Catherine Bliss

Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Race and Science Studies

Catherine Bliss (PhD New School for Social Research) is a recipient of the Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities in Africana Studies and the Committee on Science and Technology Studies, 2009-2011. Her research examines the relationship between the construction and naturalization of racial and ethnic categories and modern scientific knowledge production, with a focus on the fields of biology and medicine. She is currently working on a monograph on the resurgence of racial science in the field of genomics.

Selected Publications:

"Genome Sampling and the Biopolitics of Race" in A Foucault for the 21st Century: Govering Biopolitics and Discipline in the New Millennium Eds. Binkley, Samuel and Jorge Capetillo. Boston, MA: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
"Mapping Admixture by Race" in International Journal of Technology, Knowledge and Society 4:79-83.

Selected Honors and Awards

Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities, 2009-2011.
Alfred Schutz Memorial Award in Philosophy and Sociology, 2009.
New School for Social Research Dissertation Fellowship, 2007-2008.
National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant, 2006-2007.
New School for Social Research University Teaching Fellowship, 2006-2007.

Courses Taught

African Diaspora and Genomics