People

Administrative Support

Name	Title	Email
Ana Wevill	Management Services Officer	ana@socgen.ucla.edu
Roland McFarland	Coordinator	rmcfarland@socgen.ucla.edu
Rich Moushegian	Student Affairs Officer	rmousheg@socgen.ucla.edu
Don Ponturo	Communications	dponturo@ucla.edu
Erica Stanley	Research Manager	estanley@socgen.ucla.edu
Onjefu Efada	Web Developer	oefada@socgen.ucla.edu
Tamika Hernandez	Administrative Assistant	thernandez@socgen.ucla.edu

Co-Directors

Name	Research Interests	Email
Edward R.B. McCabe	newborn screening - molecular genetic testing for microbiologic organisms with the goal of decreasing the time for identification of infectious agents; genetics and public policy	socgen at socgen.ucla.edu
Norton Wise	history of science, eighteenth to twentieth centuries; co-evolution of science and society; science and political economy; gardens as culture/economic projectors; the gendering of scientific ideas	nortonw at history.ucla.edu

Associate Director

Name	Research Interests	Email
Jessica Lynch Alfaro	mating strategies; evolution of social behavior and social learning; phylogenetics and phylogeography; Neotropical primates; reproductive endocrinology; masculinity and violence; sex and gender in biological, social and developmental contexts	jlynchalfaro at socgen.ucla.edu

Faculty

Name	Research Interests	Email
Soraya de Chadarevian	history of biology and medicine, nineteenth and twentieth century with special focus on history of molecular biology and genetics post-World War II; material cultures of experimentation, especially the role of technologies, images and models in the production and circulation of scientific knowledge; technoscience/medicine, industry and the state; science/medicine and the military; historiographical issues	chadarevian at history.ucla.edu
Wayne Grody	diagnostic molecular pathology; human genetics; DNA-based testing for genetic, infectious and neoplastic diseases; quality assurance and ethical guidelines for DNA-based genetic testing; DNA fingerprinting	wgrody at mednet.ucla.edu
Barbara Herman	genetic privacy; concepts of property rights in the person; moral philosophy; medical law and ethics	herman at humnet.ucla.edu
Christopher Kelty	anthropological and historical research on science and technology; free and open source software; intellectual property and open access; politics of electronic voting; history of software; ethics and politics of nanotechnology	ckelty at socgen.ucla.edu
Russell Korobkin	health care law; stem cell law and policy	korobkin at law.ucla.edu
Hannah Landecker	social and historical study of biotechnology and life science from 1900-present; intersections of biology and technology, with a particular focus on cells; in vitro conditions of life in research settings	landecker at soc.ucla.edu
Christina Palmer	implications on genetic testing for deafness; examination of the inter-relationships among research methodologies/technologies, advocacy groups and perspectives on deafness and how they imact the lives of all individuals	cpalmer at mednet.ucla.edu
Aaron Panofsky	sociology of science and knowledge; social theory; cultural sociology; social change; the causes and consequences of controversy in behavior genetics; the impact of patient advocacy on medical genetics; how genetics affects different fields of knowledge; the relationship between expertise and democracy in decision making; governance of science	apanofsky at socgen.ucla.edu
Janet Sinsheimer	human genetics; biomathematics and the application of statistical methodology in human genetic analysis; statistical methods related to maternal-fetal genotype incompatability; estimating ethnic ancestry from DNA data	janet at mednet.ucla.edu
Joan Silk	how natural selection shapes evolution of social behavior in primates; behavioral and reproductive strategies in Old World monkey species; questions that link studies of nonhuman primates to humans; phylogenic roots of capacities that relate to nonhuman and human societies	jsilk at anthro.ucla.edu
Stefan Timmermans	ethnography; sociology of health and illness; science and technology of the body, death and dying; interpretive theories related to genetics; qualitative research methods	stefan at soc.ucla.edu
Eric Vilain	medical genetics; gender-based biology; genetic bases of sex determination and sexual orientation; molecular mechanisms responsible for intersexuality in humans; mechanisms of early gonadal development and brain sexual differentiation; psychological well-being of individuals born with disorders of sex development	evilain at ucla.edu

Faculty Fellows
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Name	Research Interests	Email
Richard C. Delerins (Visiting)	cuisine, nutrition and genetics in the United States and France	richard.delerins@ehess.fr
Debra Greenfield (Visiting)	bioethics, particularly concerning human genetic material; constitutional, contract, intellectual, and property law	dgreenf at ucla.edu
Jennifer Mnookin	validity of forensic science in court; DNA profiling; history and sociology of science	mnookin@law.ucla.edu
John Novembre	population genetics and theory; human population genetics	jnovembre@ucla.edu
Robert Wayne	application of molecular genetic techniques to questions in systematics, population genetics, sociobiology, ancient DNA and conservation	rwayne at biology.ucla.edu

Postdoctoral Fellows
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Name	Research Interests	Email
Ruha Benjamin	socio-political implications of stem cell research; biological citizenship and its discontents; science governance and advocacy; biolabor and tissue markets; cross-national comparison of genomics initiatives; identity and identification in police work	ruha9 at ucla.edu
Cisco Sanchez	gender variance; neurological and genetic basis of transexualism; genetics of sexual orientation	fjsanchez@mednet.ucla.edu
Krishna Veeramah	human evolutionary genetics; selective pressures shaping the human genome; human history and genetic data	kveeramah at ucla.edu

Graduate Student Fellows
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Name	Research Interests	Email
Mara Buchbinder	children's health and genetics; ethnographic studies on pediatric pain; social impact of expanded newborn screening	mbuch at ucla.edu
Karen Kapheim	Behavioral ecology and genetic parameters of social evolution and cooperative behavior	kapheimk@ucla.edu
Elani Streja	genetics of inflammatory markers and the development of cerebral palsy in a Denmark cohort; racial paradoxes in survival of chronic kidney disease	elani at ucla.edu

Graduate Affiliates

Name	Research Interests	Email
Olivia Banner	race in a postracial/postgenomic era; cultural interrogations of genetic discourses of race, sex, sexuality, and disability; virus narrative	obanner@ucla.edu
Laura Foster	patent law and indigenous communities; tangible versus intangible intellectual property	lafoster@ucla.edu

Associates

Name	Department	Email
Michael Alfaro	Ecology and Evolutionary Biology	michaelalfaro at ucla.edu
Patrick Boudreault	Deaf Studies	patrick.boudreault at csun.edu
Dan Blumstein	Ecology and Evolutionary Biology	marmots at ucla.edu
Joel Braslow	Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences	jbraslow at ucla.edu
Elizabeth Bromley	Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences	ebromley at mednet.ucla.edu
Carole Browner	Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences	browner at ucla.edu
Ty Cannon	Psychology	cannon at psych.ucla.edu
Dan Fessler	Anthropology	dfessler at anthro.ucla.edu
Tony Friscia	UEI (Physiological Sciences	tonyf at ucla.edu
Patrick Geary	History	geary at ucla.edu
Jim Gimzewski	Chemistry and Nanotechnology	gim at chem.ucla.edu
Steve Hubbell	Ecology and Evolutionary Biology	shubbell at eeb.ucla.edu
Neil Malamuth	Communication Studies; Psychology	nmalamut at ucla.edu
Linda McCabe	Human Genetics	lmccabe at mednet.ucla.edu
Marcia Meldrum	History	meldrum at history.ucla.edu
Peter Nonacs	Ecology and Evolutionary Biology	pnonacs at biology.lifesci.ucla.edu
John Novembre	Ecology and Evolutionary Biology	jnovembre@ucla.edu
Elinor Ochs	Anthropology	eochs at anthro.ucla.edu
Mark Peterson	Public Policy; Political Science	markap at ucla.edu
Ted Porter	History	tporter at history.ucla.edu
Brooke Scelza	Anthropology	bscelza at anthro.ucla.edu
Seana Shiffrin	Philosophy; Law	shiffrin at law.ucla.edu
Victoria Sork	Ecology and Evolutionary Biology	vlsork at ucla.edu
Annette Stanton	Psycology, Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences	astanton at ucla.edu
Victoria Vesna	Design and Media Arts	vv at ucla.edu
Alice Wexler	Center for the Study of Women	arwexler at ucla.edu
Lynne Zucker	Sociology; Public Policy	zucker at ucla.edu