Duana Fullwiley

Duana Fullwiley is a literary anthropologist of science and medicine whose fieldwork with scientists, patients, and larger publics explores the interplay of genetics, health and cultural politics in Senegal, France, and the United States. She is the author of The Enculturated Gene: Sickle Cell Health Politics and Biological Difference in West Africa as well as numerous articles on ancestry genetics in the United States. The larger themes of her work have also inspired her poetic engagements with medical power, scientific legacies, and the human animal’s place in nature.

She has received awards and fellowships from the Fulbright Scholars Program to Senegal, the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, the National Science Foundation, The Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society Scholars Program at Harvard University, the Social Science Research Council and the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research. She currently teaches at Stanford University where she bridges fields of science, the medical arts and humanities in lecture courses, seminars and writing workshops.