Dr. Terence Keel
Associate Professor
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California, United States
Biography
Professor, Author, and Founding Director of the BioCritical Studies Lab
Biography
Dr. Terence Keel is an Associate Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles jointly appointed in the Department of African American Studies and the UCLA Institute for Society and Genetics in the Division of Life Sciences. He is the author of the widely acclaimed Divine Variations (Stanford University Press, 2018) and the founding director of the BioCritical Studies Lab--an interdisciplinary space committed to studying how discrimination, inequality, and resilience are embodied in human and nonhuman beings. Keel has written widely about biomedical science, religion, law, and modern thought. He is the Advisor for Structural Competency and Innovation for the UCLA Simulation Center at the David Geffen School of Medicine. Keel holds BA in Theology from Xavier University, a Master of Theological Studies from Harvard Divinity School, and a PhD from Harvard University.
Honoraria Titles
Major Prizes
Religion, Philosophy & History Interests
Christianity-Catholicism, Christianity-Orthodoxy, Christianity-Protestantism, Ethics, History of Religion, History of Science, Philosophy of Religion
Science & Technology Interests
Anthropology, Biology, Biotechnology, Evolution, Genetics, Human Origins, Medicine & Health, Psychology
Website
Publications
Divine Variations: How Christian Thought Became Racial Science
Stanford University Press 2018
https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=25826
