Retiring Race (as a Genetic Construct): Implications for Biology and Society

 

What: The Anthropology Department at Trinity College is hosting Alan Goodman, Professor of Biological Anthropology at Hampshire College, to give a talk about the problematic use of “race” in science.  The talk is co-sponsored by the Sociology, Biology, and Educational Studies programs.

 

When: Tuesday, March 25 ~ 5 p.m.

 

Where: Washington Room in Mather Hall on the Trinity College campus.

 

Background: Alan Goodman, professor of biological anthropology at Hampshire College, teaches and writes on the health and nutritional consequences of political-economic processes including poverty, inequality and racism.  He has written extensively on the idea of race in science and recently helped create a traveling museum exhibit and website on this topic (understandingrace.org) Goodman received his Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Massachusetts and was a postdoctoral fellow in International Nutrition at the University of Connecticut and a research fellow in stress physiology at Karolinska Institute, Stockholm. He is the former Dean of Natural Sciences at Hampshire College and the former President of the American Anthropological Association.

 

This lecture is free and open to the public.  For more information please contact Jennifer Fichera at Jennifer.Fichera@trincoll.edu.

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