Visiting Fellows
Laurie McIntosh
Dept. of Anthropology, Harvard Post-Doc Fellow
Carina Ray
Ph.D. Assistant Professor, History Department, Fordham University
Keith Wailoo
Distinguished Visiting Professor
Keith Wailoo is Martin Luther King Jr., Professor of History at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, where he is jointly appointed in the Department of History and in the Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research. He is also founding Director of the Center for Race and Ethnicity at Rutgers. Before joining Rutgers in July 2001, he taught in the Department of History and in the Department of Social Medicine (in the Medical School) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1992 in the History and Sociology of Science, and holds a Bachelors Degree from Yale University in Chemical Engineering (1984).
Selected Publications:
- The Troubled Dream of Genetic Medicine: Ethnicity and Innovation in Tay-Sachs, Cystic Fibrosis, Sickle Cell Disease (coauthored with Stephen Pemberton) (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006)
- Dying in the City of the Blues: Sickle Cell Anemia and the Politics of Race and Health (University of North Carolina, 2001)
- Drawing Blood: Technology and Disease Identity in Twentieth-Century America (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997).