Dr. Terence KeelDr. 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.

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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

http://www.terencekeel.com

Publications

Divine Variations: How Christian Thought Became Racial Science

Stanford University Press 2018
https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=25826