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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Robert A. Aronowitz, M.D.
Walter H. and Leonore C. Annenberg Professor in the Social Sciences and chair, History and Sociology of Science, at the University of Pennsylvania
Institution: University of Pennsylvania
Contact: [email protected]
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- History of disease
- Epidemiology
- Health Policy
- Risk
- Cancer

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

Gretchen A. Case, PhD, MA
Associate Professor (lecturer)
Institution: University of Utah School of Medicine
Contact: [email protected]
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- arts-based methods
- Medical humanities
- Arts
- Disability studies
- Performance studies

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

Jorge L. Contreras, J.D., BSEE, B.A.
Presidential Scholar and Professor of Law
Institution: University of Utah
Contact: [email protected]
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- Intellectual Property
- genomic data sharing policy
- data standards
- patents
- knowledge commons

James Doucet-Battle, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology
Institution: University of California, Santa Cruz
Contact: [email protected]
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- Medical Anthropology
- Science and technology studies
- African genomics
- health disparities
- Bioethics

Kadija Ferryman, Ph.D.
Industry Assistant Professor
Institution: New York University
Contact: [email protected]
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- health disparities
- Ethics of precision medicine
- Bioethics
- Anthropology of Science, Technology, and Biomedicine

Jonathan Kahn, J.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Law and Biology
Institution: Northeastern University
Contact: [email protected]
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- Race and Ethnicity
- Bioethical Issues
- Genetics and the Law
- pharmacogenomics

Daniel J. Kevles
Professor Emeritus of History
Institution: Yale University
Contact: [email protected]
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- Eugenics
- Intellectual Property
- public policy

Emily Merchant, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Institution: University of California, Davis
Contact: [email protected]
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- History of science and medicine