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Spring 2026

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Historical legacies of scientific racism, racial health inequities, and neo-eugenics

Andrew Kim - Professor, Anthropology

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs     Location: Off Campus

Biotechnological innovations have forced us to reconsider the extent to which our histories and environments shape our health and biology, which has provided new perspectives on old debates from the eugenics movement such as ideas about "biological and genetic superiority", the conceptual relevance of “biological race", and threats of “degeneration...

 Social Sciences   Biological & Health Sciences

Evolutionary and developmental perspectives on lifecourse stress and Long COVID

Andrew Kim - Professor, Anthropology

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs     Location: Off Campus

This project will examine the roles of early life stress and lifecourse trauma exposure on long COVID outcomes. Long COVID is a cluster of symptoms that is known to result from a cascade of pathophysiological mechanisms that persist beyond the acute stage of SARS-CoV-2 infection. Growing research suggests...

 Social Sciences   Biological & Health Sciences

Intergenerational trauma, disease risk, and healing in Palestine

Andrew Kim - Professor, Anthropology

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs     Location: Off Campus

Israel’s genocide in Gaza has killed 7.9% of the population, and thousands of Palestinians have faced myriad forms of violence and imminent threats to life, including physical injuries from ballistics, home demolitions, and torture. These highly traumatic conditions pose severe physical and psychological threats to Palestinians and may have reverberating...

 Social Sciences   Biological & Health Sciences

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