Members of the ELSI Scholar Directory are scholars and trainees with an interest in research on the ethical, legal, and social implications of genetics and genomics. You may contact members to organize collaborative projects or working groups, share speaking opportunities, solicit expert commentary, obtain advice on policy or legislation, network, and arrange mentor/mentee relationships.
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Jay D. Aronson, Ph.D.
Professor and Director of the Center for Human Rights Science
Institution: Carnegie Mellon University
Contact: [email protected]
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- forensic DNA
- Human Rights
- race and genetics
- dna forensic databanking

Shawneequa Callier, JD, MA
Associate Professor
Institution: George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences
Contact: [email protected]
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- race and genetics
- Ethics of precision medicine
- Ethical Legal and Social Implications (ELSI)

Sarah P. Chu, MS, Biology & MS, Epidemiology
Doctoral student in criminal justice (*Currently employed as Sr. Advisor on Forensic Science Policy, Innocence Project*)
Institution: John Jay College of Criminal Justice/CUNY Graduate Center
Contact: [email protected]
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- Criminal Justice
- Forensic Sciences
- science and society
- U.S. science and technology policy
- Government Regulation

Jay Clayton, Ph.D.
William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor, Department of English and Director, Curb Center for Art, Enterprise, and Public Policy
Institution: Vanderbilt University
Contact: [email protected]
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- Literature and genetics
- Film, television, and genetics
- Medical humanities
- genetic privacy

Simon A. Cole, Ph.D.
Professor of Criminology, Law and Society
Institution: University of California, Irvine
Contact: [email protected]
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- Crime
- Determinism
- Forensic

Joan H. Fujimura, M.A., Ph.D.
Martindale-Bascom Professor of Sociology
Institution: University of Wisconsin-Madison
Contact: [email protected]
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- Race and genomics
- Epidemiological genetics
- GWAS
- precision medicine
- Sociogenomics

Ilaria Galasso
Postdoctoral Researcher
Institution: University College Dublin
Contact: [email protected]
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- Science and technology studies
- Health Equity
- precision medicine
- Philosophy
- patient engagement

Anna Jabloner, Ph.D.
College Fellow
Institution: Harvard University
Contact: [email protected]
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- Anthropology of Science, Technology, and Biomedicine
- Feminist Science Studies
- Ethnographies of the U.S.
- Race, Gender, Sexuality & Class

Eric T. Juengst, Ph.D.
Professor of Social Medicine; Director, Center for Bioethics
Institution: School of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Contact: [email protected]
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- Human gene editing
- Population genomics
- Concepts of genetic disease
- Concepts of prevention
- Eugenics

Lesley O Larkin, Ph.D.
Professor of English
Institution: Northern Michigan University
Contact: [email protected]
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- Race and Gender in Science and Medicine
- Literature and genetics
- literary studies