Alondra Nelson
American academic and writer
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Sociology
Alondra Nelson's Degrees
- PhD American Studies New York University
- Masters American Studies New York University
- Bachelors Sociology University of California, San Diego
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Alondra Nelson is an American academic, policy advisor, non-profit administrator, and writer. She is the Harold F. Linder chair and professor in the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study, an independent research center in Princeton, New Jersey. From 2021 to 2023, Nelson was deputy assistant to President Joe Biden and principal deputy director for science and society of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy , where she performed the duties of the director from February to October 2022. She was the first African American and first woman of color to lead OSTP. Prior to her role in the Biden Administration, she served for four years as president and CEO of the Social Science Research Council, an independent, nonpartisan international nonprofit organization. Nelson was previously professor of sociology at Columbia University, where she served as the inaugural Dean of Social Science, as well as director of the Institute for Research on Women and Gender. She began her academic career on the faculty of Yale University.
Alondra Nelson's Published Works
Published Works
- Introduction: Future Texts (2002) (256)
- Ten simple rules for responsible big data research (2017) (227)
- The Science and Business of Genetic Ancestry Testing (2007) (225)
- Racial Categories in Medical Practice: How Useful Are They? (2007) (168)
- Bio Science (2008) (165)
- Computational social science: Obstacles and opportunities (2020) (141)
- Genetics and the Unsettled Past: The Collision of DNA, Race, and History (2012) (97)
- Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight against Medical Discrimination (2011) (88)
- New Thoughts on the Black Arts Movement (2006) (60)
- Genetic Genealogy Testing and the Pursuit of African Ancestry (2008) (58)
- Inclusion: the politics of difference in medical research (2009) (40)
- Making the Impossible Possible: An Interview with Nalo Hopkinson (2002) (39)
- The Social Life of DNA: Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation After the GenomeThe Social Life of DNA: Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation After the Genome Alondra Nelson Beacon Press, 2016. 216 pp. (2016) (35)
- Biomedicalising genetic health, diseases and identities (2009) (23)
- The Longue Durée of Black Lives Matter. (2016) (21)
- The physician–patient relationship in the age of precision medicine (2018) (18)
- SOCIALLY DESIRABLE REPORTING AND THE EXPRESSION OF BIOLOGICAL CONCEPTS OF RACE (2019) (10)
- DNA ETHNICITY AS BLACK SOCIAL ACTION (2013) (9)
- "Genuine Struggle and Care": An Interview With Cleo Silvers. (2016) (8)
- THE EXPRESSION OF BIOLOGICAL CONCEPTS OF RACE (2005) (8)
- Genetics and the Unsettled Past (2012) (6)
- 2. Reconciliation Projects: From Kinship to Justice (2020) (6)
- The Social Life of DTC Genetics:The case of 23andMe (2014) (6)
- Aliens Who Are of Course Ourselves (2001) (5)
- When "No" Means "Yes": Measuring Social Desirability Effects on the Expression of Biological Concepts of Race (2015) (5)
- The social life of DNA: racial reconciliation and institutional morality after the genome. (2018) (5)
- 48. The Science and Business of Genetic Ancestry Testing (2019) (3)
- Introduction: Genetic Claims and the Unsettled Past (2020) (2)
- The social life of DNA: racial reconciliation and institutional morality after the genome - a response. (2018) (2)
- Humanitarian DNA Identification in Post-Apartheid South Africa To appear in : (2014) (2)
- The Shadows Took Shape (2013) (2)
- The Science and Business of Ancestry Testing (2007) (2)
- As American As Cherry Pie (2011) (1)
- Communities on the Verge: Intersections and Disjunctures in the New Information Order. (1997) (1)
- Weapons for when bigotry claims science as its ally (2020) (1)
- What’s Biology Got to do With It? (2014) (1)
- The Social Life of DTC Genetics (2014) (1)
- Scratch a Theory, You Find a Biography (2019) (1)
- Strengthening scientific integrity. (2022) (0)
- ethnicity is the prevailing outcome of genetic testing for genealogical purposes. The decoding of the human genome precipitated a change of paradigms in genetics research, from an emphasis on genetic similarity to a focus on molecular-level (2016) (0)
- Alondra Nelson: The Social Life of DNA and the Need for a New Bioethics (2020) (0)
- The People’s Free Medical Clinics (2011) (0)
- Origins of Black Panther Party Health Activism (2011) (0)
- Racial Categories in Medical Practice: (2019) (0)
- 19. Genetic Claims and Credibility: Revisiting History and Remaking Race (2020) (0)
- Protecting the people who feed us. (1995) (0)
- Confronting Bias: BSA’s Framework to Build Trust in AI (2021) (0)
- African American Civil Rights: Early Activism and the Niagara Movement. By Angela Jones. Santa Barbara, Calif.: Praeger, 2011. Pp. x+281. $44.95. (2013) (0)
- [VD and the infectious diseases law. 3]. (1973) (0)
- The physician–patient relationship in the age of precision medicine (2018) (0)
- Race, Reparations and Reconciliation After the Genome (2017) (0)
- Talk back with Dr. Alondra Nelson (2016) (0)
- Books for our time: seven classics that speak to us now (2019) (0)
- African American Responses to Medical Discrimination Before 1966 (2011) (0)
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