Book Cover for Contesting Race and Citizenship: Youth Politics in the Black Mediterranean (Cornell University Press, 2022)

Book release! Contesting Race and Citizenship: Youth Politics in the Black Mediterranean (Cornell University Press, 2022)

About the Book Contesting Race and Citizenship is an original study of Black politics and varieties of political mobilization in Italy. Although there is extensive research on first-generation immigrants and refugees who traveled from Africa to Italy, there is little scholarship about the experiences of Black people who were born and raised in Italy. Camilla Hawthorne… Continue Reading Book release! Contesting Race and Citizenship: Youth Politics in the Black Mediterranean (Cornell University Press, 2022)

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Call for 2022-2023 SJRC Graduate Student Researcher

Interested in the Intersections of Science and Justice? Want to Develop Responsible Collaborative Research and Public Events? Science & Justice seeks a graduate student researcher who: has successfully completed the Science & Justice Training Program; is able to attend SJWG meetings typically on Wednesday’s from 4-6PM and create rapporteur reports; actively participates in building science… Continue Reading Call for 2022-2023 SJRC Graduate Student Researcher

SJRC Annual Report 2020-2021

Volume 14 Director’s Letter: Welcome to Science & Justice As we look forward to the year to come, we appreciate the chance to share with you our accomplishments of the last year. Science & Justice continues to be in the headlines, making a critical difference in California, the nation and globally. Our faculty and students… Continue Reading SJRC Annual Report 2020-2021

JOB Announcement | UC Santa Cruz is hiring for a Mellon Sawyer Postdoctoral Scholar

The Department of History at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) invites applications for a one-year postdoctoral scholar appointment to support an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar on “Race, Empire, and the Environments of Biomedicine” scheduled for the 2022-23 academic year, under the direction of Associate Professor Jennifer Derr. Continue Reading JOB Announcement | UC Santa Cruz is hiring for a Mellon Sawyer Postdoctoral Scholar

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Summer 2022 | Undergraduate Student Researcher Opportunity (PAID)

The Science & Justice Research Center and the Sociology Department are now accepting applications for a: Summer Undergraduate Research Fellow This position and the research conducted is supported by a Faculty Research Grant provided by the Committee on Research from the University of California, Santa Cruz awarded to Principal Investigator James Doucet-Battle (Assistant Professor of… Continue Reading Summer 2022 | Undergraduate Student Researcher Opportunity (PAID)

Theorizing Race After Race: Race, Contagion, and the Nation: A Dialogue with Pedro Valdez, Abril Saldaña-Tejeda, Felicity Amaya Schaeffer, and Jenny Reardon

The third installment of a series of dialogues on COVID-19 and Racism of the SJRC’s Theorizing Race After Race (TRAR) Collective is now live on the UCHRI Foundry website! Check out: Race, Contagion, and the Nation: A Dialogue with Pedro Valdez, Abril Saldaña-Tejeda, Felicity Amaya Schaeffer, and Jenny Reardon Continue Reading Theorizing Race After Race: Race, Contagion, and the Nation: A Dialogue with Pedro Valdez, Abril Saldaña-Tejeda, Felicity Amaya Schaeffer, and Jenny Reardon

Book cover for Can precision medicine be personal; can personalized medicine be precise? (2022)

Book Release! Can precision medicine be personal; can personalized medicine be precise? (Oxford University Press, 2022)

About the Book People have always sought medical care that is tailored to every individual patient. Alongside with the historical development of institutions of care, the vision of personal and ‘holistic’ care persisted. Patient-centred medicine, interpersonal communication and shared decision making have become central to medical practice and services. This evolving vision of ‘personalized medicine’… Continue Reading Book Release! Can precision medicine be personal; can personalized medicine be precise? (Oxford University Press, 2022)