Penn Program on Race, Science, & SocietyProfessor Dorothy Roberts has published a chapter in Human Flourishing in an Age of Gene Editing, edited by Erik Parens and Josephine Johnston. Roberts' chapter examined the nature of "human flourishing" itself and described the limits of gene-editing in achieving such flourishing. You can read more about the edited volume here.
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October 18, 2019
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October 18, 2019
Professor Quayshawn Spencer has published a new book, What Is Race?: Four Philosophical Views. You can learn more about it here.
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May 1, 2019
Professor Dorothy Roberts published an op-ed today in the Philadelphia Inquirer on the subject of eugenics.
You can read the op-ed here.
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April 20, 2019
Professor Dorothy Roberts will give the Betsy Wood Knapp Lecture at Wellesley College on April 30. Her topic will be "The Problem with Race-Based Medicine."
You can find more information, including information about livestreaming, here.
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April 20, 2019
On May 2, Professor Dorothy Roberts will be a panelist at the National Constitution Center event, "A Dangerous Idea: The History of Eugenics in America." After a partial screening of the documentary "A Dangerous Idea: Eugenics, Genetics and the American Dream," Roberts and co-panelists Andrew Kimbrell, Daniel Okrent, and Paul Lombardo will have a discussion, moderated by Jeffrey Rosen.
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April 8, 2019
PRSS Postdoctoral Fellow Natalie Shibley presented her research on the history of HIV criminalization in the U.S. military at the Organization of American Historians (OAH) Annual Meeting. Shibley discussed courts-martial of servicemembers who tested positive for HIV and who were accused of assault or other criminal charges for sexual activity in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The presentation was drawn from her manuscript on race and the policing of homosexuality in the U.S. military in the mid- to late twentieth century.
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April 8, 2019
The Daily Pennsylvanian reported on the Penn and Slavery Symposium, co-organized by PRSS and the Penn and Slavery Project.
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April 7, 2019
Penn Today published a story on the Penn and Slavery Symposium, held on April 3 and 4, 2019. The symposium was supported by the Office of the Provost and organized by Professor and PRSS Director Dorothy Roberts, PRSS Postdoctoral Fellow Natalie Shibley, Professor Kathy Brown, who is the lead historian of the Penn & Slavery Project, and Postdoctoral Fellow Alexis Broderick Neumann.
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February 26, 2019
College Magazine recently ranked Penn the #1 college for African American Studies and named the Program on Race, Science, and Society as one of Penn Africana Studies' main strengths. You can read more here.
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PRSS Director Dorothy Roberts To Receive Honorary Degree, Give Commencement Speech at Rutgers-Newark
February 16, 2019
Congratulations to PRSS Director Dorothy Roberts, who will receive an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Rutgers University-Newark in May 2019. Professor Roberts will also give the commencement speech at the ceremony, which will be held at Newark's Prudential Center.
You can read more about this great honor here.