Vivette Garcia-Deister

Location

Facultad de Ciencias Office/Lab
Circuito Exterior, Cd. Universitaria - UNAM
Mexico City
04510
Mexico

Position

Professor

Biography

Vivette García-Deister is co-responsible for the S&TS laboratory at the Faculty of Sciences in Mexico’s National Autonomous University (UNAM). Her research focuses on the history of race science, the epistemologies of biomedical and forensic genetics in Mexico, and the philosophy of science in practice, as informed by ethnographic methods and critical anthropology of science. She studies the impact of biomedical and forensic genetics on issues of health, racism and justice. She is pack leader of @FieldDogs.