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Dorothy E. Roberts is the 14th Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor and Geor ge A. Weiss University Professor of Law & Sociology at the University of Pe nnsylvania\, with joint appointments in the Departments of Africana Studies and Sociology and the Law School\, where she is the inaugural Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights. She is also the founding director of the Penn Program on Race\, Science\, and Society. An internationally recognized scholar\, public intellectual\, and social ju stice advocate\, she has written and lectured extensively on race\, gender\ , and class inequities in U.S. institutions and has been a leader in transf orming public thinking and policy on reproductive freedom\, child welfare\, and bioethics. She is the author of Killing the Black Body: Race\, Reprodu ction\, and the Meaning of Liberty (Pantheon\, 1997/Vintage\, 2017)\, Shatt ered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfare (Basic Books\, 2001)\, and Fatal Inv ention: How Science\, Politics\, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twe nty-First Century (The New Press\, 2011)\, as well as co-editor of six book s. She has also published more than 100 articles and essays in books and sc holarly journals\, including the 2019 Foreword to Harvard Law Review’s Supr eme Court issue\, “Abolition Constitutionalism.”
Roberts’s research h as been supported by fellowships from American Council of Learned Societies \, National Science Foundation\, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation\, Brocher F oundation\, Harvard University Program in Ethics and the Professions\, Stan ford Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity\, Northwestern In stitute for Policy Research\, and the Fulbright Program. She has served on the boards of directors of the American Academy of Political and Social Sci ence\, the Black Women’s Health Imperative\, and the National Coalition for Child Protection Reform and on the advisory boards of the Center for Genet ics and Society\, Generations Ahead\, and Still She Rises. Recent recogniti ons of her work include 2019 election as a College of Physicians of Philade lphia Fellow\, 2017 election to the National Academy of Medicine\, 2016 Soc iety of Family Planning Lifetime Achievement Award\, 2015 American Psychiat ric Association Solomon Carter Fuller Award\, and 2011 election as a Hastin gs Center Fellow. Her TEDTalk\, “The Problem with Race-Based Medicine\,” ha s more than one million views.
Professor Dorthy E. Roberts pres ented the Celebration Lecture entitled\,“Dr. King’s Message on Race\, Scien ce and Justice” on January 18\, 2021 via Zoom.
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